On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 10:01:24AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Replace pci-whitelist with pci-allowlist and pci-blacklist with > pci-blocklist. Allow the old options for now, but make sure help > and all tests will use the new options. > > The short flags are more commonly used and changing them > would impact more documentation and applications. > The -b flag can be described as "blocklist" rather than "blacklist. > The -w flag can be thought of as "with" instead "whitelist". > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> > ---
Rather than trying to replace blacklist/whitelist with similar sounding words in blocklist/allowlist, might it be clearer to use more different terms that have a better description. How about: "pci-skip-probe" and "pci-only-probe" or something along those lines?
