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

[Timothy Miller]

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.


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