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

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Message-ID: <CAFhKne9vswg3Q4mTOz4WP6QWJ8tDH+SNx1Pu7LotLagoNURKgw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 6 Jul 2020 08:51:03 -0400
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy6545@...il.com>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Chris Mason <clm@...clm>,
        tech-board-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        ksummit <ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 3:54 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 9:22 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:10:37PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 04 2020, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > Another suggestion for "slave" replacement should be "device". This is in
> > > > the context of the w1 bus which is by far the largest user of the
> > > > master/slave terminology in the kernel.
>
> W1 the largest? Really?

I should have said "most obnoxious".  They managed to put that terminology in
filenames, eg drivers/w1/slaves and Documentation/w1/slaves

In terms of number of lines of code using the word, it's only seventh
in drivers/:

$ for i in drivers/*; do c=$(find $i -type f |xargs grep slave |wc
-l); echo "$c $i"; done |sort -rn |head
5218 drivers/net
1341 drivers/dma
988 drivers/i2c
695 drivers/gpu
666 drivers/soundwire
665 drivers/spi
559 drivers/w1
461 drivers/infiniband
389 drivers/media
301 drivers/scsi