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.
