lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <1500408519.2042.23.camel@hpe.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2017 20:17:53 +0000
From:   "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@....com>
To:     "bp@...en8.de" <bp@...en8.de>
CC:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "mchehab@...nel.org" <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        "rjw@...ysocki.net" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        "srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com" 
        <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
        "lenb@...nel.org" <lenb@...nel.org>,
        "linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI / blacklist: add acpi_match_oemlist() interface

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

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