From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
       Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>, Jasper Spaans <jasper@vs19.net>,
       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, 8 Aug 2003 12:42:14 -0400
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On Friday 08 August 2003 11:48, Trond Myklebust 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]
>
>Anybody who screws with that spelling is setting himself up for the
>red hot poker treatment...

That and toothpicks under the fingernails comes to mind.

>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

What about the scenario where both spellings are used in  a header 
someplace that winds up being a systemwide reference?  I don't know 
that it has been, but such a 'correction' has the potential to take 
us back to square one and 1993.  I have had recurring daytime 
nightmares of such possibilities since this subject came up the first 
time a week or so ago.

Methinks the proponent here should find another, more productive 
outlet for his frustrations.  This particular dog won't hunt.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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