From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ABDFC433E2 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:40:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E0120656 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:40:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726465AbgGORke (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:40:34 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:52870 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725882AbgGORke (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:40:34 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:3a1::42]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 35FAAC061755 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2020 10:40:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1C4012E2; Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:40:33 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:40:32 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Paul Schulz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jaroslav Kysela Subject: Re: [PATCH] sound/pci/hda: Changes 'blacklist/whitelist' to 'blocklist/allowlist' Message-ID: <20200715114032.057fd63d@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20200715162204.104646-1-paul@mawsonlakes.org> References: <20200715162204.104646-1-paul@mawsonlakes.org> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 01:52:04 +0930 Paul Schulz wrote: > -static bool pm_blacklist = true; > -module_param(pm_blacklist, bool, 0644); > -MODULE_PARM_DESC(pm_blacklist, "Enable power-management blacklist"); > +static bool pm_blocklist = true; > +module_param(pm_blocklist, bool, 0644); > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(pm_blocklist, "Enable power-management blocklist"); This will break any user specifying this parameter now, which isn't something you want to do, methinks... jon