uio-hv-generic: new userspace i/o driver for VMBus

This is a new driver to enable userspace networking on VMBus.
It is based largely on the similar driver that already exists
for PCI, and earlier work done by Brocade to support DPDK.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/uio/Kconfig b/drivers/uio/Kconfig
index 52c98ce1b6fe..7e8dc78a9796 100644
--- a/drivers/uio/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/uio/Kconfig
@@ -155,4 +155,13 @@ config UIO_MF624
 
           If you compile this as a module, it will be called uio_mf624.
 
+config UIO_HV_GENERIC
+        tristate "Generic driver for Hyper-V VMBus"
+        depends on HYPERV
+        help
+          Generic driver that you can bind, dynamically, to any
+          Hyper-V VMBus device. It is useful to provide direct access
+          to network and storage devices from userspace.
+
+          If you compile this as a module, it will be called uio_hv_generic.
 endif