Linus Torvalds approved on Friday a new and more inclusive terminology for the Linux kernel code and documentation.
Going forward, Linux developers have been asked to use new terms for the master/slave and blacklist/whitelist terminologies.
The Linux team did not recommend any specific terms but asked developers to choose as appropriate.
The new terms are to be used for new source code written for the Linux kernel and its associated documentation.
The older terms, considered inadequate now, will only be allowed for maintaining older code and documentation, or "when updating code for an existing (as of 2020) hardware or protocol specification that mandates those terms."
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Linux kernel will no longer use terms 'blacklist' and 'slave'
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @02:10AM (2 children)
I can sort of understand getting rid of master/slave, especially if it is in regard to IDE hard drives, where the term was never even technically correct to start with.
But whitelist/blacklist? How does that even make sense?
(Score: 1, Redundant) by c0lo on Wednesday July 15 2020, @02:13AM (1 child)
Oddly.
As in: it oddly makes sense. (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @05:21AM
(Reminder: must stop the internal monologue)