From: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy6545@gmail.com>
Cc: ksummit <ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
tech-board-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
Chris Mason <clm@fb.clm>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 12:54:17 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPM=9txhJvp8dvJA7HWa=dEaTgKCzrNc5evof+z7ZW8+e=cKTQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 10:10, Matthew Wilcox <willy6545@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Erm, red-black trees don't have a derivation from gambling terminology either. The wikipedia article says:
>
> In a 1978 paper, "A Dichromatic Framework for Balanced Trees",[6] Leonidas J. Guibas and Robert Sedgewick derived the red-black tree from the symmetric binary B-tree.[7] The color "red" was chosen because it was the best-looking color produced by the color laser printer available to the authors while working at Xerox PARC.[8] Another response from Guibas states that it was because of the red and black pens available to them to draw the trees.[9]
>
> Left-right tree makes no sense. It doesn't distinguish the rbtree from its predecessor the avl tree. I don't think it's helpful to rename a standard piece of computing terminology unless it's actually hurting us to have it. Obviously if it were called a "master-slave" tree, I would be in favour of renaming it.
As I said "it means nothing if you've never interacted with gambling
culture," red black in the context of the trees as zero meaning other
than as a name to find it on the internet, Search for that name enough
and you will undoubtedly be getting ads for online roulette sites
within hours, if you have a problem gambling past, this might not be
the desired effect you'd want.
The reasons something was named a particular thing can and will be
different from what a societal context for them means now, and I
believe it's more important to worry about current societal contexts
than legacy historical namings. I'm not seriously suggesting we rename
red-black trees, but if someone who had a problematic gambling
background had issues with them I'd definitely be open for considering
it.
Dave.
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2020-07-04 20:02 [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology Dan Williams
2020-07-04 20:31 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-07-04 23:41 ` Dave Airlie
2020-07-05 0:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-05 1:10 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " Kees Cook
2020-07-05 2:44 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-07-06 11:15 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-07-06 15:53 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-05 2:54 ` Dave Airlie [this message]
2020-07-04 20:44 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Stephen Rothwell
2020-07-04 23:34 ` Dave Airlie
2020-07-05 2:12 ` Stephen Rothwell
2020-07-05 2:56 ` Dave Airlie
2020-07-05 3:23 ` James Bottomley
2020-07-05 3:26 ` Stephen Rothwell
2020-07-04 21:14 ` Olof Johansson
2020-07-04 21:25 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " James Bottomley
2020-07-04 21:51 ` Joe Perches
2020-07-04 23:39 ` Dave Airlie
2020-07-05 0:08 ` Joe Perches
2020-07-05 1:32 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-05 17:50 ` opal hart
2020-07-04 23:42 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Dave Airlie
2020-07-05 0:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-06 7:06 ` NeilBrown
2020-07-06 7:10 ` NeilBrown
2020-07-06 7:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-06 7:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-07-06 10:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-06 12:51 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-06 12:59 ` Joe Perches
2020-07-06 13:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-06 13:30 ` Joe Perches
2020-07-09 11:11 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-07-13 4:25 ` Vinod Koul
2020-07-13 15:55 ` Dan Williams
2020-07-05 0:41 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-07 4:30 ` Dan Williams
2020-07-10 16:52 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-07-05 4:55 ` Willy Tarreau
2020-07-06 3:13 ` Daniel Palmer
2020-07-06 12:45 ` Chris Mason via Ksummit-discuss
2020-07-06 14:06 ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-07-06 15:55 ` Chris Mason via Ksummit-discuss
2020-07-06 16:06 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-07-07 4:17 ` Dan Williams
2020-07-06 15:22 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-07-06 15:40 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " Steven Rostedt
2020-07-06 13:23 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Tibor Raschko
2020-07-06 16:29 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-07-07 4:00 ` Dan Williams
2020-07-07 5:56 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-07 6:49 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-07-07 13:37 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " Steven Rostedt
2020-07-07 15:24 ` Bird, Tim
2020-07-07 15:33 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-07-07 15:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-07-07 15:55 ` Bird, Tim
2020-07-07 6:56 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Harrosh, Boaz
2020-07-07 8:54 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-07 13:41 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " Steven Rostedt
2020-07-07 14:45 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-07-07 20:56 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-07 21:48 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Arvind Sankar
2020-07-07 12:13 ` Mark Brown
2020-07-06 18:30 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " Shuah Khan
2020-07-06 23:58 ` Tibor Raschko
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2020-07-09 16:01 ` Shuah Khan
2020-07-09 16:13 ` Mark Brown
2020-07-09 16:32 ` James Bottomley
2020-07-09 16:35 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-07-07 4:04 ` Dan Williams
2020-07-06 19:15 ` Mark Brown
2020-07-07 0:48 ` Tibor Raschko
2020-07-07 21:26 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-07-07 23:54 ` Tibor Raschko
2020-07-07 4:08 ` Dan Williams
2020-07-07 9:36 ` Mark Brown
2020-07-06 21:31 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-06 22:10 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " Steven Rostedt
2020-07-06 22:17 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-06 22:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-07-06 23:03 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-08 3:42 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-07-07 6:56 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " SeongJae Park via Ksummit-discuss
2020-07-08 7:12 ` Dan Williams
2020-07-08 9:28 ` SeongJae Park via Ksummit-discuss
2020-07-07 7:51 ` Christian Brauner
2020-07-17 8:35 ` Pavel Machek
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