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diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt b/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt index 1d8dccf..028614c 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ The query is performed via a call to pci_set_dma_mask(): int pci_set_dma_mask(struct pci_dev *pdev, u64 device_mask); -The query for consistent allocations is performed via a a call to +The query for consistent allocations is performed via a call to pci_set_consistent_dma_mask(): int pci_set_consistent_dma_mask(struct pci_dev *pdev, u64 device_mask); diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl index 065e8dc..c684abf 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl @@ -1400,7 +1400,7 @@ and other resources, etc. <listitem> <para> When it's known that HBA is in ready state but ATA/ATAPI - device in in unknown state, reset only device. + device is in unknown state, reset only device. </para> </listitem> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/usb.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/usb.tmpl index fbc72d4..143e5ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/usb.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/usb.tmpl @@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ usbdev_ioctl (int fd, int ifno, unsigned request, void *param) <title>Synchronous I/O Support</title> <para>Synchronous requests involve the kernel blocking - until until the user mode request completes, either by + until the user mode request completes, either by finishing successfully or by reporting an error. In most cases this is the simplest way to use usbfs, although as noted above it does prevent performing I/O diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt index f8092a8..820fee2 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt @@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ Or, for those who prefer a side-by-side listing: Either way, the differences are quite small. Read-side locking moves to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock, update-side locking moves from -from a reader-writer lock to a simple spinlock, and a synchronize_rcu() +a reader-writer lock to a simple spinlock, and a synchronize_rcu() precedes the kfree(). However, there is one potential catch: the read-side and update-side diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt index e2f7dc6..34bf8f6 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Some new queue property settings: Sets two variables that limit the size of the request. - The request queue's max_sectors, which is a soft size in - in units of 512 byte sectors, and could be dynamically varied + units of 512 byte sectors, and could be dynamically varied by the core kernel. - The request queue's max_hw_sectors, which is a hard limit diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/overview.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/overview.txt index 2050c9f..07236ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/overview.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/overview.txt @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ the two. The PCI bus layer freely accesses the fields of struct device. It knows about the structure of struct pci_dev, and it should know the structure of struct -device. Individual PCI device drivers that have been converted the the current +device. Individual PCI device drivers that have been converted to the current driver model generally do not and should not touch the fields of struct device, unless there is a strong compelling reason to do so. diff --git a/Documentation/exception.txt b/Documentation/exception.txt index 3cb39ad..2d5aded 100644 --- a/Documentation/exception.txt +++ b/Documentation/exception.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ int verify_area(int type, const void * addr, unsigned long size) function (which has since been replaced by access_ok()). This function verified that the memory area starting at address -addr and of size size was accessible for the operation specified +'addr' and of size 'size' was accessible for the operation specified in type (read or write). To do this, verify_read had to look up the virtual memory area (vma) that contained the address addr. In the normal case (correctly working program), this test was successful. diff --git a/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt b/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt index f373df1..99ea58e 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt +++ b/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ from the console layer before unloading the driver. The VGA driver cannot be unloaded if it is still bound to the console layer. (See Documentation/console/console.txt for more information). -This is more complicated in the case of the the framebuffer console (fbcon), +This is more complicated in the case of the framebuffer console (fbcon), because fbcon is an intermediate layer between the console and the drivers: console ---> fbcon ---> fbdev drivers ---> hardware diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking index 34380d4..d7099a9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ own descendent. Moreover, there is exactly one cross-directory rename Consider the object blocking the