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

Tom Rini
2014-08-11T20:34:36Z

On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 04:34:47PM -0600, Simon Glass 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 :-)

... so lets drop this patch, thanks.

--
Tom
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