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

[Kani, Toshimitsu]

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