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author | Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> | 2007-05-09 07:35:06 +0200 |
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committer | Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | 2007-05-09 08:58:15 +0200 |
commit | a982ac06b069f6ee9ea1b64f4ce68cdf2e138742 (patch) | |
tree | fb120a416db15d09722e8780b7a09d0da1a9b94e | |
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misc doc and kconfig typos
Fix various typos in kernel docs and Kconfigs, 2.6.21-rc4.
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
29 files changed, 40 insertions, 40 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt index d389388..0d82407 100644 --- a/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt @@ -480,8 +480,8 @@ The PCI stack provides 3 possible levels of MSI disabling: 6.1. Disabling MSI on a single device -Under some circumstances, it might be required to disable MSI on a -single device, It may be achived by either not calling pci_enable_msi() +Under some circumstances it might be required to disable MSI on a +single device. This may be achieved by either not calling pci_enable_msi() or all, or setting the pci_dev->no_msi flag before (most of the time in a quirk). @@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ being able to route MSI between busses. In this case, MSI have to be disabled on all devices behind this bridge. It is achieves by setting the PCI_BUS_FLAGS_NO_MSI flag in the pci_bus->bus_flags of the bridge subordinate bus. There is no need to set the same flag on bridges that -are below the broken brigde. When pci_enable_msi() is called to enable +are below the broken bridge. When pci_enable_msi() is called to enable MSI on a device, pci_msi_supported() takes care of checking the NO_MSI flag in all parent busses of the device. diff --git a/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt b/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt index 96ccf68..1b930ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt @@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ Intro ----- With the introduction of cfq v3 (aka cfq-ts or time sliced cfq), basic io -priorities is supported for reads on files. This enables users to io nice -processes or process groups, similar to what has been possible to cpu -scheduling for ages. This document mainly details the current possibilites -with cfq, other io schedulers do not support io priorities so far. +priorities are supported for reads on files. This enables users to io nice +processes or process groups, similar to what has been possible with cpu +scheduling for ages. This document mainly details the current possibilities +with cfq; other io schedulers do not support io priorities thus far. Scheduling classes ------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt index 53d62c1..fc64749 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Contents 1. Introduction -cpufreq-stats is a driver that provices CPU frequency statistics for each CPU. +cpufreq-stats is a driver that provides CPU frequency statistics for each CPU. These statistics are provided in /sysfs as a bunch of read_only interfaces. This interface (when configured) will appear in a separate directory under cpufreq in /sysfs (<sysfs root>/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/stats/) for each CPU. diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt index c5491c2..19c4a6e 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ host bridges to peripheral buses, and most controllers integrated into system-on-chip platforms. What they usually have in common is direct addressing from a CPU bus. Rarely, a platform_device will be connected through a segment of some other kind of bus; but its -registers will still be directly addressible. +registers will still be directly addressable. Platform devices are given a name, used in driver binding, and a list of resources such as addresses and IRQs. diff --git a/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt b/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt index 7590285..316ec9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt +++ b/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ How to use it? ============== Imacfb does not have any kind of autodetection of your machine. -You have to add the fillowing kernel parameters in your elilo.conf: +You have to add the following kernel parameters in your elilo.conf: Macbook : video=imacfb:macbook MacMini : diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt index 38aba03..fa45c3b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ History 2.07 More fixes for Warp Server. Now it really works 2.08 Creating new files is not so slow on large disks An attempt to sync deleted file does not generate filesystem error -2.09 Fixed error on extremly fragmented files +2.09 Fixed error on extremely fragmented files vim: set textwidth=80: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt index 8177906..8ee10ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ end of the line. Note the "Should sync?" parameter "nosync" means that the two mirrors are already in sync which will be the case on a clean shutdown of Windows. If the mirrors are not clean, you can specify the "sync" option instead of "nosync" -and the Device-Mapper driver will then copy the entirey of the "Source Device" +and the Device-Mapper driver will then copy the entirety of the "Source Device" to the "Target Device" or if you specified multipled target devices to all of them. