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diff --git a/Documentation/Intel-IOMMU.txt b/Documentation/Intel-IOMMU.txt index c232190..21bc416 100644 --- a/Documentation/Intel-IOMMU.txt +++ b/Documentation/Intel-IOMMU.txt @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ IOVA generation is pretty generic. We used the same technique as vmalloc() but these are not global address spaces, but separate for each domain. Different DMA engines may support different number of domains. -We also allocate gaurd pages with each mapping, so we can attempt to catch +We also allocate guard pages with each mapping, so we can attempt to catch any overflow that might happen. @@ -112,4 +112,4 @@ TBD - For compatibility testing, could use unity map domain for all devices, just provide a 1-1 for all useful memory under a single domain for all devices. -- API for paravirt ops for abstracting functionlity for VMM folks. +- API for paravirt ops for abstracting functionality for VMM folks. diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt index b988d11..e7512c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt +++ b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This document contains an explanation of the struct taskstats fields. There are three different groups of fields in the struct taskstats: 1) Common and basic accounting fields - If CONFIG_TASKSTATS is set, the taskstats inteface is enabled and + If CONFIG_TASKSTATS is set, the taskstats interface is enabled and the common fields and basic accounting fields are collected for delivery at do_exit() of a task. 2) Delay accounting fields diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt index dcec056..5b0cfa6 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ around '10000' or more. show_sampling_rate_(min|max): the minimum and maximum sampling rates available that you may set 'sampling_rate' to. -up_threshold: defines what the average CPU usaged between the samplings +up_threshold: defines what the average CPU usage between the samplings of 'sampling_rate' needs to be for the kernel to make a decision on whether it should increase the frequency. For example when it is set to its default value of '80' it means that between the checking diff --git a/Documentation/edac.txt b/Documentation/edac.txt index ced5273..8eda3fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/edac.txt +++ b/Documentation/edac.txt @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ Sdram memory scrubbing rate: 'sdram_scrub_rate' Read/Write attribute file that controls memory scrubbing. The scrubbing - rate is set by writing a minimum bandwith in bytes/sec to the attribute + rate is set by writing a minimum bandwidth in bytes/sec to the attribute file. The rate will be translated to an internal value that gives at least the specified rate. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 8c6384b..6455782 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -931,7 +931,7 @@ group_prealloc max_to_scan mb_groups mb_history min_to_scan order2_req stats stream_req mb_groups: -This file gives the details of mutiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks +This file gives the details of multiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks mb_history: Multiblock allocation history. @@ -1474,7 +1474,7 @@ used because pages_free(1355) is smaller than watermark + protection[2] normal page requirement. If requirement is DMA zone(index=0), protection[0] (=0) is used. -zone[i]'s protection[j] is calculated by following exprssion. +zone[i]'s protection[j] is calculated by following expression. (i < j): zone[i]->protection[j] diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index b7522c6..c4d348d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ struct file_system_type { The get_sb() method has the following arguments: - struct file_system_type *fs_type: decribes the filesystem, partly initialized + struct file_system_type *fs_type: describes the filesystem, partly initialized by the specific filesystem code int flags: mount flags @@ -895,9 +895,9 @@ struct dentry_operations { iput() yourself d_dname: called when the pathname of a dentry should be generated. - Usefull for some pseudo filesystems (sockfs, pipefs, ...) to delay + Useful for some pseudo filesystems (sockfs, pipefs, ...) to delay pathname generation. (Instead of doing it when dentry is created, - its done only when the path is needed.). Real filesystems probably + it's done only when the path is needed.). Real filesystems probably dont want to use it, because their dentries are present in global dcache hash, so their hash should be an invariant. As no lock is held, d_dname() should not try to modify the dentry itself, unless diff --git a/Documentation/ia64/kvm.txt b/Documentation/ia64/kvm.txt index bec9d81..914d07f 100644 --- a/Documentation/ia64/kvm.txt +++ b/Documentation/ia64/kvm.txt @@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ Note: For step 2, please make sure that host page size == TARGET_PAGE_SIZE of qe /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-ia64 -smp xx -m 512 -hda $your_image (xx is the number of virtual processors for the guest, now the maximum value is 4) -5. Known possibile issue on some platforms with old Firmware. +5. Known possible issue on some platforms with old Firmware. -If meet strange host crashe issues, try to solve it through either of the following ways: +In the event of strange host crash issues, try to solve it through either of the following ways: (1): Upgrade your Firmware to the latest one. @@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ index 0b53344..f02b0f7 100644 mov ar.pfs = loc1 mov rp = loc0 ;; -- srlz.d // seralize restoration of psr.l -+ srlz.i // seralize restoration of psr.l +- srlz.d // serialize restoration of psr.l ++ srlz.i // serialize restoration of psr.l + ;; br.ret.sptk.many b0 END(ia64_pal_call_static) diff --git a/Documentation/input/cs461x.txt b/Documentation/input/cs461x.txt index afe0d65..202e9dba 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/cs461x.