From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
To: "bp@alien8.de" <bp@alien8.de>
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Subject: [1/3] ACPI / blacklist: add acpi_match_oemlist() interface
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 20:17:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1500408519.2042.23.camel@hpe.com> (raw)
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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2017-07-18 20:17 Toshi Kani [this message]
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