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

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Message-ID: <20200709161351.GF4960@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 9 Jul 2020 17:13:51 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        Tibor Raschko <tibrasch@...il.com>,
        ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        tech-board-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        Chris Mason <clm@...clm>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Tech-board-discuss] [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH] CodingStyle:
 Inclusive Terminology

On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 10:01:18AM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 7/9/20 4:43 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:

> > For coherency, if "blacklist/whitelist" won't be used anymore, an
> > alternative to graylist should also be provided.

> What is "graylist"? Does it mean in between allow/deny?

Yes.  Typically it's used in situations where you don't want to deny
something but might for example want to do extra checks to verify that
things are OK.

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