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/cs461x.txt @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ The driver works with ALSA drivers simultaneously. For example, the xracer uses joystick as input device and PCM device as sound output in one time. There are no sound or input collisions detected. The source code have comments about them; but I've found the joystick can be initialized -separately of ALSA modules. So, you canm use only one joystick driver +separately of ALSA modules. So, you can use only one joystick driver without ALSA drivers. The ALSA drivers are not needed to compile or run this driver. diff --git a/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-decoding.txt b/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-decoding.txt index bfdf7f3..e35efb0 100644 --- a/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-decoding.txt +++ b/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-decoding.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ To decode a hex IOCTL code: -Most architecures use this generic format, but check +Most architectures use this generic format, but check include/ARCH/ioctl.h for specifics, e.g. powerpc uses 3 bits to encode read/write and 13 bits for size. @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ uses 3 bits to encode read/write and 13 bits for size. 7-0 function # - So for example 0x82187201 is a read with arg length of 0x218, +So for example 0x82187201 is a read with arg length of 0x218, character 'r' function 1. Grepping the source reveals this is: #define VFAT_IOCTL_READDIR_BOTH _IOR('r', 1, struct dirent [2]) diff --git a/Documentation/iostats.txt b/Documentation/iostats.txt index 5925c3c..59a69ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/iostats.txt +++ b/Documentation/iostats.txt @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ disk and partition statistics are consistent again. Since we still don't keep record of the partition-relative address, an operation is attributed to the partition which contains the first sector of the request after the eventual merges. As requests can be merged across partition, this could lead -to some (probably insignificant) innacuracy. +to some (probably insignificant) inaccuracy. Additional notes ---------------- diff --git a/Documentation/keys.txt b/Documentation/keys.txt index d5c7a57d..b56aacc 100644 --- a/Documentation/keys.txt +++ b/Documentation/keys.txt @@ -864,7 +864,7 @@ payload contents" for more information. request_key_with_auxdata() respectively. These two functions return with the key potentially still under - construction. To wait for contruction completion, the following should be + construction. To wait for construction completion, the following should be called: int wait_for_key_construction(struct key *key, bool intr); diff --git a/Documentation/leds-class.txt b/Documentation/leds-class.txt index 18860ad..6399557 100644 --- a/Documentation/leds-class.txt +++ b/Documentation/leds-class.txt @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Hardware accelerated blink of LEDs Some LEDs can be programmed to blink without any CPU interaction. To support this feature, a LED driver can optionally implement the -blink_set() function (see <linux/leds.h>). If implemeted, triggers can +blink_set() function (see <linux/leds.h>). If implemented, triggers can attempt to use it before falling back to software timers. The blink_set() function should return 0 if the blink setting is supported, or -EINVAL otherwise, which means that LED blinking will be handled by software. diff --git a/Documentation/local_ops.txt b/Documentation/local_ops.txt index 4269a11..f4f8b1c 100644 --- a/Documentation/local_ops.txt +++ b/Documentation/local_ops.txt @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ It can be done by slightly modifying the standard atomic operations : only their UP variant must be kept. It typically means removing LOCK prefix (on i386 and x86_64) and any SMP sychronization barrier. If the architecture does not have a different behavior between SMP and UP, including asm-generic/local.h -in your archtecture's local.h is sufficient. +in your architecture's local.h is sufficient. The local_t type is defined as an opaque signed long by embedding an atomic_long_t inside a structure. This is made so a cast from this type to a diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index 7fa7fe7..688dfe1 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ xmit_hash_policy in environments where a layer3 gateway device is required to reach most destinations. - This algorithm is 802.3ad complient. + This algorithm is 802.3ad compliant. layer3+4 diff --git a/Documentation/networking/can.txt b/Documentation/networking/can.txt index 641d2af..297ba7b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/can.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/can.txt @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ solution for a couple of reasons: The Linux network devices (by default) just can handle the transmission and reception of media dependent frames. Due to the - arbritration on the CAN bus the transmission of a low prio CAN-ID + arbitration on the CAN bus the transmission of a low prio CAN-ID may be delayed by the reception of a high prio CAN frame. To reflect the correct* traffic on the node the loopback of the sent data has to be performed right after a successful transmission. If @@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ solution for a couple of reasons: - stats_timer: To calculate the Socket CAN core statistics (e.g. current/maximum frames per second) this 1 second timer is invoked at can.ko module start time by default. This timer can be - disabled by using stattimer=0 on the module comandline. + disabled by using stattimer=0 on the module commandline. - debug: (removed since SocketCAN SVN r546) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt index db0cd51..07c53d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ just one call to mmap is needed: mmap(0, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); If tp_frame_size is a divisor of tp_block_size frames will be -contiguosly spaced by tp_frame_size bytes. If not, each +contiguously spaced by tp_frame_size bytes. If not, each tp_block_size/tp_frame_size frames there will be a gap between the frames. This is because a frame cannot be spawn across two blocks. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tc-actions-env-rules.txt b/Documentation/networking/tc-actions-env-rules.txt index 01e716d..dcadf6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/tc-actions-env-rules.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/tc-actions-env-rules.txt @@ -4,26 +4,27 @@ The "enviromental" rules for authors of any new tc actions are: 1) If you stealeth or borroweth any packet thou shalt be branching from the righteous path and thou shalt cloneth. -For example if your action queues a packet to be processed later -or intentionaly branches by redirecting a packet then you need to +For example if your action queues a packet to be processed later, +or intentionally branches by redirecting a packet, then you need to clone the packet. + There are certain fields in the skb tc_verd that need to be reset so we -avoid loops etc. A few are generic enough so much so that skb_act_clone() -resets them for you. So invoke skb_act_clone() rather than skb_clone() +avoid loops, etc. A few are generic enough that skb_act_clone() +resets them for you, so invoke skb_act_clone() rather than skb_clone(). 2) If you munge any packet thou shalt call pskb_expand_head in the case someone else is referencing the skb. After that you "own" the skb. You must also tell us if it is ok to munge the packet (TC_OK2MUNGE), this way any action downstream can stomp on the packet. -3) dropping packets you dont own is a nono. You simply return +3) Dropping packets you don't own is a no-no. You simply return TC_ACT_SHOT to the caller and they will drop it. The "enviromental" rules for callers of actions (qdiscs etc) are: -*) thou art responsible for freeing anything returned as being +*) Thou art responsible for freeing anything returned as being TC_ACT_SHOT/STOLEN/QUEUED. If none of TC_ACT_SHOT/STOLEN/QUEUED is -returned then all is great and you dont need to do anything. +returned, then all is great and you don't need to do anything. Post on netdev if something is unclear. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt index 99514ce..928a79c 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt @@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ device or bus to be described by the device tree. In general, the format of an address for a device is defined by the parent bus type, based on the #address-cells and #size-cells properties. Note that the parent's parent definitions of #address-cells -and #size-cells are not inhereted so every node with children must specify +and #size-cells are not inherited so every node with children must specify them. The kernel requires the root node to have those properties defining addresses format for devices directly mapped on the processor bus. @@ -1777,7 +1777,7 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model. Xilinx uartlite devices are simple fixed speed serial ports. - Requred properties: + Required properties: - current-speed : Baud rate of uartlite v) Xilinx hwicap @@ -1799,7 +1799,7 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model. Xilinx UART 16550 devices are very similar to the NS16550 but with different register spacing and an offset from the base address. - Requred properties: + Required properties: - clock-frequency : Frequency of the clock input - reg-offset : A value of 3 is required - reg-shift : A value of 2 is required @@ -1953,7 +1953,7 @@ prefixed with the string "marvell,", for Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 1) The /system-controller node This node is used to represent the system-controller and must be - present when the system uses a system contller chip. The top-level + present when the system uses a system controller chip. The top-level system-controller node contains information that is global to all devices within the system controller chip. The node name begins with "system-controller" followed by the unit address, which is diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.txt index 8962664..06da4d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.txt @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ Although it is not recommended, you can specify '0' in the soc.model field to skip matching SOCs altogether. The 'model' field is a 16-bit number that matches the actual SOC. The -'major' and 'minor' fields are the major and minor revision numbrs, +'major' and 'minor' fields are the major and minor revision numbers, respectively, of the SOC. For example, to match the 8323, revision 1.0: diff --git a/Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt b/Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt index e938c44..bde473d 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt +++ b/Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ device 4711 via subchannel 1 in subchannel set 0, and subchannel 2 is a non-I/O subchannel. Device 1234 is accessed via subchannel 0 in subchannel set 1. The subchannel named 'defunct' does not represent any real subchannel on the -system; it is a pseudo subchannel where disconnnected ccw devices are moved to +system; it is a pseudo subchannel where disconnected ccw devices are moved to if they are displaced by another ccw device becoming operational on their former subchannel. The ccw devices will be moved again to a proper subchannel if they become operational again on that subchannel. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt b/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt index a810421..3920f28 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt @@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ - Michael Lang June 25 1997: (v1.8b) - 1) Some cosmetical changes for the handling of SCSI-device-types. + 1) Some cosmetic changes for the handling of SCSI-device-types. Now, also CD-Burners / WORMs and SCSI-scanners should work. For MO-drives I have no experience, therefore not yet supported. In logical_devices I changed from different type-variables to one @@ -914,7 +914,7 @@ in version 4.0. This was never really necessary, as all troubles were based on non-command related reasons up to now, so bypassing commands did not help to avoid any bugs. It is kept in 3.2X for debugging reasons. - 5) Dynamical reassignment of ldns was again verified and analyzed to be + 5) Dynamic reassignment of ldns was again verified and analyzed to be completely inoperational. This is corrected and should work now. 6) All commands that get sent to the SCSI adapter were verified and completed in such a way, that they are now completely conform to the @@ -1386,7 +1386,7 @@ concerning the Linux-kernel in special, this SCSI-driver comes without any warranty. Its functionality is tested as good as possible on certain machines and combinations of computer hardware, which does not exclude, - that dataloss or severe damage of hardware is possible while using this + that data loss or severe damage of hardware is possible while using this part of software on some arbitrary computer hardware or in combination with other software packages. It is highly recommended to make backup copies of your data before using this software. Furthermore, personal diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/lpfc.txt b/Documentation/scsi/lpfc.txt index 4dbe413..5741ea8 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/lpfc.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/lpfc.txt @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Cable pull and temporary device Loss: being removed, a switch rebooting, or a device reboot), the driver could hide the disappearance of the device from the midlayer. I/O's issued to the LLDD would simply be queued for a short duration, allowing the device - to reappear or link come back alive, with no inadvertant side effects + to reappear or link come back alive, with no inadvertent side effects to the system. If the driver did not hide these conditions, i/o would be errored by the driver, the mid-layer would exhaust its retries, and the device would be taken offline. Manual intervention would be required to diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt index d403e46..75143f0 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Overview: discussion will concentrate on NPIV. Note: World Wide Name assignment (and uniqueness guarantees) are left - up to an administrative entity controling the vport. For example, + up to an administrative entity controlling the vport. For example, if vports are to be associated with virtual machines, a XEN mgmt utility would be responsible for creating wwpn/wwnn's for the vport, using it's own naming authority and OUI. (Note: it already does this @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ Device Trees and Vport Objects: Here's what to expect in the device tree : The typical Physical Port's Scsi_Host: /sys/devices/.../host17/ - and it has the typical decendent tree: + and it has the typical descendant tree: /sys/devices/.../host17/rport-17:0-0/target17:0:0/17:0:0:0: and then the vport is created on the Physical Port: /sys/devices/.../host17/vport-17:0-0 @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ Vport States: independent of the adapter's link state. - Instantiation of the vport on the FC link via ELS traffic, etc. This is equivalent to a "link up" and successfull link initialization. - Futher information can be found in the interfaces section below for + Further information can be found in the interfaces section below for Vport Creation. Once a vport has been instantiated with the kernel/LLDD, a vport state diff --git a/Documentation/sh/clk.txt b/Documentation/sh/clk.txt index 9aef710..114b595 100644 --- a/Documentation/sh/clk.txt +++ b/Documentation/sh/clk.