linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology

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Message-ID: <20200717083527.GA1027@bug>
Date:   Fri, 17 Jul 2020 10:35:27 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Chris Mason <clm@...clm>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        tech-board-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology

Hi!

> +On the triviality of replacing words
> +====================================
> +
> +The African slave trade was a brutal system of human misery deployed at
> +global scale. Some word choice decisions in a modern software project
> +does next to nothing to compensate for that legacy. So why put any
> +effort into something so trivial in comparison? Because the goal is not
> +to repair, or erase the past. The goal is to maximize availability and
> +efficiency of the global developer community to participate in the Linux
> +kernel development process.

I'd preffer to keep politics out of kernel.

> +of 'blacklist' is devoid of a historical racial connection. However, one
> +thought exercise is to consider replacing 'blacklist/whitelist' with
> +'redlist/greenlist'. Realize that the replacement only makes sense if
> +you have been socialized with the concepts that 'red/green' implies
> +'stop/go'. Colors to represent a policy requires an indirection. The

So you are trying to blacklist colors. That's stupid.

> +socialization of 'black/white' to have the connotation of
> +'impermissible/permissible' does not support inclusion.
> +
> +Inclusion == global developer community efficiency.

It seems inclusion == reason to push politics and questionable patches
into kernel. That is opposite of efficiency.

:-(
										Pavel
 
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