cross-directory rename. One of its descendents is locked by cross-directory rename (otherwise we -would again have an infinite set of of contended objects). But that +would again have an infinite set of contended objects). But that means that cross-directory rename is taking locks out of order. Due to (2) the order hadn't changed since we had acquired filesystem lock. But locking rules for cross-directory rename guarantee that we do not diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt index 8c206f4..133e213 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ the fdtable structure - 2. Reading of the fdtable as described above must be protected by rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock(). -3. For any update to the the fd table, files->file_lock must +3. For any update to the fd table, files->file_lock must be held. 4. To look up the file structure given an fd, a reader diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt index 3889a806..982645a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ FILES /wbox - The CPU to SPU communation mailbox. It is write-only can can be written + The CPU to SPU communation mailbox. It is write-only and can be written in units of 32 bits. If the mailbox is full, write() will block and poll can be used to wait for it becoming empty again. The possible operations on an open wbox file are: write(2) If a count smaller than diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt index f9bcf9f..6dd0508 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ size: The limit of allocated bytes for this tmpfs instance. The nr_blocks: The same as size, but in blocks of PAGE_CACHE_SIZE. nr_inodes: The maximum number of inodes for this instance. The default is half of the number of your physical RAM pages, or (on a - a machine with highmem) the number of lowmem RAM pages, + machine with highmem) the number of lowmem RAM pages, whichever is the lower. These parameters accept a suffix k, m or g for kilo, mega and giga and diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt index 2001abb..069cb10 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ iocharset=name -- Character set to use for converting between the you should consider the following option instead. utf8=<bool> -- UTF-8 is the filesystem safe version of Unicode that - is used by the console. It can be be enabled for the + is used by the console. It can be enabled for the filesystem with this option. If 'uni_xlate' gets set, UTF-8 gets disabled. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index cd07c21..7737bfd 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ otherwise noted. put_link: called by the VFS to release resources allocated by follow_link(). The cookie returned by follow_link() is passed - to to this method as the last parameter. It is used by + to this method as the last parameter. It is used by filesystems such as NFS where page cache is not stable (i.e. page that was installed when the symbolic link walk started might not be in the page cache at the end of the diff --git a/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/mmu-layout.txt b/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/mmu-layout.txt index 11dcc56..db10250 100644 --- a/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/mmu-layout.txt +++ b/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/mmu-layout.txt @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ related kernel services: (*) __debug_mmu.iamr[] (*) __debug_mmu.damr[] - These receive the current IAMR and DAMR contents. These can be viewed with with the _amr + These receive the current IAMR and DAMR contents. These can be viewed with the _amr GDB macro: (gdb) _amr diff --git a/Documentation/ia64/efirtc.txt b/Documentation/ia64/efirtc.txt index ede2c1e..057e6be 100644 --- a/Documentation/ia64/efirtc.txt +++ b/Documentation/ia64/efirtc.txt @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ to initialize the system view of the time during boot. Because we wanted to minimize the impact on existing user-level apps using the CMOS clock, we decided to expose an API that was very similar to the one used today with the legacy RTC driver (driver/char/rtc.c). However, because -EFI provides a simpler services, not all all ioctl() are available. Also +EFI provides a simpler services, not all ioctl() are available. Also new ioctl()s have been introduced for things that EFI provides but not the legacy. diff --git a/Documentation/ia64/mca.txt b/Documentation/ia64/mca.txt index a71cc6a..f097c60 100644 --- a/Documentation/ia64/mca.txt +++ b/Documentation/ia64/mca.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ by locks is indeterminate, including linked lists. --- The complicated ia64 MCA process. All of this is mandated by Intel's -specification for ia64 SAL, error recovery and and unwind, it is not as +specification for ia64 SAL, error recovery and unwind, it is not as if we have a choice here. * MCA occurs on one cpu, usually due to a double bit memory error. @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ if we have a choice here. INIT is less complicated than MCA. Pressing the nmi button or using the equivalent command on the management console sends INIT to all -cpus. SAL picks one one of the cpus as the monarch and the rest are +cpus. SAL picks one of the cpus as the monarch and the rest are slaves. All the OS INIT handlers are entered at approximately the same time. The OS monarch prints the state of all tasks and returns, after which the slaves return and the system resumes. diff --git a/Documentation/input/input.txt b/Documentation/input/input.txt index fabb823..ff8cea0 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/input.