Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI / blacklist: add acpi_match_oemlist() interface

From	"Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI / blacklist: add acpi_match_oemlist() interface
Date	2017-07-18 22:20 +0200
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On Tue, 2017-07-18 at 21:32 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 06:49:51PM +0000, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote:
> > ghes_edac uses this structure as a while-list, so the term backlist
> > is misleading.
> 
> So this matching function gets both blacklists and whitelists. No
> wonder it is confusing. Now I finally understand what you wanna do:
> you want to call all those lists something agnostic as platform_list
> or so because they contain exactly that: platforms - not OEMs.

Right.

> And then you want to match *platforms*. *Not* OEMs.

True, there is some stretch to use OEMIDs for detecting platforms.  But
we do not have other standard interfaces better than this one.

> *Now* I understand what you're trying to tell me.

:-)

Thanks,
-Toshi

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Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI / blacklist: add acpi_match_oemlist() interface "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2017-07-18 17:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI / blacklist: add acpi_match_oemlist() interface Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-07-18 18:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI / blacklist: add acpi_match_oemlist() interface "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2017-07-18 19:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI / blacklist: add acpi_match_oemlist() interface Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-07-18 19:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI / blacklist: add acpi_match_oemlist() interface "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2017-07-18 21:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI / blacklist: add acpi_match_oemlist() interface Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-07-18 21:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI / blacklist: add acpi_match_oemlist() interface "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2017-07-18 22:20 +0200

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