linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v3] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology

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Message-ID: <s5hlfjnzvu7.wl-tiwai@suse.de>
Date:   Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:02:24 +0200
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     corbet@....net, ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        tech-board-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
        Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v3] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology

On Wed, 08 Jul 2020 20:14:27 +0200,
Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> +Recommended replacements for 'blacklist/whitelist' are:
> +    'denylist / allowlist'
> +    'blocklist / passlist'

I started looking through the tree now and noticed there are lots of
patterns like "whitelisted" or "blacklisted".  How can the words fit
for those?  Actually, there are two cases like:

- Foo is blacklisted
- Allow to load the non-whitelisted cards

Currently I'm replacing the former with "Foo is in denylist", but not
sure about the latter case.  I thought Kees mentioned about this, but
don't remember the proposal...

In anyway, I'm for the action:
  Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>


thanks,

Takashi