[git pull] pstore + ia64 changes

[git pull] pstore + ia64 changes

[Luck, Tony]

Hi Linus,

please pull from:

	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git release

This will update the files shown below.

Thanks!

-Tony

 Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore    |    6 +
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    2 +
 arch/ia64/Kconfig                   |    4 +
 arch/ia64/include/asm/gpio.h        |   55 ++++++++
 drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c            |   20 ++-
 drivers/firmware/efivars.c          |  243 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 fs/pstore/inode.c                   |   12 +-
 fs/pstore/internal.h                |    2 +-
 fs/pstore/platform.c                |   30 +++-
 include/linux/efi.h                 |    6 +
 include/linux/pstore.h              |    9 +-
 11 files changed, 355 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/ia64/include/asm/gpio.h

Mark Brown (1):
      [IA64] Hook up gpiolib support

Matthew Garrett (5):
      pstore: Extend API for more flexibility in new backends
      pstore: Add extra context for writes and erases
      pstore: Make "part" unsigned
      pstore: Allow the user to explicitly choose a backend
      efi: Add support for using efivars as a pstore backend

Mike Waychison (4):
      efivars: String functions
      efivars: introduce utf16_strncmp
      efivars: Use string functions in pstore_write
      efivars: Introduce PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES

Re: [git pull] pstore + ia64 changes

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
>
> please pull from:
>
>        git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git release
>
> This will update the files shown below.

Is there any reason why ia64 changes are in the same branch as pstore?

It seems totally illogical, and against all the normal "topic branch" rules.

       Linus