Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v3] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Mon Jul 13 2020 - 04:43:33 EST




On Mon, 13 Jul 2020, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> On Wed, 08 Jul 2020 20:14:27 +0200,
> Dan Williams wrote:
> >
> > +Recommended replacements for 'blacklist/whitelist' are:
> > + 'denylist / allowlist'
> > + 'blocklist / passlist'
>
> I started looking through the tree now and noticed there are lots of
> patterns like "whitelisted" or "blacklisted". How can the words fit
> for those? Actually, there are two cases like:
>
> - Foo is blacklisted
> - Allow to load the non-whitelisted cards
>
> Currently I'm replacing the former with "Foo is in denylist", but not

In the denylist?

julia


> sure about the latter case. I thought Kees mentioned about this, but
> don't remember the proposal...
>
> In anyway, I'm for the action:
> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Takashi
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