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| author | Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> | 2011-07-21 16:57:55 -0400 |
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| committer | Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> | 2011-07-22 16:14:39 -0700 |
| commit | dee28e72b619b48ec80a9e5509db458dbe66f71f (patch) | |
| tree | 781ef74fc42193f05877af53fe0787d175181bd7 /Documentation | |
| parent | b94fdd077eef5e6cab56836bf62695b497946716 (diff) | |
pstore: Allow the user to explicitly choose a backend
pstore only allows one backend to be registered at present, but the
system may provide several. Add a parameter to allow the user to choose
which backend will be used rather than just relying on load order.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore b/Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore index ddf451ee2a0..ff1df4e3b05 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore @@ -39,3 +39,9 @@ Description: Generic interface to platform dependent persistent storage. multiple) files based on the record size of the underlying persistent storage until at least this amount is reached. Default is 10 Kbytes. + + Pstore only supports one backend at a time. If multiple + backends are available, the preferred backend may be + set by passing the pstore.backend= argument to the kernel at + boot time. + diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index aa47be71df4..8789d0c9291 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2151,6 +2151,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). + pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use + pt. [PARIDE] See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. |