Re: Update to the serial driver

Matthew Wilcox (willy@odie.barnet.ac.uk)
Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:22:46 +0100 (BST)

Michael K. Johnson
>
>
> Matthew Wilcox writes:
> >> From: tytso@mit.edu
> ...
> >Please apply a search and replace cannonicalize -> canonicalise. There
> >are few things more annoying than misspelt functions.
>
> Matthew, mit.edu is in the united states. Over this side of the pond,
> we don't use quite all the same spellings that you do. One particular
> example is that we tend to use -ize where you use -ise.

You wouldn't believe quite how many flames I've got over this. I know
many won't believe me, but I didn't even notice the ise/ize. I was
referring to the doubled n. I have no idea whether the linux kernel
contains british or american spellings.
<sigh>

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