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/input.txt @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ generated in the kernel straight to the program, with timestamps. The API is still evolving, but should be useable now. It's described in section 5. - This should be the way for GPM and X to get keyboard and mouse mouse + This should be the way for GPM and X to get keyboard and mouse events. It allows for multihead in X without any specific multihead kernel support. The event codes are the same on all architectures and are hardware independent. diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.fax b/Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.fax index 7e57313..9c8c6d9 100644 --- a/Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.fax +++ b/Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.fax @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Structure T30_s description: If the HL-driver receives ISDN_CMD_FAXCMD, all needed information is in this struct set by the LL. To signal information to the LL, the HL-driver has to set the - the parameters and use ISDN_STAT_FAXIND. + parameters and use ISDN_STAT_FAXIND. (Please refer to INTERFACE) Structure T30_s: diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/README.hysdn b/Documentation/isdn/README.hysdn index 56cc59d..eeca11f 100644 --- a/Documentation/isdn/README.hysdn +++ b/Documentation/isdn/README.hysdn @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ $Id: README.hysdn,v 1.3.6.1 2001/02/10 14:41:19 kai Exp $ The hysdn driver has been written by -by Werner Cornelius (werner@isdn4linux.de or werner@titro.de) +Werner Cornelius (werner@isdn4linux.de or werner@titro.de) for Hypercope GmbH Aachen Germany. Hypercope agreed to publish this driver under the GNU General Public License. diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt index 08bafa8..99f2d4d 100644 --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ If die() is called, and it happens to be a thread with pid 0 or 1, or die() is called inside interrupt context or die() is called and panic_on_oops is set, the system will boot into the dump-capture kernel. -On powererpc systems when a soft-reset is generated, die() is called by all cpus and the system system will boot into the dump-capture kernel. +On powererpc systems when a soft-reset is generated, die() is called by all cpus and the system will boot into the dump-capture kernel. For testing purposes, you can trigger a crash by using "ALT-SysRq-c", "echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger or write a module to force the panic. diff --git a/Documentation/keys.txt b/Documentation/keys.txt index 693ef0c..3da586b 100644 --- a/Documentation/keys.txt +++ b/Documentation/keys.txt @@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are: Note that this setting is inherited across fork/exec. - [1] The default default is: the thread keyring if there is one, otherwise + [1] The default is: the thread keyring if there is one, otherwise the process keyring if there is one, otherwise the session keyring if there is one, otherwise the user default session keyring. diff --git a/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt b/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt index d5d3f06..1c41db2 100644 --- a/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ switch to another mode once Linux has started. The first 3 parameters of this sub-option should be obvious: <xres>, <yres> and <depth> give the dimensions of the screen and the number of -planes (depth). The depth is is the logarithm to base 2 of the number +planes (depth). The depth is the logarithm to base 2 of the number of colors possible. (Or, the other way round: The number of colors is 2^depth). diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index a60f3ce..994355b 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ effectively random order, despite the write barrier issued by CPU 1: In the above example, CPU 2 perceives that B is 7, despite the load of *C -(which would be B) coming after the the LOAD of C. +(which would be B) coming after the LOAD of C. If, however, a data dependency barrier were to be placed between the load of C and the load of *C (ie: B) on CPU 2: diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index dc942ea..de809e5 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@ Changing a Bond's Configuration files located in /sys/class/net/<bond name>/bonding The names of these files correspond directly with the command- -line parameters described elsewhere in in this file, and, with the +line parameters described elsewhere in this file, and, with the exception of arp_ip_target, they accept the same values. To see the current setting, simply cat the appropriate file. