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

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Jun 15 2020 - 03:40:59 EST


On Mon 2020-06-15 00:00:56, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 08:46 +0200, SeongJae Park wrote:
> > So, I agree this patch is imperfect for many cases, but better than nothing.
>
> Not necessarily.
>
> Having people strain for unusual equivalents
> to generally well known terms is not good.

Exactly. Plus consistency is good, and having same structure named
blacklist here and naughtyhardwarelist there does not really help.

Pavel

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