Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Recommend denylist/allowlist instead of blacklist/whitelist

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Jun 11 2020 - 02:35:34 EST


On Thu, 2020-06-11 at 08:25 +0200, SeongJae Park wrote:
> From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patchset 1) adds support of deprecated terms in the 'checkpatch.pl'
> and 2) set the 'blacklist' and 'whitelist' as deprecated with
> replacement suggestion of 'denylist' and 'allowlist', because the
> suggestions are incontrovertible, doesn't make people hurt, and more
> self-explanatory.

While the checkpatch implementation is better,
I'm still very "meh" about the whole concept.