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

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2007131043070.2322@hadrien>
Date:   Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:43:28 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
cc:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        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 Mon, 13 Jul 2020, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> 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

In the denylist?

julia

> 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
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