Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271357AbTHHPFF (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:05:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271365AbTHHPFE (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:05:04 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:37641 "HELO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S271357AbTHHPFA (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:05:00 -0400 Message-ID: <3F33BF33.8070601@techsource.com> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 11:18:11 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jasper Spaans CC: 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1136 Lines: 37 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. - 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/