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spamdiagnosticoutput: 1:99 spamdiagnosticmetadata: NSPM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-originalarrivaltime: 18 Jul 2017 18:49:51.5774 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-fromentityheader: Hosted X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-id: 105b2061-b669-4b31-92ac-24d304d195dc X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: DF4PR84MB0188 X-OriginatorOrg: hpe.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by nfs id v6IIond1026150 Content-Length: 855 Lines: 24 On Tue, 2017-07-18 at 19:42 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 05:24:50PM +0000, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote: > > Well, a list does not need to be a black-list. > > But this one *is* a blacklist. Right. Hence, acpi_backlisted() still declares the list as 'acpi_blacklist[]'. > > So, I tried to avoid putting any usage to the structure name. > > So OEM is a usage. The moment you need to use it for something else > besides an OEM, it is not an OEM list anymore - it is a generic > blacklist which blacklists OEMs too. The term "oem" represents data types of the structure, oem_id[], oem_table_id[], and oem_revision, which are defined by the ACPI spec. ghes_edac uses this structure as a while-list, so the term backlist is misleading. intel_pstate also uses it to list the platforms that do not need OS control. Thanks, -Toshi