Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755778Ab3FAEua (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jun 2013 00:50:30 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:44603 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751427Ab3FAEuX (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jun 2013 00:50:23 -0400 Message-ID: <1370062185.3766.27.camel@pasglop> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/8] powerpc/pseries: Read rtas partition via pstore From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Aruna Balakrishnaiah Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com, tony.luck@intel.com, ananth@in.ibm.com, mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, ccross@android.com, anton@samba.org, cbouatmailru@gmail.com, keescook@chromium.org Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 14:49:45 +1000 In-Reply-To: <20130425101851.21017.90041.stgit@aruna-ThinkPad-T420> References: <20130425100952.21017.51799.stgit@aruna-ThinkPad-T420> <20130425101851.21017.90041.stgit@aruna-ThinkPad-T420> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1153 Lines: 36 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... Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/