From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI / blacklist: add acpi_match_oemlist() interface Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:32:08 +0200 Message-ID: <20170718193208.GA23126@nazgul.tnic> References: <20170717215912.26070-1-toshi.kani@hpe.com> <20170717215912.26070-2-toshi.kani@hpe.com> <20170718053455.GA8736@nazgul.tnic> <1500392379.2042.13.camel@hpe.com> <20170718164350.GB22334@nazgul.tnic> <1500398136.2042.17.camel@hpe.com> <20170718174245.GA22817@nazgul.tnic> <1500403237.2042.19.camel@hpe.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([5.9.137.197]:43040 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751485AbdGRTc0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:32:26 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1500403237.2042.19.camel@hpe.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Kani, Toshimitsu" Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "mchehab@kernel.org" , "rjw@rjwysocki.net" , "srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com" , "lenb@kernel.org" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" 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. And then you want to match *platforms*. *Not* OEMs. *Now* I understand what you're trying to tell me. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. --