RE: [PATCH v4 0/8] Nvram-to-pstore

2013-06-19 Thread Luck, Tony
> You need to mount pstore to access the files. > > # mkdir /dev/pstore > # mount -t pstore - /dev/pstore > > to unmount > > # umount /dev/pstore > > References: http://lwn.net/Articles/421297/ Note that /dev/pstore has fallen out of fashion as the mount point ... we now (since 3.9) suggest /

Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] Nvram-to-pstore

2013-06-18 Thread Michael Neuling
Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On Wednesday 19 June 2013 11:45 AM, Michael Neuling wrote: > > Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote: > >> Currently the kernel provides the contents of p-series NVRAM only as a > >> simple stream of bytes via /dev/nvram, which must be interpreted in user > >>

Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] Nvram-to-pstore

2013-06-18 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
Hi Michael, On Wednesday 19 June 2013 11:45 AM, Michael Neuling wrote: Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote: Currently the kernel provides the contents of p-series NVRAM only as a simple stream of bytes via /dev/nvram, which must be interpreted in user space by the nvram command in the powerpc-utils pac

Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] Nvram-to-pstore

2013-06-18 Thread Michael Neuling
Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote: > Currently the kernel provides the contents of p-series NVRAM only as a > simple stream of bytes via /dev/nvram, which must be interpreted in user > space by the nvram command in the powerpc-utils package. This patch set > exploits the pstore subsystem to expose each p

[PATCH v4 0/8] Nvram-to-pstore

2013-06-05 Thread Aruna Balakrishnaiah
Currently the kernel provides the contents of p-series NVRAM only as a simple stream of bytes via /dev/nvram, which must be interpreted in user space by the nvram command in the powerpc-utils package. This patch set exploits the pstore subsystem to expose each partition in NVRAM as a separate file