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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: ksummit <ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	tech-board-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
	Chris Mason <clm@fb.clm>, Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v2] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 09:13:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4jxnayrq6FKVkR-hCedm-XARd-wuQpFjfGVBg6j5ow0xw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdax9wSFtYxyCu18bWwc5T1GqNx7EDVA6JN+Qu42hOCh_A@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 9:03 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 9:40 AM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > Linux maintains a coding-style and its own idiomatic set of terminology.
> > Update the style guidelines to recommend replacements for the terms
> > master/slave and blacklist/whitelist.
> >
> > Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/159389297140.2210796.13590142254668787525.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
> > Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
> > Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> > Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
> > Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> > Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.clm>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

Thanks Linus.

>
> An interesting piece on the topic is Douglas R. Hofstadter's
> satirical "A Person paper On Purity in Language" from 1985,
> which is funny, witty, Jonathan Swift-like and at one point
> convinced me on the importance of proper language in
> my professional work.
> http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html

...and thanks for that laugh.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-08  7:23 [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v2] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology Dan Williams
2020-07-08  7:52 ` Dan Williams
2020-07-08  8:22 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-08 14:43   ` Dan Williams
2020-07-08  9:30 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " Mark Brown
2020-07-08 10:07 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Dan Carpenter
2020-07-08 11:04 ` Joe Perches
2020-07-08 15:14   ` Dan Williams
2020-07-08 15:59   ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " James Bottomley
2020-07-08 14:22 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " tytso
2020-07-08 16:23 ` Christian Brauner
2020-07-08 16:42 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " Shuah Khan
2020-07-08 18:59 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Stephen Hemminger
2020-07-10 16:02 ` Linus Walleij
2020-07-10 16:13   ` Dan Williams [this message]
2020-07-11 13:30 ` Pavel Machek

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