linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] scripts/spelling: Recommend blocklist/allowlist instead of blacklist/whitelist

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Message-ID: <b16e47c9-db60-4d20-6e72-bf0b5ab29a38@suse.cz>
Date:   Wed, 10 Jun 2020 10:50:24 +0200
From:   Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:     SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     colin.king@...onical.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts/spelling: Recommend blocklist/allowlist
 instead of blacklist/whitelist

On 09. 06. 20, 14:25, SeongJae Park wrote:
> From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>
> 
> This commit recommends the patches to replace 'blacklist' and
> 'whitelist' with the 'blocklist' and 'allowlist', because the new
> suggestions are incontrovertible, doesn't make people hurt, and more
> self-explanatory.

Sorry, but no, it's definitely not.

> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>
> ---
>  scripts/spelling.txt | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/spelling.txt b/scripts/spelling.txt
> index d9cd24cf0d40..ea785568d8b8 100644
> --- a/scripts/spelling.txt
> +++ b/scripts/spelling.txt
> @@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ beter||better
>  betweeen||between
>  bianries||binaries
>  bitmast||bitmask
> +blacklist||blocklist

Blocklist means a list of blocks here.

>  boardcast||broadcast
>  borad||board
>  boundry||boundary
> @@ -1495,6 +1496,7 @@ whcih||which
>  whenver||whenever
>  wheter||whether
>  whe||when
> +whitelist||allowlist

Wut? allowlist I am seeing for the 1st time.

Some purists, linguists, and politicians are true fellows at times, or
at least they think so. This comes in waves and even if they try hard,
people won't adopt their nonsense. Like we, Czechs, still call piano by
German Klavier, and not břinkoklapka, suggested in 19th century (among
many others) by the horny extremists.

Shall we stop using black, white, blue, and other colors only because
they relate to skin color of avatars now? I doubt that.

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs