pstore changes

Hi Linus,

please pull from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git pstore-efi

This will update the files shown below - adding a new pstore backend that uses EFI variables as persistant storage.

Thanks!

-Tony

 Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore    |    6 +
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    2 +
 drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c            |   20 ++-
 drivers/firmware/efivars.c          |  243 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 fs/pstore/inode.c                   |   12 +-
 fs/pstore/internal.h                |    2 +-
 fs/pstore/platform.c                |   30 +++-
 include/linux/efi.h                 |    6 +
 include/linux/pstore.h              |    9 +-
 9 files changed, 296 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

Matthew Garrett (5):
pstore: Extend API for more flexibility in new backends
pstore: Add extra context for writes and erases
pstore: Make "part" unsigned
pstore: Allow the user to explicitly choose a backend
efi: Add support for using efivars as a pstore backend

Mike Waychison (4):
efivars: String functions
efivars: introduce utf16_strncmp
efivars: Use string functions in pstore_write
efivars: Introduce PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES