Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor'

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 03:58:29 EST


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 Gründlichkeit? ;)

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

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