Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] [PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology

Kees Cook <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Jul 2020 18:10:17 -0700
Newsgroups org.linuxfoundation.lists.ksummit-discuss,dev.linux.lists.ksummit,dev.linux.lists.tech-board-discuss,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
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On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 08:10:33PM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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.

(No one has suggested renaming red/black trees, so I think the
slippery-slope argument can be set aside here.)

As for the actual proposal on white/black-list, I've always been annoyed
by the poor description it provides (and I get to see it A LOT being
the seccomp maintainer). I welcome allow/deny-list (though the change is
not new for seccomp -- the man pages were updated last year (thanks
mkerrisk). :)

-- 
Kees Cook
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