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt index 7fbb6ff..18d23f9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ If the current buffer is full, i.e. all sub-buffers remain unconsumed, the callback returns 0 to indicate that the buffer switch should not occur yet, i.e. until the consumer has had a chance to read the current set of ready sub-buffers. For the relay_buf_full() function -to make sense, the consumer is reponsible for notifying the relay +to make sense, the consumer is responsible for notifying the relay interface when sub-buffers have been consumed via relay_subbufs_consumed(). Any subsequent attempts to write into the buffer will again invoke the subbuf_start() callback with the same diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt index 6c0cef1..3cc4010 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ completely. With execute-in-place, read&write type operations are performed directly from/to the memory backed storage device. For file mappings, the storage device itself is mapped directly into userspace. -This implementation was initialy written for shared memory segments between +This implementation was initially written for shared memory segments between different virtual machines on s390 hardware to allow multiple machines to share the same binaries and libraries. diff --git a/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/gdbstub.txt b/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/gdbstub.txt index 9304fb3..b92bfd9 100644 --- a/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/gdbstub.txt +++ b/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/gdbstub.txt @@ -126,5 +126,5 @@ GDB stub and the debugger: Furthermore, the GDB stub will intercept a number of exceptions automatically if they are caused by kernel execution. It will also intercept BUG() macro -invokation. +invocation. diff --git a/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt b/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt index 668f4d0..ab05062 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt @@ -179,9 +179,9 @@ reporting mode for joystick 1, with both buttons being logically assigned to the mouse. After any joystick command, the ikbd assumes that joysticks are connected to both Joystick0 and Joystick1. Any mouse command (except MOUSE DISABLE) then causes port 0 to again be scanned as if it were a mouse, and -both buttons are logically connected to it. If a mouse diable command is +both buttons are logically connected to it. If a mouse disable command is received while port 0 is presumed to be a mouse, the button is logically -assigned to Joystick1 ( until the mouse is reenabled by another mouse command). +assigned to Joystick1 (until the mouse is reenabled by another mouse command). 9. ikbd Command Set diff --git a/Documentation/input/xpad.txt b/Documentation/input/xpad.txt index 5427bdf..aae0d40 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/xpad.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/xpad.txt @@ -65,15 +65,15 @@ of buttons, see section 0.3 - Unknown Controllers I've tested this with Stepmania, and it works quite well. -0.3 Unkown Controllers +0.3 Unknown Controllers ---------------------- -If you have an unkown xbox controller, it should work just fine with +If you have an unknown xbox controller, it should work just fine with the default settings. HOWEVER if you have an unknown dance pad not listed below, it will not work UNLESS you set "dpad_to_buttons" to 1 in the module configuration. -PLEASE if you have an unkown controller, email Dom <binary1230@yahoo.com> with +PLEASE, if you have an unknown controller, email Dom <binary1230@yahoo.com> with a dump from /proc/bus/usb and a description of the pad (manufacturer, country, whether it is a dance pad or normal controller) so that we can add your pad to the list of supported devices, ensuring that it will work out of the diff --git a/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt index fb8dc64..7907435 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ on current cpu. This primitive is called by dev->poll(), when it completes its work. The device cannot be out of poll list at this call, if it is then clearly it is a BUG(). You'll know ;-> -All these above nethods are used below. So keep reading for clarity. +All of the above methods are used below, so keep reading for clarity. Device driver changes to be made when porting NAPI ================================================== diff --git a/Documentation/networking/udplite.txt b/Documentation/networking/udplite.txt index dd6f46b..6be09ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/udplite.