Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Recommend blocklist/allowlist instead of blacklist/whitelist

Joe Perches
2020-06-10T07:08:19Z

On Wed, 2020-06-10 at 08:52 +0200, SeongJae Park wrote:
> This patchset 1) adds support of deprecated terms in the 'checkpatch.pl'
> and 2) set the 'blacklist' and 'whitelist' as deprecated with
> replacement suggestion of 'blocklist' and 'allowlist', because the
> suggestions are incontrovertible, doesn't make people hurt, and more
> self-explanatory.

I don't care for the politics of the patch myself.

From a technical perspective, it may be better to
have a single routine for both spelling and whatever
this is called.