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

On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 06:39:49 +0200,
[email protected] wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 10:02:24AM +0200, 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
> > sure about the latter case.  I thought Kees mentioned about this, but
> > don't remember the proposal...
> 
> I find that "blocklist" works well as a verb: "foo is blocklisted",
> "blocklist foo", or in some cases just "block foo" or "deny foo". For
> the second case, phrasings like "allow loading non-safelisted cards" or
> "allow loading cards not on the passlist" seem clear.

Yes, that makes sense.  I have wished some simple replacement with
sed, but it seems that it'd be better to rephrase such texts in
anyway.


thanks,

Takashi

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