[GIT PULL] pstore fixes for 3.8 merge window

[GIT PULL] pstore fixes for 3.8 merge window

[Luck, Tony]

The following changes since commit 9489e9dcae718d5fde988e4a684a0f55b5f94d17:

  Linux 3.7-rc7 (2012-11-25 17:59:19 -0800)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux.git tags/please-pull-pstore_mevent

for you to fetch changes up to f94ec0c0594ef73ab3a2f1f32735aca8ddaf65e2:

  efi_pstore: Add a format check for an existing variable name at erasing time (2012-11-26 16:08:37 -0800)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Patch series to allow EFI variable backend to pstore
to hold multiple records.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Seiji Aguchi (7):
      efi_pstore: Check remaining space with QueryVariableInfo() before writing data
      efi_pstore: Add a logic erasing entries to an erase callback
      efi_pstore: Remove a logic erasing entries from a write callback to hold multiple logs
      efi_pstore: Add ctime to argument of erase callback
      efi_pstore: Add a sequence counter to a variable name
      efi_pstore: Add a format check for an existing variable name at reading time
      efi_pstore: Add a format check for an existing variable name at erasing time

 drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c   |   16 ++---
 drivers/firmware/efivars.c |  163 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 fs/pstore/inode.c          |    7 +-
 fs/pstore/internal.h       |    2 +-
 fs/pstore/platform.c       |   13 ++--
 fs/pstore/ram.c            |    9 ++-
 include/linux/efi.h        |    1 +
 include/linux/pstore.h     |    6 +-
 8 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)