This is a pretty good summary of various suggestions for replacement terms:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-team-approves-new-terminology-bans-terms-like-blacklist-and-slave/

Ed

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:36 AM Jerome Tollet via lists.fd.io <jtollet=
cisco....@lists.fd.io> wrote:

> Hi Steven,
> Please note that per this proposition,  https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/4/229,
> slave must be avoided but master can be kept.
> Maybe master/member or master/secondary could be options too.
> Jerome
>
> Le 14/07/2020 18:32, « vpp-dev@lists.fd.io au nom de steven luong via
> lists.fd.io » <vpp-dev@lists.fd.io au nom de sluong=cisco....@lists.fd.io>
> a écrit :
>
>     I am in the process of pushing a patch to replace master/slave with
> aggregator/member for the bonding.
>
>     Steven
>
>     On 7/13/20, 4:44 AM, "vpp-dev@lists.fd.io on behalf of Dave Barach
> via lists.fd.io" <vpp-dev@lists.fd.io on behalf of dbarach=
> cisco....@lists.fd.io> wrote:
>
>         +1, especially since our next release will be supported for a
> year, and API name changes are involved...
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: Kinsella, Ray <m...@ashroe.eu>
>         Sent: Monday, July 13, 2020 6:01 AM
>         To: Dave Barach (dbarach) <dbar...@cisco.com>; Stephen Hemminger <
> step...@networkplumber.org>; vpp-dev@lists.fd.io; t...@lists.fd.io; Ed
> Warnicke (eaw) <e...@cisco.com>
>         Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] Replacing master/slave nomenclature
>
>         Hi Stephen,
>
>         I agree, I don't think we should ignore this.
>         Ed - I suggest we table a discussion at the next FD.io TSC?
>
>         Ray K
>
>         On 09/07/2020 17:05, Dave Barach via lists.fd.io wrote:
>         > Looping in the technical steering committee...
>         >
>         > -----Original Message-----
>         > From: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io <vpp-dev@lists.fd.io> On Behalf Of
> Stephen Hemminger
>         > Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 7:02 PM
>         > To: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io
>         > Subject: [vpp-dev] Replacing master/slave nomenclature
>         >
>         > Is the VPP project addressing the use of master/slave
> nomenclature in the code base, documentation and CLI?  We are doing this
> for DPDK and it would be good if the replacement wording used in DPDK
> matched the wording used in FD.io projects.
>         >
>         > Particularly problematic is the use of master/slave in bonding.
>         > This seems to be a leftover from Linux, since none of the
> commercial products use that terminology and it is not present in 802.1AX
> standard.
>         >
>         > The IEEE and IETF are doing an across the board look at these
> terms in standards.
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
>
>
> 
>
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