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authorDaniel Mack2010-02-03 08:01:28 +0800
committerJiri Kosina2010-02-09 11:13:56 +0100
commit3ad2f3fbb961429d2aa627465ae4829758bc7e07 (patch)
treef365c513e8f5b477a61336a600ff54f32b7ad6e1 /Documentation
parent1537a3638cbf741d3826c1002026cce487a6bee0 (diff)
tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes
In particular, several occurances of funny versions of 'success', 'unknown', 'therefore', 'acknowledge', 'argument', 'achieve', 'address', 'beginning', 'desirable', 'separate' and 'necessary' are fixed. Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/v4l/common.xml2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-parm.xml2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/CPUfreq.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/abituguru2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/input/rotary-encoder.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/skfp.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/s390/kvm.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt2
10 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl
index 5e7d84b48505..133cd6c3f3c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ static void board_select_chip (struct mtd_info *mtd, int chip)
The ECC bytes must be placed immidiately after the data
bytes in order to make the syndrome generator work. This
is contrary to the usual layout used by software ECC. The
- seperation of data and out of band area is not longer
+ separation of data and out of band area is not longer
possible. The nand driver code handles this layout and
the remaining free bytes in the oob area are managed by
the autoplacement code. Provide a matching oob-layout
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ static void board_select_chip (struct mtd_info *mtd, int chip)
bad blocks. They have factory marked good blocks. The marker pattern
is erased when the block is erased to be reused. So in case of
powerloss before writing the pattern back to the chip this block
- would be lost and added to the bad blocks. Therefor we scan the
+ would be lost and added to the bad blocks. Therefore we scan the
chip(s) when we detect them the first time for good blocks and
store this information in a bad block table before erasing any
of the blocks.
@@ -1094,7 +1094,7 @@ in this page</entry>
manufacturers specifications. This applies similar to the spare area.
</para>
<para>
- Therefor NAND aware filesystems must either write in page size chunks
+ Therefore NAND aware filesystems must either write in page size chunks
or hold a writebuffer to collect smaller writes until they sum up to
pagesize. Available NAND aware filesystems: JFFS2, YAFFS.
</para>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/common.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/common.xml
index c65f0ac9b6ee..cea23e1c4fc6 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/common.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/common.xml
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ frames per second. If less than this number of frames is to be
captured or output, applications can request frame skipping or
duplicating on the driver side. This is especially useful when using
the &func-read; or &func-write;, which are not augmented by timestamps
-or sequence counters, and to avoid unneccessary data copying.</para>
+or sequence counters, and to avoid unnecessary data copying.</para>
<para>Finally these ioctls can be used to determine the number of
buffers used internally by a driver in read/write mode. For
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-parm.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-parm.xml
index 78332d365ce9..392aa9e5571e 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-parm.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-parm.xml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ captured or output, applications can request frame skipping or
duplicating on the driver side. This is especially useful when using
the <function>read()</function> or <function>write()</function>, which
are not augmented by timestamps or sequence counters, and to avoid
-unneccessary data copying.</para>
+unnecessary data copying.</para>
<para>Further these ioctls can be used to determine the number of
buffers used internally by a driver in read/write mode. For
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/CPUfreq.txt b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/CPUfreq.txt
index 76b3a11e90be..fa968aa99d67 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/CPUfreq.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/CPUfreq.txt
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ Introduction
how the clocks are arranged. The first implementation used as single
PLL to feed the ARM, memory and peripherals via a series of dividers
and muxes and this is the implementation that is documented here. A
- newer version where there is a seperate PLL and clock divider for the
- ARM core is available as a seperate driver.
+ newer version where there is a separate PLL and clock divider for the
+ ARM core is available as a separate driver.
Layout
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru b/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru
index 87ffa0f5ec70..5eb3b9d5f0d5 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Supported chips:
bank1_types=1,1,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,1
You may also need to specify the fan_sensors option for these boards
fan_sensors=5
- 2) There is a seperate abituguru3 driver for these motherboards,
+ 2) There is a separate abituguru3 driver for these motherboards,
the abituguru (without the 3 !) driver will not work on these
motherboards (and visa versa)!
diff --git a/Documentation/input/rotary-encoder.txt b/Documentation/input/rotary-encoder.txt
index 3a6aec40c0b0..8b4129de1d2d 100644
--- a/Documentation/input/rotary-encoder.txt
+++ b/Documentation/input/rotary-encoder.txt
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ and the number of steps or will clamp at the maximum and zero depending on
the configuration.
