Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v2] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 9:40 AM Dan Williams <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Dave Airlie <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>

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

Thanks,
Linus Walleij
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