Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Recommend denylist/allowlist instead of blacklist/whitelist

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>, SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, apw@canonical.com,
	SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>,
	colin.king@canonical.com, sj38.park@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Recommend denylist/allowlist instead of blacklist/whitelist
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 23:29:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200614212911.GB24529@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dwcfitg.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au>

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On Sat 2020-06-13 00:40:59, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> writes:
> > On 11. 06. 20, 9:38, SeongJae Park wrote:
> >> On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 23:35:24 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2020-06-11 at 08:25 +0200, SeongJae Park wrote:
> >>>> From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
> >>>>
> >>>> This patchset 1) adds support of deprecated terms in the 'checkpatch.pl'
> >>>> and 2) set the 'blacklist' and 'whitelist' as deprecated with
> >>>> replacement suggestion of 'denylist' and 'allowlist', because the
> >>>> suggestions are incontrovertible, doesn't make people hurt, and more
> >>>> self-explanatory.
> >>>
> >>> While the checkpatch implementation is better,
> >>> I'm still very "meh" about the whole concept.
> >> 
> >> I can understand your concerns about politic things in the second patch.
> >> However, the concept of the 'deprecated terms' in the first patch is not
> >> political but applicable to the general cases.  We already had the commits[1]
> >> for a similar case.  So, could you ack for at least the first patch?
> >> 
> >> [1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Kernel-Hugs
> >
> > Fuck you! replaced by hug you! is a completely different story. The
> > former is indeed offending to majority (despite it's quite common to
> > tell someone "fuck you" in my subregion; OTOH hugging, no way -- I'm a
> > straight non-communist). If it turns out that any word (e.g. blacklist)
> > offends _majority_ (or at least a significant part of it) of some
> > minority or culture, then sure, we should send it to /dev/null.
> > should by no means listen to extreme individuals.
> 
> I agree you have to draw the line somewhere, there will always be
> someone somewhere that's offended by something. But this seems like a
> pretty easy case.
> 
> It's not like blacklist / whitelist are even good to begin with, it's
> not obvious which is which, you have to learn that black is bad and
> white is good.
> 
> Blocklist (or denylist?) and allowlist are actually more descriptive and
> less likely to cause confusion.

You do not understand how word "blacklist" is used inside the kernel,
do you? Do a quick grep.
									Pavel

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