[U-Boot] [PATCH v6 16/20] patman: buildman: Correct spelling of 'colour'

York Sun
2014-08-10T05:23:27Z

On 8/9/14 3:34 PM, "Simon Glass" <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:

>Hi Fabio,
>
>On 9 August 2014 16:29, Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 9 August 2014 16:01, Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Simon,
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:
>>>>> This code came from another project. Correct the spelling now that
>>>>>it is
>>>>> in U-Boot.
>>>>
>>>> ....
>>>>
>>>>> - col: terminal.Color() object
>>>>> + col: terminal.Colour() object
>>>>
>>>> I thought that both forms were correct and that "color" is the
>>>> American way and "colour" the British one.
>>>
>>> Yes, but U-Boot doesn't use American English as I understand it, so
>>
>> I think it just depends on the code's author preference as both
>> formats are valid.
>>
>> Doing a quick grep in U-boot source:
>>
>> $ git grep color | wc -l
>> 646
>> $ git grep colour | wc -l
>> 43
>
>Yes that may well be true :-)

I am not bothered by either spelling. But I hate my computer automatically
corrects it.

York