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efi: Add support for using efivars as a pstore backend
authorMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:57:56 +0000 (16:57 -0400)
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:15:04 +0000 (16:15 -0700)
commit5ee9c198a4208d7760275d48e4c4f6c89dcd2ef0
tree19f0c26f13df5302432afd1e870f357fa009b990tree | snapshot
parentdee28e72b619b48ec80a9e5509db458dbe66f71fcommit | diff
efi: Add support for using efivars as a pstore backend

EFI provides an area of nonvolatile storage managed by the firmware. We
can use this as a pstore backend to maintain copies of oopses, aiding
diagnosis.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
drivers/firmware/efivars.c diff | blob | history
include/linux/efi.h diff | blob | history
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