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>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/misc/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/Kconfig
index 1921b8dbb242..ce67d973d349 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/misc/Kconfig
@@ -420,4 +420,17 @@ config SGI_XP
           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