Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/5] bonding: rename bond components

Jakub Kicinski
2020-11-07T02:44:35Z

On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 15:04:31 -0500 Jarod Wilson wrote:
> The bonding driver's use of master and slave, while largely understood
> in technical circles, poses a barrier for inclusion to some potential
> members of the development and user community, due to the historical
> context of masters and slaves, particularly in the United States. This
> is a first full pass at replacing those phrases with more socially
> inclusive ones, opting for bond to replace master and port to
> replace slave, which is congruent with the bridge and team drivers.

If we decide to go ahead with this, we should probably also use it as
an opportunity to clean up the more egregious checkpatch warnings, WDYT?

Plan minimum - don't add new ones ;)