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ means no changes to adjanced clock Internally, the clk_set_rate_ex forwards request to clk->ops->set_rate method, if it is present in ops structure. The method should set the clock rate and adjust all needed clocks according to the passed algo_id. -Exact values for algo_id are machine-dependend. For the sh7722, the following +Exact values for algo_id are machine-dependent. For the sh7722, the following values are defined: NO_CHANGE = 0, diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audiophile-Usb.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audiophile-Usb.txt index 2ad5e63..a4c53d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audiophile-Usb.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audiophile-Usb.txt @@ -236,15 +236,15 @@ The parameter can be given: alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio options snd-usb-audio index=1 device_setup=0x09 -CAUTION when initializaing the device +CAUTION when initializing the device ------------------------------------- * Correct initialization on the device requires that device_setup is given to the module BEFORE the device is turned on. So, if you use the "manual probing" method described above, take care to power-on the device AFTER this initialization. - * Failing to respect this will lead in a misconfiguration of the device. In this case - turn off the device, unproble the snd-usb-audio module, then probe it again with + * Failing to respect this will lead to a misconfiguration of the device. In this case + turn off the device, unprobe the snd-usb-audio module, then probe it again with correct device_setup parameter and then (and only then) turn on the device again. * If you've correctly initialized the device in a valid mode and then want to switch @@ -388,9 +388,9 @@ There are 2 main potential issues when using Jackd with the device: Jack supports big endian devices only in recent versions (thanks to Andreas Steinmetz for his first big-endian patch). I can't remember -extacly when this support was released into jackd, let's just say that +exactly when this support was released into jackd, let's just say that with jackd version 0.103.0 it's almost ok (just a small bug is affecting -16bits Big-Endian devices, but since you've read carefully the above +16bits Big-Endian devices, but since you've read carefully the above paragraphs, you're now using kernel >= 2.6.23 and your 16bits devices are now Little Endians ;-) ). diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/hda_codec.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/hda_codec.txt index 8e1b025..34e87ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/hda_codec.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/hda_codec.txt @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE kconfig. It's called when the codec needs to power up or may power down. The controller should check the all belonging codecs on the bus whether they are actually powered off (check codec->power_on), and optionally the driver may power down the -contoller side, too. +controller side, too. The bus instance is created via snd_hda_bus_new(). You need to pass the card instance, the template, and the pointer to store the diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/dapm.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/dapm.txt index c784a18..b2ed698 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/dapm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/dapm.txt @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Audio DAPM widgets fall into a number of types:- (Widgets are defined in include/sound/soc-dapm.h) Widgets are usually added in the codec driver and the machine driver. There are -convience macros defined in soc-dapm.h that can be used to quickly build a +convenience macros defined in soc-dapm.h that can be used to quickly build a list of widgets of the codecs and machines DAPM widgets. Most widgets have a name, register, shift and invert. Some widgets have extra diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 8a4863c..d79eeda 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ of kilobytes free. The VM uses this number to compute a pages_min value for each lowmem zone in the system. Each lowmem zone gets a number of reserved free pages based proportionally on its size. -Some minimal ammount of memory is needed to satisfy PF_MEMALLOC +Some minimal amount of memory is needed to satisfy PF_MEMALLOC allocations; if you set this to lower than 1024KB, your system will become subtly broken, and prone to deadlock under high loads. diff --git a/Documentation/timers/highres.txt b/Documentation/timers/highres.txt index a73ecf5..2133223 100644 --- a/Documentation/timers/highres.txt +++ b/Documentation/timers/highres.txt @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ increase of flexibility and the avoidance of duplicated code across architectures justifies the slight increase of the binary size. The conversion of an architecture has no functional impact, but allows to -utilize the high resolution and dynamic tick functionalites without any change +utilize the high resolution and dynamic tick functionalities without any change to the clock event device and timer interrupt code. After the conversion the enabling of high resolution timers and dynamic ticks is simply provided by adding the kernel/time/Kconfig file to the architecture specific Kconfig and diff --git a/Documentation/usb/authorization.txt b/Documentation/usb/authorization.txt index 2af4006..381b22e 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/authorization.