[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/9] eal: replace pci-whitelist/pci-blacklist options

[Bruce Richardson]

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 <stephen at 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?