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Date:   Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:39:49 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v3] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology
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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.