pvpanic: pvpanic device driver

pvpanic device is a qemu simulated device through which guest panic
event is sent to host.

Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig b/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
index 3338437b559b..85772616efbf 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
@@ -781,4 +781,12 @@ config APPLE_GMUX
           graphics as well as the backlight. Currently only backlight
           control is supported by the driver.
 
+config PVPANIC
+        tristate "pvpanic device support"
+        depends on ACPI
+        ---help---
+          This driver provides support for the pvpanic device.  pvpanic is
+          a paravirtualized device provided by QEMU; it lets a virtual machine
+          (guest) communicate panic events to the host.
+
 endif # X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES