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From:   SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts/spelling: Recommend blocklist/allowlist instead of blacklist/whitelist
Date:   Wed, 10 Jun 2020 07:33:35 +0200
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On Tue, 09 Jun 2020 18:35:46 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 14:25 +0200, SeongJae Park wrote:
> > From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
> >
> > This commit recommends the patches to replace 'blacklist' and
> > 'whitelist' with the 'blocklist' and 'allowlist', because the new
> > suggestions are incontrovertible, doesn't make people hurt, and more
> > self-explanatory.
> 
> nack.  Spelling is for typos not for politics.

Agreed, I'm abusing the spell checking.  I personally believe the terms will
eventually removed from the dictionary and become typos, though.

I will update checkpatch to support deprecated terms checking, and set the
'blacklist' and 'whitelist' as the deprecated terms in the next spin.


Thanks,
SeongJae Park

> 
> > Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
> > ---
> >  scripts/spelling.txt | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/scripts/spelling.txt b/scripts/spelling.txt
> > index d9cd24cf0d40..ea785568d8b8 100644
> > --- a/scripts/spelling.txt
> > +++ b/scripts/spelling.txt
> > @@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ beter||better
> >  betweeen||between
> >  bianries||binaries
> >  bitmast||bitmask
> > +blacklist||blocklist
> >  boardcast||broadcast
> >  borad||board
> >  boundry||boundary
> > @@ -1495,6 +1496,7 @@ whcih||which
> >  whenver||whenever
> >  wheter||whether
> >  whe||when
> > +whitelist||allowlist
> >  wierd||weird
> >  wiil||will
> >  wirte||write