From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D82D5C433E0 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:32:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCE082076A for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:32:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728276AbgGKNa4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jul 2020 09:30:56 -0400 Received: from jabberwock.ucw.cz ([46.255.230.98]:34278 "EHLO jabberwock.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726867AbgGKNa4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jul 2020 09:30:56 -0400 Received: by jabberwock.ucw.cz (Postfix, from userid 1017) id A696E1C0BD2; Sat, 11 Jul 2020 15:30:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 15:30:52 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Dan Williams Cc: corbet@lwn.net, Randy Dunlap , Dave Airlie , Kees Cook , SeongJae Park , Olof Johansson , Chris Mason , Greg Kroah-Hartman , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tech-board-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology Message-ID: <20200711133052.GA6407@amd> References: <159419296487.2464622.863943877093636532.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <159419296487.2464622.863943877093636532.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed 2020-07-08 00:23:59, 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. >=20 > +replacements for 'blacklist/whitelist' are: 'denylist/allowlist' or > +'blocklist/passlist'. I don't see what is "non inclusive" about blacklist and whitelist... Plus, please grep kernel for actual usages. blocklist/denylist is _not_ suitable replacement for kernel use of blacklist. Pavel --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAl8JvwwACgkQMOfwapXb+vKaeACdEuEPBbuseLU7rRRWibY5FYQ8 /BEAnRKhc9QvpKTqxo3q27Du59cpsTcJ =siog -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2--