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

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2007131137330.2322@hadrien>
Date:   Mon, 13 Jul 2020 11:39:56 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
cc:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>,
        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 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:43:28 +0200,
> Julia Lawall wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
>
> Not really, only the allowlist exists in this case.

I'm not sure to understand.  in denylist is not grammatical.  It needs "a"
or "the".

Maybe it has to be foo is denylisted?  foo is in the implicit denyList?
foo is not in the allowList?

julia