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt b/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt index f1f9e8a..6489647 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt @@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ ethernet@crystal.cirrus.com) and request that you be registered for automatic software-update notification. Cirrus Logic maintains a web page at http://www.cirrus.com with the -the latest drivers and technical publications. +latest drivers and technical publications. 6.4 Current maintainer diff --git a/Documentation/networking/decnet.txt b/Documentation/networking/decnet.txt index e6c39c5..badb748 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/decnet.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/decnet.txt @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ ethernet address of your ethernet card has to be set according to the DECnet address of the node in order for it to be autoconfigured (and then appear in /proc/net/decnet_dev). There is a utility available at the above FTP sites called dn2ethaddr which can compute the correct ethernet -address to use. The address can be set by ifconfig either before at +address to use. The address can be set by ifconfig either before or at the time the device is brought up. If you are using RedHat you can add the line: diff --git a/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt b/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt index 71fe15a..5c0a5cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ Additional Configurations As an example, if you install the e1000 driver for two PRO/1000 adapters (eth0 and eth1) and set the speed and duplex to 10full and 100half, add - the following to modules.conf or or modprobe.conf: + the following to modules.conf or modprobe.conf: alias eth0 e1000 alias eth1 e1000 diff --git a/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt b/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt index bd528ff..4bde53e 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ However, you may want to set PCI latency timer to 248. #setpci -d 17d5:* LATENCY_TIMER=f8 For detailed description of the PCI registers, please see Xframe User Guide. b. Use 2-buffer mode. This results in large performance boost on -on certain platforms(eg. SGI Altix, IBM xSeries). +certain platforms(eg. SGI Altix, IBM xSeries). c. Ensure Receive Checksum offload is enabled. Use "ethtool -K ethX" command to set/verify this option. d. Enable NAPI feature(in kernel configuration Device Drivers ---> Network diff --git a/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt b/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt index 82ce554..4e1cc74 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt @@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ Solution: In /proc/pci search for the following entry: www.syskonnect.com Some COMPAQ machines have problems dealing with PCI under Linux. - Linux. This problem is described in the 'PCI howto' document + This problem is described in the 'PCI howto' document (included in some distributions or available from the web, e.g. at 'www.linux.org'). diff --git a/Documentation/pci-error-recovery.txt b/Documentation/pci-error-recovery.txt index 634d3e5..6650af4 100644 --- a/Documentation/pci-error-recovery.txt +++ b/Documentation/pci-error-recovery.txt @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ is STEP 6 (Permanent Failure). >>> a value of 0xff on read, and writes will be dropped. If the device >>> driver attempts more than 10K I/O's to a frozen adapter, it will >>> assume that the device driver has gone into an infinite loop, and ->>> it will panic the the kernel. There doesn't seem to be any other +>>> it will panic the kernel. There doesn't seem to be any other >>> way of stopping a device driver that insists on spinning on I/O. STEP 2: MMIO Enabled diff --git a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt index a99c176..9ea2208 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ instead set the PF_NOFREEZE process flag when creating the thread (and be very carefull). -Q: What is the difference between between "platform", "shutdown" and +Q: What is the difference between "platform", "shutdown" and "firmware" in /sys/power/disk? A: diff --git a/Documentation/prio_tree.txt b/Documentation/prio_tree.txt index 2fbb0c4..3aa68f9 100644 --- a/Documentation/prio_tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/prio_tree.txt @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ path which is not desirable. Hence, we do not optimize the height of the heap-and-size indexed overflow-sub-trees using prio_tree->index_bits. Instead the overflow sub-trees are indexed using full BITS_PER_LONG bits of size_index. This may lead to skewed sub-trees because most of the -higher significant bits of the size_index are likely to be be 0 (zero). In +higher significant bits of the size_index are likely to be 0 (zero). In the example above, all 3 overflow-sub-trees are skewed. This may marginally affect the performance. However, processes rarely map many vmas with the same start_vm_pgoff but different end_vm_pgoffs. Therefore, we normally diff --git a/Documentation/rpc-cache.txt b/Documentation/rpc-cache.txt index 21fb09c..8a382be 100644 --- a/Documentation/rpc-cache.txt +++ b/Documentation/rpc-cache.txt @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Creating a Cache structure void cache_put(struct kref *) This is called when the last reference to an item is - is dropped. The pointer passed is to the 'ref' field + dropped. The pointer passed is to the 'ref' field in the cache_head. cache_put should release any references create by 'cache_init' and, if CACHE_VALID is set, any references created by cache_update. diff --git a/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt b/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt index c051ba2..4dd25ee 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt +++ b/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt @@ -1085,8 +1085,7 @@ Notes ----- Addresses & values in the VM debugger are always hex never decimal Address ranges are of the format <HexValue1>-<HexValue2> or <HexValue1>.