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/udplite.txt @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ 3) Disabling the Checksum Computation On both sender and receiver, checksumming will always be performed - and can not be disabled using SO_NO_CHECK. Thus + and cannot be disabled using SO_NO_CHECK. Thus setsockopt(sockfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_NO_CHECK, ... ); diff --git a/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt b/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt index 07dd6d9..bc2ab41 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ REVISION HISTORY creating applications using BiSync streaming. -2.0.5 Aug 04, 1999 CHDLC initializatin bug fix. +2.0.5 Aug 04, 1999 CHDLC initialization bug fix. PPP interrupt driven driver: Fix to the PPP line hangup problem. New PPP firmware @@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ REVISION HISTORY o cfgft1 GUI csu/dsu configurator o wancfg GUI configuration file configurator. - o Architectual directory changes. + o Architectural directory changes. beta-2.1.4 Jul 2000 o Dynamic interface configuration: Network interfaces reflect the state diff --git a/Documentation/pnp.txt b/Documentation/pnp.txt index 28037aa..481faf5 100644 --- a/Documentation/pnp.txt +++ b/Documentation/pnp.txt @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ Plug and Play but it is planned to be in the near future. Requirements for a Linux PnP protocol: 1.) the protocol must use EISA IDs 2.) the protocol must inform the PnP Layer of a devices current configuration -- the ability to set resources is optional but prefered. +- the ability to set resources is optional but preferred. The following are PnP protocol related functions: diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt index c141f23..b49ce16 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt @@ -1633,7 +1633,7 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model. - assignment : function number of the pin according to the Pin Assignment tables in User Manual. Each pin can have up to 4 possible functions in QE and two options for CPM. - - has_irq : indicates if the pin is used as source of exteral + - has_irq : indicates if the pin is used as source of external interrupts. Example: diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt index 9b894f1..5f34d2b 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ The following information is available in this file: 2. Multi-function Twin Channel Device - Two controllers on one chip. 3. Command Channel Secondary DMA Engine - Allows scatter gather list and SCB prefetch. - 4. 64 Byte SCB Support - Allows disconnected, unttagged request table + 4. 64 Byte SCB Support - Allows disconnected, untagged request table for all possible target/lun combinations. 5. Block Move Instruction Support - Doubles the speed of certain sequencer operations. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt index 05667e7..7bd210a 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ linux-1.1.x and fairly stable since linux-1.2.x, and are also in FreeBSD or enable Tagged Command Queueing (TCQ) on specific devices. As of driver version 5.1.11, TCQ is now either on or off by default according to the setting you choose during the make config process. - In order to en/disable TCQ for certian devices at boot time, a user + In order to en/disable TCQ for certain devices at boot time, a user may use this boot param. The driver will then parse this message out and en/disable the specific device entries that are present based upon the value given. The param line is parsed in the following manner: diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt b/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt index 88ef88b..39d409a8 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt @@ -1260,7 +1260,7 @@ then the request of the IRQ obviously will not succeed for all the drivers. 15.1 Problem tracking Most SCSI problems are due to a non conformant SCSI bus or to buggy -devices. If infortunately you have SCSI problems, you can check the +devices. If unfortunately you have SCSI problems, you can check the following things: - SCSI bus cables diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt b/Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt index 2c1745a..3d9f06b 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt @@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ devices, ... may cause a SCSI signal to be wrong when te driver reads it. 15.1 Problem tracking Most SCSI problems are due to a non conformant SCSI bus or too buggy -devices. If infortunately you have SCSI problems, you can check the +devices. If unfortunately you have SCSI problems, you can check the following things: - SCSI bus cables diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index d3d3c25..111fd28 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ Controls the kernel's behaviour when an oops or BUG is encountered. 