Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271707AbTHHRCx (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:02:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271710AbTHHRCx (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:02:53 -0400 Received: from mailrelay3.lanl.gov ([128.165.4.104]:46810 "EHLO mailrelay3.lanl.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271707AbTHHRCw (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:02:52 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' From: Steven Cole To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Alan Cox , Jasper Spaans , Linus Torvalds , andries.brouwer@cwi.nl, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <3020000.1060301062@[10.10.2.4]> References: <20030807180032.GA16957@spaans.vs19.net> <1060295842.3169.83.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3020000.1060301062@[10.10.2.4]> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1060361688.1967.9.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Date: 08 Aug 2003 10:54:48 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1423 Lines: 34 On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 18:04, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > --Alan Cox wrote (on Thursday, August 07, 2003 23:37:23 +0100): > > > On Iau, 2003-08-07 at 19:00, Jasper Spaans 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. > > > > The Linux kernel tended to favour european spelling, and favOUr is > > indeed correct English. > > Either way, haven't we stopped piddling around with spelling fixes and > breaking everyone's patches yet? I thought we had ... > > M. Well, I for one have stopped with the spelling patches since the cost/benefit ratio was too high for many key folks. When the spelling patches were being generated, we were quite careful not to "fix" English spellings. I won't begin the next round of spelling fixes until 2.7.40, for those who want to plan ahead that far. And next time, I'll send the patches through the maintainers. But we can still argue about spelling fixes if that makes people happier. Cheers, Steven (off-duty spelling cop) - 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/