linux-kernel - Re: [Tech-board-discuss] [PATCH v2] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology

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Message-ID: <20200708093018.GA4655@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 8 Jul 2020 10:30:18 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     corbet@....net, ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        tech-board-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        Chris Mason <clm@...clm>, Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Tech-board-discuss] [PATCH v2] CodingStyle: Inclusive
 Terminology

On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 12:23:59AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Linux maintains a coding-style and its own idiomatic set of terminology.
> Update the style guidelines to recommend replacements for the terms
> master/slave and blacklist/whitelist.

Reviwed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>

> +'host/{device,proxy}', or 'leader/{performer,follower}'. Recommended

We could have controller as well as host.

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