0: try to continue operation -1: panic immediatly. If the `panic' sysctl is also non-zero then the +1: panic immediately. If the `panic' sysctl is also non-zero then the machine will be rebooted. ============================================================== diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-at91/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-at91/Kconfig index e238ad8..018d637 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mach-at91/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/mach-at91/Kconfig @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ config ARCH_AT91SAM9260_SAM9XE depends on ARCH_AT91SAM9260 help Select this if you are using Atmel's AT91SAM9XE System-on-Chip. - They are basicaly AT91SAM9260s with various sizes of embedded Flash. + They are basically AT91SAM9260s with various sizes of embedded Flash. comment "AT91SAM9260 / AT91SAM9XE Board Type" diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap1/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-omap1/Kconfig index 8781aae..c7e229b 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap1/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap1/Kconfig @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ config MACH_OMAP_PALMTE Support for the Palm Tungsten E PDA. Currently only the LCD panel is supported. To boot the kernel, you'll need a PalmOS compatible bootloader; check out http://palmtelinux.sourceforge.net for more - informations. + information. Say Y here if you have such a PDA, say NO otherwise. config MACH_NOKIA770 diff --git a/drivers/isdn/capi/Kconfig b/drivers/isdn/capi/Kconfig index c921d6c..c92f9d7 100644 --- a/drivers/isdn/capi/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/isdn/capi/Kconfig @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ config CAPI_TRACE help If you say Y here, the kernelcapi driver can make verbose traces of CAPI messages. This feature can be enabled/disabled via IOCTL for - every controler (default disabled). + every controller (default disabled). This will increase the size of the kernelcapi module by 20 KB. If unsure, say Y. diff --git a/drivers/media/video/pwc/philips.txt b/drivers/media/video/pwc/philips.txt index f5e8484..f9f3584 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/pwc/philips.txt +++ b/drivers/media/video/pwc/philips.txt @@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ fps Specifies the desired framerate. Is an integer in the range of 4-30. fbufs - This paramter specifies the number of internal buffers to use for storing + This parameter specifies the number of internal buffers to use for storing frames from the cam. This will help if the process that reads images from - the cam is a bit slow or momentarely busy. However, on slow machines it + the cam is a bit slow or momentarily busy. However, on slow machines it only introduces lag, so choose carefully. The default is 3, which is reasonable. You can set it between 2 and 5. @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ trace 128 0x80 PWCX debugging Off - For example, to trace the open() & read() fuctions, sum 8 + 4 = 12, + For example, to trace the open() & read() functions, sum 8 + 4 = 12, so you would supply trace=12 during insmod or modprobe. If you want to turn the initialization and probing tracing off, set trace=0. The default value for trace is 35 (0x23). diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_history.txt b/drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_history.txt index d6b4c60..ddc7ae0 100644 --- a/drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_history.txt +++ b/drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_history.txt @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ mpi_fc.h * 11-02-00 01.01.01 Original release for post 1.0 work * 12-04-00 01.01.02 Added messages for Common Transport Send and * Primitive Send. - * 01-09-01 01.01.03 Modifed some of the new flags to have an MPI prefix + * 01-09-01 01.01.03 Modified some of the new flags to have an MPI prefix * and modified the FcPrimitiveSend flags. * 01-25-01 01.01.04 Move InitiatorIndex in LinkServiceRsp reply to a larger * field. diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig index d990d81..5fcd8b3 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ config MTD_PHYSMAP_BANKWIDTH (i.e., run-time calling physmap_configure()). config MTD_PHYSMAP_OF - tristate "Flash device in physical memory map based on OF descirption" + tristate "Flash device in physical memory map based on OF description" depends on PPC_OF && (MTD_CFI || MTD_JEDECPROBE || MTD_ROM) help This provides a 'mapping' driver which allows the NOR Flash and diff --git a/sound/core/Kconfig b/sound/core/Kconfig index b292752..829ca38 100644 --- a/sound/core/Kconfig +++ b/sound/core/Kconfig @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ config SND_VERBOSE_PROCFS default y help Say Y here to include code for verbose procfs contents (provides - usefull information to developers when a problem occurs). On the + useful information to developers when a problem occurs). On the other side, it makes the ALSA subsystem larger. config SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK |