linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sound/pci/hda: Changes 'blacklist/whitelist' to 'blocklist/allowlist'

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Message-ID: <20200715114032.057fd63d@lwn.net>
Date:   Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:40:32 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Paul Schulz <paul@...sonlakes.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sound/pci/hda: Changes 'blacklist/whitelist' to
 'blocklist/allowlist'

On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 01:52:04 +0930
Paul Schulz <paul@...sonlakes.org> wrote:

> -static bool pm_blacklist = true;
> -module_param(pm_blacklist, bool, 0644);
> -MODULE_PARM_DESC(pm_blacklist, "Enable power-management blacklist");
> +static bool pm_blocklist = true;
> +module_param(pm_blocklist, bool, 0644);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(pm_blocklist, "Enable power-management blocklist");

This will break any user specifying this parameter now, which isn't
something you want to do, methinks...

jon