From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: "Harrosh, Boaz" <Boaz.Harrosh@netapp.com>
Cc: ksummit <ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"tech-board-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
<tech-board-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
Chris Mason <clm@fb.clm>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 01:54:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202007070137.3ADBEDC@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM6PR06MB3836FBAD65096AF63ACD3DB3EE660@DM6PR06MB3836.namprd06.prod.outlook.com>
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 06:56:53AM +0000, Harrosh, Boaz wrote:
> Kees Cook wrote:
> > I have struggled with this as well. The parts of speech change, and my
> > grammar senses go weird. whitelist = adjective noun. allow-list = verb
> > noun. verbing the adj/noun combo feels okay, but verbing a verb/noun is
> > weird.
>
> > And just using "allowed" and "denied" doesn't impart whether it refers
> > to a _single_ instance or a _list_ of instances.
>
> > But that's all fine. The change is easy to do and is more descriptive
> > even if I can't find terms that don't collide with my internal grammar
> > checker. ;)
>
> But why. In English many times a verb when it comes before the noun means an adjective, or an adjective like, describing some traits of the noun.
This is kind of my problem being a native English speaker: I can't
entirely describe _why_ a grammar construct feels wrong. :(
> Example:
> I work - work is a verb here.
> I used the work bench. - Work is saying something about the type of bench, an adjective. Same as you would say "I used the green bench".
Right, so the verb-noun being used as a noun is find, just as adj-noun
is. To me, "add it to the allow-list" is entirely sensible just like
"set it on the work-bench." It's the "verbing" of a noun that trips me
up.
"I will whitelist the syscall" -- sounds correct to me (same for
"it is whitelisted" or "it is in whitelisting mode").
"I will allow-list the syscall" -- sounds wrong to me (same for
"it is allow-listed" or "it is in allow-listing mode").
Similarly, "I will work-bench" sounds wrong to me as does "it is
work-benched" or "it is in work-benching mode".
> I am not an English native at all but allow-list sounds totally English to me. (I guess the very correct English way is "allowed-list" where the past tense may convert the verb to a noun. but allow-list sounds very good to me as well. Say work-list as opposed to vacation-list do you need to say worked-list? I don't think so.)
>
> run mate, running mate. cutting board. these are all examples of verbs used as adjectives. Are they not English? What am I missing I would like to learn?
"it is in allowing-list mode" sounds even worse. :) But other
things require the tense follow the merged verb: "It's already in the
allowed-list" sounds fine, where "It's already in the whitelist" had no
tense since it lacked a verb. I haven't been able to find an comfortable
adjective that means "allow"; "allowable-list" is just long.
But, as mentioned earlier -- I have just switched to more descriptive
and less weird (to me) sentences. "It is set to deny by default"
(instead of "it's a whitelist") or "It's already in the allowed-list".
*shrug*
--
Kees Cook
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2020-07-04 20:02 [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology Dan Williams
2020-07-04 20:31 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-07-04 23:41 ` Dave Airlie
2020-07-05 0:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-05 1:10 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " Kees Cook
2020-07-05 2:44 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-07-06 11:15 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-07-06 15:53 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-05 2:54 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Dave Airlie
2020-07-04 20:44 ` Stephen Rothwell
2020-07-04 23:34 ` Dave Airlie
2020-07-05 2:12 ` Stephen Rothwell
2020-07-05 2:56 ` Dave Airlie
2020-07-05 3:23 ` James Bottomley
2020-07-05 3:26 ` Stephen Rothwell
2020-07-04 21:14 ` Olof Johansson
2020-07-04 21:25 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " James Bottomley
2020-07-04 21:51 ` Joe Perches
2020-07-04 23:39 ` Dave Airlie
2020-07-05 0:08 ` Joe Perches
2020-07-05 1:32 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-05 17:50 ` opal hart
2020-07-04 23:42 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Dave Airlie
2020-07-05 0:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-06 7:06 ` NeilBrown
2020-07-06 7:10 ` NeilBrown
2020-07-06 7:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-06 7:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-07-06 10:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-06 12:51 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-06 12:59 ` Joe Perches
2020-07-06 13:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-06 13:30 ` Joe Perches
2020-07-09 11:11 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-07-13 4:25 ` Vinod Koul
2020-07-13 15:55 ` Dan Williams
2020-07-05 0:41 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-07 4:30 ` Dan Williams
2020-07-10 16:52 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-07-05 4:55 ` Willy Tarreau
2020-07-06 3:13 ` Daniel Palmer
2020-07-06 12:45 ` Chris Mason via Ksummit-discuss
2020-07-06 14:06 ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-07-06 15:55 ` Chris Mason via Ksummit-discuss
2020-07-06 16:06 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-07-07 4:17 ` Dan Williams
2020-07-06 15:22 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-07-06 15:40 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " Steven Rostedt
2020-07-06 13:23 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Tibor Raschko
2020-07-06 16:29 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-07-07 4:00 ` Dan Williams
2020-07-07 5:56 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-07 6:49 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-07-07 13:37 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " Steven Rostedt
2020-07-07 15:24 ` Bird, Tim
2020-07-07 15:33 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-07-07 15:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-07-07 15:55 ` Bird, Tim
2020-07-07 6:56 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Harrosh, Boaz
2020-07-07 8:54 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-07-07 13:41 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " Steven Rostedt
2020-07-07 14:45 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-07-07 20:56 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-07 21:48 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Arvind Sankar
2020-07-07 12:13 ` Mark Brown
2020-07-06 18:30 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " Shuah Khan
2020-07-06 23:58 ` Tibor Raschko
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2020-07-09 16:01 ` Shuah Khan
2020-07-09 16:13 ` Mark Brown
2020-07-09 16:32 ` James Bottomley
2020-07-09 16:35 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-07-07 4:04 ` Dan Williams
2020-07-06 19:15 ` Mark Brown
2020-07-07 0:48 ` Tibor Raschko
2020-07-07 21:26 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-07-07 23:54 ` Tibor Raschko
2020-07-07 4:08 ` Dan Williams
2020-07-07 9:36 ` Mark Brown
2020-07-06 21:31 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-06 22:10 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " Steven Rostedt
2020-07-06 22:17 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-06 22:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-07-06 23:03 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-08 3:42 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-07-07 6:56 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " SeongJae Park via Ksummit-discuss
2020-07-08 7:12 ` Dan Williams
2020-07-08 9:28 ` SeongJae Park via Ksummit-discuss
2020-07-07 7:51 ` Christian Brauner
2020-07-17 8:35 ` Pavel Machek
2020-07-26 15:30 ` Laurent Pinchart
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