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

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Message-ID: <d086a1a412de3079cefbfb15f38c4dc9aae0045d.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Tue, 09 Jun 2020 18:35:46 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
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 Tue, 2020-06-09 at 14:25 +0200, 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.

nack.  Spelling is for typos not for politics.

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