Merge branch 'pstore-efi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6

* 'pstore-efi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  efivars: Introduce PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES
  efivars: Use string functions in pstore_write
  efivars: introduce utf16_strncmp
  efivars: String functions
  efi: Add support for using efivars as a pstore backend
  pstore: Allow the user to explicitly choose a backend
  pstore: Make "part" unsigned
  pstore: Add extra context for writes and erases
  pstore: Extend API for more flexibility in new backends
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Linus Torvalds
2011-08-01 13:40:51 -10:00
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@@ -39,3 +39,9 @@ Description: Generic interface to platform dependent persistent storage.
multiple) files based on the record size of the underlying
persistent storage until at least this amount is reached.
Default is 10 Kbytes.
Pstore only supports one backend at a time. If multiple
backends are available, the preferred backend may be
set by passing the pstore.backend= argument to the kernel at
boot time.