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From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 10 Jul 2020 09:13:17 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 9:03 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 9:40 AM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> 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 <corbet@lwn.net>
> > Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> > Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
> > Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> > Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.clm>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

Thanks Linus.

>
> 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

...and thanks for that laugh.