Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272229AbTHIAnL (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 20:43:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272224AbTHIAmf (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 20:42:35 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:60600 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272229AbTHIAlh (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 20:41:37 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:41:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Trond Myklebust cc: Timothy Miller , Jasper Spaans , Zwane Mwaikambo , Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 707 Lines: 21 On 9 Aug 2003, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > Since we appear to be in the silly season... No, your patch isn't silly, it's EVIL. It fundamentally breaks the notion of "grep for usage" by introducing two names to the same thing, without having even a good reason (ie no "nice abstraction" thing or anything). So that's just bad. In contrast, switching "authflavour" to "authflavor" (to match the type) ahs the advantage of _improving_ greppability. Linus - 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/