Re: [PATCH v3 5/8] powerpc/pseries: Read rtas partition via pstore

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Sat, 2013-06-01 at 14:49 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 15:48 +0530, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote:
> > This patch set exploits the pstore subsystem to read details of rtas partition
> > in NVRAM to a separate file in /dev/pstore. For instance, rtas details will be
> > stored in a file named [rtas-nvram-4].
> > 
>  .../...
> 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/pstore.h b/include/linux/pstore.h
> > index 75d0176..d7a8fe9 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/pstore.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/pstore.h
> > @@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ enum pstore_type_id {
> >  	PSTORE_TYPE_MCE		= 1,
> >  	PSTORE_TYPE_CONSOLE	= 2,
> >  	PSTORE_TYPE_FTRACE	= 3,
> > +	/* PPC64 partition types */
> > +	PSTORE_TYPE_PPC_RTAS	= 4,
> >  	PSTORE_TYPE_UNKNOWN	= 255
> >  };
> >  
> 
> Not sure about that list...
> 
> What do you mean by "RTAS" ? The error logs ? What about our "common"
> partition (firmware settings ?). We should probably at least define
> a generic PSTORE_TYPE_FIRMWARE for firmware private stuff...

Scrap it, I just noticed your next patch doing that,... see comment
there.

Cheers,
Ben.