[git pull] pstore changes

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Mon Aug 01 2011 - 12:57:01 EST


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

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