From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271685AbTHHPsr (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:48:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271686AbTHHPsr (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:48:47 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:23267 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271685AbTHHPso (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:48:44 -0400 To: Timothy Miller , Jasper Spaans , Zwane Mwaikambo , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' References: <20030807180032.GA16957@spaans.vs19.net> <20030808065230.GA5996@spaans.vs19.net> <3F33BF33.8070601@techsource.com> From: Trond Myklebust Date: 08 Aug 2003 17:48:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact postmaster@uio.no if you have questions about this scanning. X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> >>>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] >> Anybody who screws with that spelling is setting himself up for the red hot poker treatment... The flavor/flavour thing reflects the fact that the code has been written and modified by different people with different backgrounds. Some people have been unfortunate enough to be of the US persuasion, others have grown up with the British spelling. Now leave it alone and go do something useful with your lives... Trond