From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753462Ab1HAQ47 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2011 12:56:59 -0400 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:34381 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752150Ab1HAQ4x (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2011 12:56:53 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,301,1309762800"; d="scan'208";a="32918489" From: "Luck, Tony" To: "Linus Torvalds" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [git pull] pstore changes Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:56:52 -0700 Message-Id: <4e36dad425294f12e2@agluck-desktop.sc.intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Linus, please pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git pstore-efi This will update the files shown below - adding a new pstore backend that uses EFI variables as persistant storage. Thanks! -Tony Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore | 6 + Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 + 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 +- 9 files changed, 296 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) 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