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

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Date:   Tue, 7 Jul 2020 10:36:45 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        ksummit <ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        tech-board-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        Chris Mason <clm@...clm>
Subject: Re: [Tech-board-discuss] [PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology

On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 09:08:57PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 12:16 PM Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:

> > This, especially the bit about "revelation of 2020", sounds a little
> > off to me - I think it's that it's worryingly close to the frequently
> > derided pattern where people recognise a problem that other people have
> > been talking about for a while and treat it as something new.  Perhaps a
> > more neutrally worded reference to current events and/or our desire to
> > improve instead?

> I'd just as soon let this commentary live in the archives if people
> need some more background. It's not like we have companion essays on
> the other recommendations in coding-style, and we seem to be
> converging on just amending coding-style.

That's even better from my point of view.

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