From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,objecting@objecting.org,hlcj1234567@gmail.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: + lib-glob-fix-grammar-and-replace-non-inclusive-terminology.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:20:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260301192011.EA874C116C6@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The patch titled
Subject: lib: glob: fix grammar and replace non-inclusive terminology
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is
lib-glob-fix-grammar-and-replace-non-inclusive-terminology.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/lib-glob-fix-grammar-and-replace-non-inclusive-terminology.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Josh Law <hlcj1234567@gmail.com>
Subject: lib: glob: fix grammar and replace non-inclusive terminology
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2026 15:45:53 +0000
Fix a missing article ('a') in the comment describing the glob
implementation, and replace 'blacklists' with 'denylists' to align with
the kernel's inclusive terminology guidelines.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260301154553.2592681-1-objecting@objecting.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
lib/glob.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/lib/glob.c~lib-glob-fix-grammar-and-replace-non-inclusive-terminology
+++ a/lib/glob.c
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("Dual MIT/GPL");
* Pattern metacharacters are ?, *, [ and \.
* (And, inside character classes, !, - and ].)
*
- * This is small and simple implementation intended for device blacklists
+ * This is a small and simple implementation intended for device denylists
* where a string is matched against a number of patterns. Thus, it
* does not preprocess the patterns. It is non-recursive, and run-time
* is at most quadratic: strlen(@str)*strlen(@pat).
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hlcj1234567@gmail.com are
lib-glob-add-missing-spdx-license-identifier.patch
lib-glob-fix-grammar-and-replace-non-inclusive-terminology.patch
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