linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] [PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology

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Message-ID: <8c0c1050-3beb-86f6-f184-4687acffd61d@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 6 Jul 2020 13:15:38 +0200
From:   "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy6545@...il.com>
Cc:     mtk.manpages@...il.com,
        ksummit <ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        tech-board-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        Chris Mason <clm@...clm>, expensivestephen@...mail.com
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] [PATCH] CodingStyle:
 Inclusive Terminology

On 7/5/20 3:10 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 08:10:33PM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> Left-right tree makes no sense. It doesn't distinguish the rbtree from its
>> predecessor the avl tree.  I don't think it's helpful to rename a standard
>> piece of computing terminology unless it's actually hurting us to have it.
>> Obviously if it were called a "master-slave" tree, I would be in favour of
>> renaming it.
> 
> (No one has suggested renaming red/black trees, so I think the
> slippery-slope argument can be set aside here.)
> 
> As for the actual proposal on white/black-list, I've always been annoyed
> by the poor description it provides (and I get to see it A LOT being
> the seccomp maintainer). I welcome allow/deny-list (though the change is
> not new for seccomp -- the man pages were updated last year (thanks
> mkerrisk). :)

Actually, the manual pages are ahead of the game only thanks to
a nice presentation last year @OSS from Stephen Kenigbolo :-).


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
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