<HexValue2> -e.g. The address range 0x2000 to 0x3000 can be described described as -2000-3000 or 2000.1000 +e.g. The address range 0x2000 to 0x3000 can be described as 2000-3000 or 2000.1000 The VM Debugger is case insensitive. @@ -1413,7 +1412,7 @@ SMP Specific commands To find out how many cpus you have Q CPUS displays all the CPU's available to your virtual machine To find the cpu that the current cpu VM debugger commands are being directed at do -Q CPU to change the current cpu cpu VM debugger commands are being directed at do +Q CPU to change the current cpu VM debugger commands are being directed at do CPU <desired cpu no> On a SMP guest issue a command to all CPUs try prefixing the command with cpu all. @@ -2184,7 +2183,7 @@ ps -aux | grep gdb kill -SIGSEGV <gdb's pid> or alternatively use killall -SIGSEGV gdb if you have the killall command. Now look at the core dump. -./gdb ./gdb core +./gdb core Displays the following GNU gdb 4.18 Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @@ -2477,7 +2476,7 @@ Lcrash is a perfectly normal program,however, it requires 2 additional files, Kerntypes which is built using a patch to the linux kernel sources in the linux root directory & the System.map. -Kerntypes is an an objectfile whose sole purpose in life +Kerntypes is an objectfile whose sole purpose in life is to provide stabs debug info to lcrash, to do this Kerntypes is built from kerntypes.c which just includes the most commonly referenced header files used when debugging, lcrash can then read the diff --git a/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt b/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt index 389e0e5..000230c 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt +++ b/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Predefined views for hex/ascii, sprintf and raw binary data are provided. It is also possible to define other views. The content of a view can be inspected simply by reading the corresponding debugfs file. -All debug logs have an an actual debug level (range from 0 to 6). +All debug logs have an actual debug level (range from 0 to 6). The default level is 3. Event and Exception functions have a 'level' parameter. Only debug entries with a level that is lower or equal than the actual level are written to the log. This means, when @@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ The input_proc can be used to implement functionality when it is written to the view (e.g. like with 'echo "0" > /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/dasd/level). For header_proc there can be used the default function -debug_dflt_header_fn() which is defined in in debug.h. +debug_dflt_header_fn() which is defined in debug.h. and which produces the same header output as the predefined views. E.g: 00 00964419409:440761 2 - 00 88023ec diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.1992-1997 b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.1992-1997 index dc88ee2..6faad7e 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.1992-1997 +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.1992-1997 @@ -1214,7 +1214,7 @@ Thu Jul 21 10:37:39 1994 Eric Youngdale (eric@esp22) * sr.c(sr_open): Do not allow opens with write access. -Mon Jul 18 09:51:22 1994 1994 Eric Youngdale (eric@esp22) +Mon Jul 18 09:51:22 1994 Eric Youngdale (eric@esp22) * Linux 1.1.31 released. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/st.txt b/Documentation/scsi/st.txt index 66ba3ad..5ff65b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/st.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/st.txt @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ BOOT TIME CONFIGURATION If the driver is compiled into the kernel, the same parameters can be also set using, e.g., the LILO command line. The preferred syntax is -is to use the same keyword used when loading as module but prepended +to use the same keyword used when loading as module but prepended with 'st.'