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

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Sun Aug 10 00:29:24 CEST 2014


On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 9 August 2014 16:01, Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at 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


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