Replace 'whitelist' with 'allow'

Let's use more inclusive language here and avoid terms
that are frowned upon nowadays.

Message-Id: <20220711095300.60462-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

3 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/docs/devel/submitting-a-patch.rst b/docs/devel/submitting-a-patch.rst
index 09a8d12c2c..fec33ce148 100644
--- a/docs/devel/submitting-a-patch.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/submitting-a-patch.rst
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ ideas from other posts. If you do subscribe, be prepared for a high
 volume of email, often over one thousand messages in a week. The list is
 moderated; first-time posts from an email address (whether or not you
 subscribed) may be subject to some delay while waiting for a moderator
-to whitelist your address.
+to allow your address.
 
 The larger your contribution is, or if you plan on becoming a long-term
 contributor, then the more important the rest of this page becomes.
diff --git a/docs/tools/qemu-nbd.rst b/docs/tools/qemu-nbd.rst
index 8e08a29e89..faf6349ea5 100644
--- a/docs/tools/qemu-nbd.rst
+++ b/docs/tools/qemu-nbd.rst
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ disconnects:
   qemu-nbd -f qcow2 file.qcow2
 
 Start a long-running server listening with encryption on port 10810,
-and whitelist clients with a specific X.509 certificate to connect to
+and allow clients with a specific X.509 certificate to connect to
 a 1 megabyte subset of a raw file, using the export name 'subset':
 
 ::
diff --git a/scripts/vmstate-static-checker.py b/scripts/vmstate-static-checker.py
index 539ead62b4..b369388360 100755
--- a/scripts/vmstate-static-checker.py
+++ b/scripts/vmstate-static-checker.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def check_fields_match(name, s_field, d_field):
         return True
 
     # Some fields changed names between qemu versions.  This list
-    # is used to whitelist such changes in each section / description.
+    # is used to allow such changes in each section / description.
     changed_names = {
         'apic': ['timer', 'timer_expiry'],
         'e1000': ['dev', 'parent_obj'],