. For instance, to set the maximum number of scatter/gather segments, the parameter 'st.max_sg_segs=xx' should be used (xx is the number of scatter/gather segments). diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl b/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl index 4807ef7..077fbe2 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl @@ -5486,7 +5486,7 @@ struct _snd_pcm_runtime { <chapter id="power-management"> <title>Power Management</title> <para> - If the chip is supposed to work with with suspend/resume + If the chip is supposed to work with suspend/resume functions, you need to add the power-management codes to the driver. The additional codes for the power-management should be <function>ifdef</function>'ed with diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/AWE32 b/Documentation/sound/oss/AWE32 index cb179bf..b5908a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/oss/AWE32 +++ b/Documentation/sound/oss/AWE32 @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ SB32. install awe_wave /sbin/modprobe --first-time -i awe_wave && /usr/local/bin/sfxload PATH_TO_SOUND_BANK_FILE You will of course have to change "PATH_TO_SOUND_BANK_FILE" to the full - path of of the sound bank file. That will enable the Sound Blaster and AWE + path of the sound bank file. That will enable the Sound Blaster and AWE wave synthesis. To play midi files you should get one of these programs if you don't already have them: diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/solo1 b/Documentation/sound/oss/solo1 index 6f53d40..95c4c834 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/oss/solo1 +++ b/Documentation/sound/oss/solo1 @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ is at least one report of it working on later silicon. The chip behaves differently than described in the data sheet, likely due to a chip bug. Working around this would require the help of ESS (for example by publishing an errata sheet), -but ESS has not done so so far. +but ESS has not done so far. Also, the chip only supports 24 bit addresses for recording, which means it cannot work on some Alpha mainboards. diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/ultrasound b/Documentation/sound/oss/ultrasound index 32cd504..eed331c 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/oss/ultrasound +++ b/Documentation/sound/oss/ultrasound @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ db16 ??? no_wave_dma option This option defaults to a value of 0, which allows the Ultrasound wavetable -DSP to use DMA for for playback and downloading samples. This is the same +DSP to use DMA for playback and downloading samples. This is the same as the old behaviour. If set to 1, no DMA is needed for downloading samples, and allows owners of a GUS MAX to make use of simultaneous digital audio (/dev/dsp), MIDI, and wavetable playback. diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/vwsnd b/Documentation/sound/oss/vwsnd index a6ea0a1..4c6cbdb 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/oss/vwsnd +++ b/Documentation/sound/oss/vwsnd @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ boxes. The Visual Workstation has an Analog Devices AD1843 "SoundComm" audio codec chip. The AD1843 is accessed through the Cobalt I/O ASIC, also -known as Lithium. This driver programs both both chips. +known as Lithium. This driver programs both chips. ============================================================================== QUICK CONFIGURATION diff --git a/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx b/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx index 9c45f3d..a1e0ee2 100644 --- a/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx +++ b/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx @@ -124,12 +124,12 @@ use a value of 8. The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.timeout_microsecs" fields is used to efficiently handle trailing bytes in the SSP receiver fifo. The correct value for this field is dependent on the SPI bus speed ("spi_board_info.max_speed_hz") and the specific -slave device. Please note the the PXA2xx SSP 1 does not support trailing byte +slave device. Please note that the PXA2xx SSP 1 does not support trailing byte timeouts and must busy-wait any trailing bytes. The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.enable_loopback" field is used to place the SSP porting into internal loopback mode. In this mode the SSP controller internally -connects the SSPTX pin the the SSPRX pin. This is useful for initial setup +connects the SSPTX pin to the SSPRX pin. This is useful for initial setup testing. The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.cs_control" field is used to point to a board specific @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ DMA and PIO I/O Support ----------------------- The pxa2xx_spi driver support both DMA and interrupt driven PIO message transfers. The driver defaults to PIO mode and DMA transfers must enabled by -setting the "enable_dma" flag in the "pxa2xx_spi_master" structure and and +setting the "enable_dma" flag in the "pxa2xx_spi_master" structure and ensuring that the "pxa2xx_spi_chip.dma_burst_size" field is non-zero. The DMA mode support both coherent and stream based DMA mappings. diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary index 068732d3..7279579 100644 --- a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary +++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ NON-STATIC CONFIGURATIONS Developer boards often play by different rules than product boards, and one example is the potential need to hotplug SPI devices and/or controllers. -For those cases you might need to use use spi_busnum_to_master() to look +For those cases you might need to use spi_busnum_to_master() to look up the spi bus master, and will likely need spi_new_device() to provide the board info based on the board that was hotplugged. Of course, you'd later call at