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

Simon Glass
2014-08-09T22:34:47Z

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 :-)

Regards,
Simon