Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor'

From: Alexander Winston <alexander.winston@comcast.net>
To: Jasper Spaans <jasper@vs19.net>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor'
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 03:07:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F334C34.90403@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030808065230.GA5996@spaans.vs19.net>

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]
>
>VrGr,
>
I think another important issue is consistency. We should choose a 
style, and then stick with it.