Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271038AbTHHIyQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 04:54:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271063AbTHHIyQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 04:54:16 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:15331 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271038AbTHHIyN (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 04:54:13 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:54:12 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Jasper Spaans Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' Message-ID: <20030808085412.GA27130@suse.de> References: <20030808074009.GC2886@suse.de> <20030808080008.GA7237@spaans.vs19.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20030808080008.GA7237@spaans.vs19.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1073 Lines: 33 On Fri, Aug 08 2003, Jasper Spaans wrote: > On vrijdag, aug 8, 2003, at 09:40 Europe/Amsterdam, Jens Axboe wrote: > >_Who cares_? People going nuts with spelling changes was bad (and > >disruptive) enough, > > Obviously, you don't. What happened to good old Gr?ndlichkeit? ;) I don't know, I'm not german. > >being overly pedantic with us vs uk spelling is an > >even bigger waste of time imho. > > Yep. > > >It's not like people don't understand > >what is there. And it's not like it adds any extra value to the > >kernel. > > This holds for about 90% of that patch (with which I mean to the use of > flavou?r/ in non-code); the 10% where it does matter (and thus adds > value) is what I'm trying to get some consensus on. My comments _were_ for printed messages, for comments it's 101% superflous. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/