From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751984Ab1ICF3A (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Sep 2011 01:29:00 -0400 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([143.182.124.37]:22272 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751625Ab1ICF26 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Sep 2011 01:28:58 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.68,323,1312182000"; d="scan'208";a="13708582" From: Chen Gong To: tony.luck@intel.com, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: pstore: enhancement for pstore write interface Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 13:30:15 +0800 Message-Id: <1315027817-5316-1-git-send-email-gong.chen@linux.intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.7.rc0.70.g82660 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [PATCH 1/2] pstore: change the purpose of return value for pstore [PATCH 2/2] pstore: update the policy of the UEFI-based backend These two patches are for pstore write interface enhancement. The 1st one updates the original write interface to return a valid write result. The 2nd one updates the UEFI-based pstore backend write policy. For the 2nd one, though Matthew current design is to reduce UEFI variable space usage, but I think it is still too strict as a log storage. :-)