Messages in this thread | | | From | "Kani, Toshimitsu" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI / blacklist: add acpi_match_oemlist() interface | Date | Tue, 18 Jul 2017 20:17:53 +0000 |
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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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