[PATCH v2 6/8] powerpc/pseries: Distinguish between a os-partition and non-os partition

Aruna Balakrishnaiah aruna at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Apr 24 16:20:34 EST 2013


Introduce os_partition member in nvram_os_partition structure to identify
if the partition is an os partition or not. This will be useful to handle
non-os partitions of-config and common.

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah <aruna at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto at us.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c
index 8a7eefb..b118382 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c
@@ -53,20 +53,23 @@ struct nvram_os_partition {
 	int min_size;	/* minimum acceptable size (0 means req_size) */
 	long size;	/* size of data portion (excluding err_log_info) */
 	long index;	/* offset of data portion of partition */
+	bool os_partition; /* partition initialized by OS, not FW */
 };
 
 static struct nvram_os_partition rtas_log_partition = {
 	.name = "ibm,rtas-log",
 	.req_size = 2079,
 	.min_size = 1055,
-	.index = -1
+	.index = -1,
+	.os_partition = true
 };
 
 static struct nvram_os_partition oops_log_partition = {
 	.name = "lnx,oops-log",
 	.req_size = 4000,
 	.min_size = 2000,
-	.index = -1
+	.index = -1,
+	.os_partition = true
 };
 
 static const char *pseries_nvram_os_partitions[] = {



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