From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:36:58 +1000 From: Michael Ellerman To: Aruna Balakrishnaiah Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Nvram-to-pstore Message-ID: <20130415073657.GD30156@concordia> References: <20130410071835.20150.56489.stgit@aruna-ThinkPad-T420> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20130410071835.20150.56489.stgit@aruna-ThinkPad-T420> Cc: jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:50:47PM +0530, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote: > Currently the kernel provides the contents of p-series NVRAM only as a > simple stream of bytes via /dev/nvram, which must be interpreted in user > space by the nvram command in the powerpc-utils package. This patch set > exploits the pstore subsystem to expose each partition in NVRAM as a > separate file in /dev/pstore. For instance Oops messages will stored in a > file named [dmesg-nvram-2]. Please try to fold some of that info into the commit messages for actual patches. The 0th patch is lost when we commit the series into git. Also all your patches should have a subject starting with "powerpc/pseries:". cheers From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754232Ab3DOHhB (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:37:01 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:52402 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750847Ab3DOHhA (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:37:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:36:58 +1000 From: Michael Ellerman To: Aruna Balakrishnaiah Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, anton@samba.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Nvram-to-pstore Message-ID: <20130415073657.GD30156@concordia> References: <20130410071835.20150.56489.stgit@aruna-ThinkPad-T420> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130410071835.20150.56489.stgit@aruna-ThinkPad-T420> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:50:47PM +0530, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote: > Currently the kernel provides the contents of p-series NVRAM only as a > simple stream of bytes via /dev/nvram, which must be interpreted in user > space by the nvram command in the powerpc-utils package. This patch set > exploits the pstore subsystem to expose each partition in NVRAM as a > separate file in /dev/pstore. For instance Oops messages will stored in a > file named [dmesg-nvram-2]. Please try to fold some of that info into the commit messages for actual patches. The 0th patch is lost when we commit the series into git. Also all your patches should have a subject starting with "powerpc/pseries:". cheers