netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/5] bonding: rename bond components

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Date:   Mon, 9 Nov 2020 11:47:58 -0500
From:   Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@...il.com>,
        Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>,
        Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Thomas Davis <tadavis@....gov>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/5] bonding: rename bond components

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 9:44 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri,  6 Nov 2020 15:04:31 -0500 Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > The bonding driver's use of master and slave, while largely understood
> > in technical circles, poses a barrier for inclusion to some potential
> > members of the development and user community, due to the historical
> > context of masters and slaves, particularly in the United States. This
> > is a first full pass at replacing those phrases with more socially
> > inclusive ones, opting for bond to replace master and port to
> > replace slave, which is congruent with the bridge and team drivers.
>
> If we decide to go ahead with this, we should probably also use it as
> an opportunity to clean up the more egregious checkpatch warnings, WDYT?
>
> Plan minimum - don't add new ones ;)

Hm. I hadn't actually looked at checkpatch output until now. It's...
noisy here. But I'm pretty sure the vast majority of that is from
existing issues, simply reported now due to all the renaming. I can
certainly take a crack at cleanups, but I'd be worried about missing
another merge window trying to sort all of these, when they're not
directly related.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod@...hat.com