Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] [PATCH v2] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology

Shuah Khan
2020-07-08T16:43:19Z

On 7/8/20 1:23 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> Linux maintains a coding-style and its own idiomatic set of terminology.
> Update the style guidelines to recommend replacements for the terms
> master/slave and blacklist/whitelist.
>
> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/159389297140.2210796.13590142254668787525.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.clm>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> ---
> Changes since v1 [1]
> - Drop inclusive-terminology.rst, it is in the lore archives if the
> arguments are needed for future debates, but otherwise no pressing
> need to carry it in the tree (Linus, James)
>
> - Update the recommended terms to include replacement for 'master' and
> 'whitelist' (Kees, Andy)
>
> - Add 'target' as a replacement (Andy)
>
> - Add 'device' as a replacement (Mark)
>
> - Collect acks and signed-off-bys. Yes, the sign-offs are not reflective
> of a submission chain, but I kept "Signed-off-by" if people offered
> it.
>

Dan,

Looks like you missed my Signed-off I sent for v1

Please add my Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

thanks,
-- Shuah