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| author | Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> | 2010-03-01 14:19:05 -0800 |
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| committer | Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> | 2010-03-01 14:19:05 -0800 |
| commit | d702d12167a2c05a346f49aac7a311d597762495 (patch) | |
| tree | baae42c299cce34d6df24b5d01f8b1d0b481bd9a /drivers/char/Kconfig | |
| parent | 9418c65f9bd861d0f7e39aab9cfb3aa6f2275d11 (diff) | |
| parent | ac0f6f927db539e03e1f3f61bcd4ed57d5cde7a9 (diff) | |
Merge with mainline to remove plat-omap/Kconfig conflict
Conflicts:
arch/arm/plat-omap/Kconfig
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/Kconfig | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig index e023682be2c4..3141dd3b6e53 100644 --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig @@ -666,6 +666,14 @@ config VIRTIO_CONSOLE help Virtio console for use with lguest and other hypervisors. + Also serves as a general-purpose serial device for data + transfer between the guest and host. Character devices at + /dev/vportNpn will be created when corresponding ports are + found, where N is the device number and n is the port number + within that device. If specified by the host, a sysfs + attribute called 'name' will be populated with a name for + the port which can be used by udev scripts to create a + symlink to the device. config HVCS tristate "IBM Hypervisor Virtual Console Server support" |