powerpc/pseries: Read common partition via pstore

This patch exploits pstore subsystem to read details of common partition
in NVRAM to a separate file in /dev/pstore. For instance, common partition
details will be stored in a file named [common-nvram-6].

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah <aruna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Aruna Balakrishnaiah
2013-06-06 00:22:20 +05:30
committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
parent f33f748c96
commit a5e4797b0f
3 changed files with 20 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ enum pstore_type_id {
/* PPC64 partition types */
PSTORE_TYPE_PPC_RTAS = 4,
PSTORE_TYPE_PPC_OF = 5,
PSTORE_TYPE_PPC_COMMON = 6,
PSTORE_TYPE_UNKNOWN = 255
};