misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)

This driver is a logical device which provides an
interface between the hypervisor and a management
partition. This interface is like a message
passing interface. This management partition
is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based
system management.

VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic
logical partition functions:
- Logical Partition Configuration
- Boot, start, and stop actions for individual
  partitions
- Display of partition status
- Management of virtual Ethernet
- Management of virtual Storage
- Basic system management

This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual
Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC
platform. It provides a character device which
allows for both request/response and async message
support through the /dev/ibmvmc node.

Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

drivers/misc/Kconfig

@@ -113,6 +113,20 @@ config IBM_ASM
 	  for information on the specific driver level and support statement
 	  for your IBM server.
 
+config IBMVMC
+	tristate "IBM Virtual Management Channel support"
+	depends on PPC_PSERIES
+	help
+	  This is the IBM POWER Virtual Management Channel
+
+	  This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual
+	  Management Channel virtual adapter on the PowerVM
+	  platform. It provides both request/response and
+	  async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node.
+
+	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
+	  module will be called ibmvmc.
+
 config PHANTOM
 	tristate "Sensable PHANToM (PCI)"
 	depends on PCI