HP iLO driver
A driver for the HP iLO/iLO2 management processor, which allows userspace
programs to query the management processor. Programs can open a channel
to the device (/dev/hpilo/dXccbN), and use this to send/receive queries.
The O_EXCL open flag is used to indicate that a particular channel cannot
be shared between processes. This driver will replace various packages
HP has shipped, including hprsm and hp-ilo.
Signed-off-by: David Altobelli <david.altobelli@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/misc/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/Kconfig
index 1921b8d..ce67d97 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/misc/Kconfig
@@ -420,4 +420,17 @@
this feature will allow for direct communication between SSIs
based on a network adapter and DMA messaging.
+config HP_ILO
+ tristate "Channel interface driver for HP iLO/iLO2 processor"
+ default n
+ help
+ The channel interface driver allows applications to communicate
+ with iLO/iLO2 management processors present on HP ProLiant
+ servers. Upon loading, the driver creates /dev/hpilo/dXccbN files,
+ which can be used to gather data from the management processor,
+ via read and write system calls.
+
+ To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
+ module will be called hpilo.
+
endif # MISC_DEVICES