Because GPIO to IRQ mapping is platform specific, this information must
-be given in seperately to the driver. See the example below.
+be given in separately to the driver. See the example below.
---------<snip>---------
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/skfp.txt b/Documentation/networking/skfp.txt
index abfddf81e34a..203ec66c9fb4 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/skfp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/skfp.txt
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Compaq adapters (not tested):
=======================
From v2.01 on, the driver is integrated in the linux kernel sources.
-Therefor, the installation is the same as for any other adapter
+Therefore, the installation is the same as for any other adapter
supported by the kernel.
Refer to the manual of your distribution about the installation
of network adapters.
diff --git a/Documentation/s390/kvm.txt b/Documentation/s390/kvm.txt
index 6f5ceb0f09fc..85f3280d7ef6 100644
--- a/Documentation/s390/kvm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/s390/kvm.txt
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ args: unsigned long
see also: include/linux/kvm.h
This ioctl stores the state of the cpu at the guest real address given as
argument, unless one of the following values defined in include/linux/kvm.h
-is given as arguement:
+is given as argument:
KVM_S390_STORE_STATUS_NOADDR - the CPU stores its status to the save area in
absolute lowcore as defined by the principles of operation
KVM_S390_STORE_STATUS_PREFIXED - the CPU stores its status to the save area in
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc
index ff19a52fe004..2ffc1148eb95 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc
@@ -989,8 +989,8 @@ Changes from 20040709 to 20040716
* Remove redundant port_cmp != 2 check in if
(!port_cmp) { .... if (port_cmp != 2).... }
* Clock changes: removed struct clk_data and timerList.
- * Clock changes: seperate nodev_tmo and els_retry_delay into 2
- seperate timers and convert to 1 argument changed
+ * Clock changes: separate nodev_tmo and els_retry_delay into 2
+ separate timers and convert to 1 argument changed
LPFC_NODE_FARP_PEND_t to struct lpfc_node_farp_pend convert
ipfarp_tmo to 1 argument convert target struct tmofunc and
rtplunfunc to 1 argument * cr_count, cr_delay and
@@ -1514,7 +1514,7 @@ Changes from 20040402 to 20040409
* Remove unused elxclock declaration in elx_sli.h.
* Since everywhere IOCB_ENTRY is used, the return value is cast,
move the cast into the macro.
- * Split ioctls out into seperate files
+ * Split ioctls out into separate files
Changes from 20040326 to 20040402
@@ -1534,7 +1534,7 @@ Changes from 20040326 to 20040402
* Unused variable cleanup
* Use Linux list macros for DMABUF_t
* Break up ioctls into 3 sections, dfc, util, hbaapi
- rearranged code so this could be easily seperated into a
+ rearranged code so this could be easily separated into a
differnet module later All 3 are currently turned on by
defines in lpfc_ioctl.c LPFC_DFC_IOCTL, LPFC_UTIL_IOCTL,
LPFC_HBAAPI_IOCTL
@@ -1551,7 +1551,7 @@ Changes from 20040326 to 20040402
started by lpfc_online(). lpfc_offline() only stopped
els_timeout routine. It now stops all timeout routines
associated with that hba.
- * Replace seperate next and prev pointers in struct
+ * Replace separate next and prev pointers in struct
lpfc_bindlist with list_head type. In elxHBA_t, replace
fc_nlpbind_start and _end with fc_nlpbind_list and use
list_head macros to access it.
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
index bab3040da548..03485bfbd797 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
@@ -1588,7 +1588,7 @@ module author does not need to worry about it.
When tracing is enabled, kstop_machine is called to prevent
races with the CPUS executing code being modified (which can
-cause the CPU to do undesireable things), and the nops are
+cause the CPU to do undesirable things), and the nops are
patched back to calls. But this time, they do not call mcount
(which is just a function stub). They now call into the ftrace
infrastructure.