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[178.164.237.246]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l8sm25651546wrq.15.2020.07.06.16.58.22 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 06 Jul 2020 16:58:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Tibor Raschko Subject: Re: [Tech-board-discuss] [PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology To: Dan Williams , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tech-board-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Chris Mason , skhan@linuxfoundation.org References: <79214066-3886-e0ef-f26e-8cb3d53404be@linuxfoundation.org> Message-ID: Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 01:58:21 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <79214066-3886-e0ef-f26e-8cb3d53404be@linuxfoundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > The suggestions you made will help us adapt inclusive terminology > for the current times, and also help us move toward terms that are > intuitive and easier to understand keeping our global developer > community in mind. > Allowlist/denylist terms are intuitive and action based which have a > globally uniform meaning. Nobody has a problem understanding "blacklist" and "whitelist". These are universally understood words even outside of computing. Claiming that we need clearer alternatives is smoke and mirrors. > Terms such as "whitelist" etc are contextual, hence assume contextual > knowledge on the part of the reader. We are talking about the source code of and interacting with an operating system kernel. Naturally, most things here are contextual and require domain knowledge to be understood correctly. Not requiring contextual knowledge when reading the kernel sources doesn't sound like a realistic argument. Raschko T.