least spi_unregister_device() when that board is removed. @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ As soon as it enters probe(), the driver may issue I/O requests to the SPI device using "struct spi_message". When remove() returns, the driver guarantees that it won't submit any more such messages. - - An spi_message is a sequence of of protocol operations, executed + - An spi_message is a sequence of protocol operations, executed as one atomic sequence. SPI driver controls include: + when bidirectional reads and writes start ... by how its diff --git a/Documentation/unshare.txt b/Documentation/unshare.txt index 90a5e9e..a864351 100644 --- a/Documentation/unshare.txt +++ b/Documentation/unshare.txt @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ items: a pointer to it. 7.4) Appropriately modify architecture specific code to register the - the new system call. + new system call. 8) Test Specification --------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt b/Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt index 6711441..9cf83e8 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ one or more packets could finish before an error stops further endpoint I/O. hardware problems such as bad devices (including firmware) or cables. (**) This is also one of several codes that different kinds of host -controller use to to indicate a transfer has failed because of device +controller use to indicate a transfer has failed because of device disconnect. In the interval before the hub driver starts disconnect processing, devices may receive such fault reports for every request. diff --git a/Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt b/Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt index cd6fb4b..6a79075 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ index, the ioctl returns -1 and sets errno to -EINVAL. HIDIOCGDEVINFO - struct hiddev_devinfo (read) Gets a hiddev_devinfo structure which describes the device. -HIDIOCGSTRING - struct struct hiddev_string_descriptor (read/write) +HIDIOCGSTRING - struct hiddev_string_descriptor (read/write) Gets a string descriptor from the device. The caller must fill in the "index" field to indicate which descriptor should be returned. diff --git a/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt b/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt index 2899628..8dc2bac 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ Cypress M8 CY4601 Family Serial Driver -Cypress HID->COM RS232 adapter Note: Cypress Semiconductor claims no affiliation with the - the hid->com device. + hid->com device. Most devices using chipsets under the CY4601 family should work with the driver. As long as they stay true to the CY4601 @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ Options supported: debug - extra verbose debugging info (default: 0; nonzero enables) use_lowlatency - use low_latency flag to speed up tty layer - when reading from from the device. + when reading from the device. (default: 0; nonzero enables) See http://www.uuhaus.de/linux/palmconnect.html for up-to-date diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/README.pvrusb2 b/Documentation/video4linux/README.pvrusb2 index c73a32c..a4b7ae8 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/README.pvrusb2 +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/README.pvrusb2 @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Source file list / functional overview: pvrusb2-i2c-core.[ch] - This module provides an implementation of a kernel-friendly I2C adaptor driver, through which other external I2C client drivers (e.g. msp3400, tuner, lirc) may connect and - operate corresponding chips within the the pvrusb2 device. It is + operate corresponding chips within the pvrusb2 device. It is through here that other V4L modules can reach into this driver to operate specific pieces (and those modules are in turn driven by glue logic which is coordinated by pvrusb2-hdw, doled out by diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran b/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran index 040a2c8..deb218f 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ tv broadcast formats all aver the world. The CCIR defines parameters needed for broadcasting the signal. The CCIR has defined different standards: A,B,D,E,F,G,D,H,I,K,K1,L,M,N,... -The CCIR says not much about about the colorsystem used !!! +The CCIR says not much about the colorsystem used !!! And talking about a colorsystem says not to much about how it is broadcast. The CCIR standards A,E,F are not used any more. diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa b/Documentation/vm/numa index 4b8db1b..e93ad94 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/numa +++ b/Documentation/vm/numa @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The initial port includes NUMAizing the bootmem allocator code by encapsulating all the pieces of information into a bootmem_data_t structure. Node specific calls have been added to the allocator. In theory, any platform which uses the bootmem allocator should -be able to to put the bootmem and mem_map data structures anywhere +be able to put the bootmem and mem_map data structures anywhere it deems best. Each node's page allocation data structures have also been encapsulated |
