From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271330AbTHHHNs (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 03:13:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271331AbTHHHNW (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 03:13:22 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:57292 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271330AbTHHHNT (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 03:13:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:13:14 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Alan Cox Cc: Jasper Spaans , torvalds@osdl.org, andries.brouwer@cwi.nl, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' Message-ID: <20030808071314.GC18823@suse.de> References: <20030807180032.GA16957@spaans.vs19.net> <1060295842.3169.83.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1060295842.3169.83.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 07 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2003-08-07 at 19:00, Jasper Spaans 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. > > The Linux kernel tended to favour european spelling, and favOUr is > indeed correct English. Eh? Maybe you did (obviously), but I don't see a general trend there. I tend to prefer favor/color etc. Oh, and disk obviously. -- Jens Axboe