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/authorization.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ not) in a system. This feature will allow you to implement a lock-down of USB devices, fully controlled by user space. As of now, when a USB device is connected it is configured and -it's interfaces inmediately made available to the users. With this +its interfaces are immediately made available to the users. With this modification, only if root authorizes the device to be configured will then it be possible to use it. diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/sn9c102.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/sn9c102.txt index b26f519..73de405 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/sn9c102.txt +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/sn9c102.txt @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ Loading can be done as shown below: [root@localhost home]# modprobe sn9c102 -Note that the module is called "sn9c102" for historic reasons, althought it +Note that the module is called "sn9c102" for historic reasons, although it does not just support the SN9C102. At this point all the devices supported by the driver and connected to the USB diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt index 8a5b576..ea8714f 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ memory that is preset in system at this time. System administrators may want to put this command in one of the local rc init files. This will enable the kernel to request huge pages early in the boot process (when the possibility of getting physical contiguous pages is still very high). In either -case, adminstrators will want to verify the number of hugepages actually +case, administrators will want to verify the number of hugepages actually allocated by checking the sysctl or meminfo. /proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages indicates how large the pool of diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt index bad16d3..6aaaeb3 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ most general to most specific: the policy at the time they were allocated. VMA Policy: A "VMA" or "Virtual Memory Area" refers to a range of a task's - virtual adddress space. A task may define a specific policy for a range + virtual address space. A task may define a specific policy for a range of its virtual address space. See the MEMORY POLICIES APIS section, below, for an overview of the mbind() system call used to set a VMA policy. @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ follows: Because of this extra reference counting, and because we must lookup shared policies in a tree structure under spinlock, shared policies are - more expensive to use in the page allocation path. This is expecially + more expensive to use in the page allocation path. This is especially true for shared policies on shared memory regions shared by tasks running on different NUMA nodes. This extra overhead can be avoided by always falling back to task or system default policy for shared memory regions, diff --git a/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt b/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt index 10c2e41..991c26a 100644 --- a/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt +++ b/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt @@ -114,6 +114,6 @@ CREDITS Original impetus and research by Randy Dunlap Written by Jonathan Corbet -Improvements via coments from Satyam Sharma, Johannes Stezenbach, Jesper +Improvements via comments from Satyam Sharma, Johannes Stezenbach, Jesper Juhl, Heikki Orsila, H. Peter Anvin, Philipp Hahn, and Stefan Richter. diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_history.txt b/drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_history.txt index 241592ab..3f15fcf 100644 --- a/drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_history.txt +++ b/drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_history.txt @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ mpi_ioc.h * 08-08-01 01.02.01 Original release for v1.2 work. * New format for FWVersion and ProductId in * MSG_IOC_FACTS_REPLY and MPI_FW_HEADER. - * 08-31-01 01.02.02 Addded event MPI_EVENT_SCSI_DEVICE_STATUS_CHANGE and + * 08-31-01 01.02.02 Added event MPI_EVENT_SCSI_DEVICE_STATUS_CHANGE and * related structure and defines. * Added event MPI_EVENT_ON_BUS_TIMER_EXPIRED. * Added MPI_IOCINIT_FLAGS_DISCARD_FW_IMAGE. @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ mpi_ioc.h * 10-11-06 01.05.12 Added MPI_IOCFACTS_EXCEPT_METADATA_UNSUPPORTED. * Added MaxInitiators field to PortFacts reply. * Added SAS Device Status Change ReasonCode for - * asynchronous notificaiton. + * asynchronous notification. * Added MPI_EVENT_SAS_EXPANDER_STATUS_CHANGE and event * data structure. * Added new ImageType values for FWDownload and FWUpload @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ mpi_cnfg.h * Added _RESPONSE_ID_MASK definition to SCSI_PORT_1 * page and updated the page version. * Added Information field and _INFO_PARAMS_NEGOTIATED - * definitionto SCSI_DEVICE_0 page. + * definition to SCSI_DEVICE_0 page. * 06-22-00 01.00.03 Removed batch controls from LAN_0 page and updated the * page version. * Added BucketsRemaining to LAN_1 page, redefined the |