Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 Aug 2003 11:18:11 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' |
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Jasper Spaans wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:42:37PM -0400, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > >>>It changes all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' in the complete tree; >>>I've just comiled all affected files (that is, the config resulting from >>>make allyesconfig minus already broken stuff) succesfully on i386. >> >>Arrrgh! You can't be serious! > > > Yes, I am bloody serious; this patch might look purely cosmetic at first > sight.. yet, there's a technical reason for at least one part of it. Grep > and see the horror: > > $ egrep -ni 'flavou?r' fs/nfs/inode.c > [snip] > 1357: rpc_authflavor_t authflavour; > [snip]
Ah, for a moment, I was worried that someone was talking about text in comments.
Yes, when it comes to spelling of words in variable and type names, I think it would be a good idea to be consistent.
What is Linus's preferred spelling? Let's use that.
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