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diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/EB2410ITX.txt b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/EB2410ITX.txt index 000e3d7a78b2..26422f0f9080 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/EB2410ITX.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/EB2410ITX.txt @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ MTD --- The NAND and NOR support has been merged from the linux-mtd project. - Any prolbems, see http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/ for more + Any problems, see http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/ for more information or up-to-date versions of linux-mtd. diff --git a/Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt b/Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt index 6f47332c883d..e2a66f8143c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt @@ -99,8 +99,8 @@ contrast, many write requests may be dispatched to the disk controller at a time during a write batch. It is this characteristic that can make the anticipatory scheduler perform anomalously with controllers supporting TCQ, or with hardware striped RAID devices. Setting the antic_expire -queue paramter (see below) to zero disables this behavior, and the anticipatory -scheduler behaves essentially like the deadline scheduler. +queue parameter (see below) to zero disables this behavior, and the +anticipatory scheduler behaves essentially like the deadline scheduler. When read anticipation is enabled (antic_expire is not zero), reads are dispatched to the disk controller one at a time. diff --git a/Documentation/block/barrier.txt b/Documentation/block/barrier.txt index de3d88edb7f1..a272c3db8094 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/barrier.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/barrier.txt @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ iii. Devices which have queue depth of 1. This is a degenerate case of ii. Just keeping issue order suffices. Ancient SCSI controllers/drives and IDE drives are in this category. -2. Forced flushing to physcial medium +2. Forced flushing to physical medium Again, if you're not gonna do synchronization with disk drives (dang, it sounds even more appealing now!), the reason you use I/O barriers diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt index e6d7010d30a4..6a9c55bd556b 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt @@ -137,11 +137,11 @@ have to be made in a row before the CPU frequency is actually lower. If set to '1' then the frequency decreases as quickly as it increases, if set to '2' it decreases at half the rate of the increase. -ignore_nice_load: this parameter takes a value of '0' or '1', when set -to '0' (its default) then all processes are counted towards towards the -'cpu utilisation' value. When set to '1' then processes that are +ignore_nice_load: this parameter takes a value of '0' or '1'. When +set to '0' (its default), all processes are counted towards the +'cpu utilisation' value. When set to '1', the processes that are run with a 'nice' value will not count (and thus be ignored) in the -overal usage calculation. This is useful if you are running a CPU +overall usage calculation. This is useful if you are running a CPU intensive calculation on your laptop that you do not care how long it takes to complete as you can 'nice' it and prevent it from taking part in the deciding process of whether to increase your CPU frequency. diff --git a/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt b/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt index b95ee6f94703..2c0d631de0cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt +++ b/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ echo packet > /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/image_type In packet update mode the packet size has to be given before any packets can be downloaded. It is done as below echo XXXX > /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size -In the packet update mechanism, the user neesd to create a new file having +In the packet update mechanism, the user needs to create a new file having packets of data arranged back to back. It can be done as follows The user creates packets header, gets the chunk of the BIOS image and places it next to the packetheader; now, the packetheader + BIOS image chunk @@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ read back the image downloaded. NOTE: This driver requires a patch for firmware_class.c which has the modified request_firmware_nowait function. -Also after updating the BIOS image an user mdoe application neeeds to execute -code which message the BIOS update request to the BIOS. So on the next reboot -the BIOS knows about the new image downloaded and it updates it self. -Also don't unload the rbu drive if the image has to be updated. +Also after updating the BIOS image a user mode application needs to execute +code which sends the BIOS update request to the BIOS. So on the next reboot +the BIOS knows about the new image downloaded and it updates itself. +Also don't unload the rbu driver if the image has to be updated. diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt index 682e1e7018f3..28c4f79662c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/devices.txt @@ -2005,7 +2005,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated. 116 char Advanced Linux Sound Driver (ALSA) 116 block MicroMemory battery backed RAM adapter (NVRAM) - Supports 16 boards, 15 paritions each. + Supports 16 boards, 15 partitions each. Requested by neilb at cse.unsw.edu.au. 0 = /dev/umem/d0 Whole of first board @@ -3094,7 +3094,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated. This major is reserved to assist the expansion to a larger number space. No device nodes with this major should ever be created on the filesystem. - (This is probaly not true anymore, but I'll leave it + (This is probably not true anymore, but I'll leave it for now /Torben) ---LARGE MAJORS!!!!!--- diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/avermedia.txt b/Documentation/dvb/avermedia.txt index 8bab8461a4af..e44c009ac6c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/avermedia.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/avermedia.txt @@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ Assumptions and Introduction by circuitry on the card and is often presented uncompressed. For a PAL TV signal encoded at a resolution of 768x576 24-bit color pixels over 25 frames per second - a fair amount of data - is generated and must be proceesed by the PC before it can be + is generated and must be processed by the PC before it can be displayed on the video monitor screen. Some Analogue TV cards - for PC's have onboard MPEG2 encoders which permit the raw + for PCs have onboard MPEG2 encoders which permit the raw digital data stream to be presented to the PC in an encoded and compressed form - similar to the form that is used in Digital TV. diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/faq.txt b/Documentation/dvb/faq.txt index 25fae0b4ce07..dbcedf5833ee 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/faq.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/faq.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Some very frequently asked questions about linuxtv-dvb It's not a bug, it's a feature. Because the frontends have significant power requirements (and hence get very hot), they are powered down if they are unused (i.e. if the frontend device - is closed). The dvb-core.o module paramter "dvb_shutdown_timeout" + is closed). The dvb-core.o module parameter "dvb_shutdown_timeout" allow you to change the timeout (default 5 seconds). Setting the timeout to 0 disables the timeout feature. diff --git a/Documentation/eisa.txt b/Documentation/eisa.txt index e00fd0c5707f..6a099edadd62 100644 --- a/Documentation/eisa.txt +++ b/Documentation/eisa.txt @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ struct eisa_driver { id_table : an array of NULL terminated EISA id strings, followed by an empty string. Each string can - optionnaly be paired with a driver-dependant value + optionally be paired with a driver-dependant value (driver_data). driver : a generic driver, such as described in diff --git a/Documentation/fb/sstfb.txt b/Documentation/fb/sstfb.txt index 4b6c38089b8e..ccdcfec3c346 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/sstfb.txt +++ b/Documentation/fb/sstfb.txt @@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ Module Usage Kernel/Modules Options - You can pass some otions to sstfb module, and via the kernel command - line when the driver is compiled in : + You can pass some options to the sstfb module, and via the kernel + command line when the driver is compiled in: for module : insmod sstfb.o option1=value1 option2=value2 ... in kernel : video=sstfb:option1,option2:value2,option3 ... diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/befs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/befs.txt index 8b7d732bfb68..e7aa177e5422 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/befs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/befs.txt @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ He has been working on the code since Aug 13, 2001. See the changelog for details. Original Author: Makoto Kato <m_kato@ga2.so-net.ne.jp> -His orriginal code can still be found at: +His original code can still be found at: <http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA008030/bfs/> Does anyone know of a more current email address for Makoto? He doesn't respond to the address given above... @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Which is it, BFS or BEFS? ================ Be, Inc said, "BeOS Filesystem is officially called BFS, not BeFS". But Unixware Boot Filesystem is called bfs, too. And they are already in -the kernel. Because of this nameing conflict, on Linux the BeOS +the kernel. Because of this naming conflict, on Linux the BeOS filesystem is called befs. HOW TO INSTALL diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt index 3dd2872416a1..4333e836c495 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ Reserved Space In ext2, there is a mechanism for reserving a certain number of blocks for a particular user (normally the super-user). This is intended to -allow for the system to continue functioning even if non-priveleged users +allow for the system to continue functioning even if non-privileged users fill up all the space available to them (this is independent of filesystem quotas). It also keeps the filesystem from filling up entirely which helps combat fragmentation. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt index 302df12b762f..3889a8066247 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ ERRORS EFAULT npc is not a valid pointer or status is neither NULL nor a valid pointer. - EINTR A signal occured while spu_run was in progress. The npc value + EINTR A signal occurred while spu_run was in progress. The npc value has been updated to the new program counter value if necessary. EINVAL fd is not a file descriptor returned from spu_create(2). diff --git a/Documentation/hrtimers.txt b/Documentation/hrtimers.txt index acad3a9b16c9..1fbad1a7b809 100644 --- a/Documentation/hrtimers.txt +++ b/Documentation/hrtimers.txt @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ several reasons why such integration is hard/impossible: high-res timers. - the unpredictable [O(N)] overhead of cascading leads to delays which - necessiate a more complex handling of high resolution timers, which + necessitate a more complex handling of high resolution timers, which in turn decreases robustness. Such a design still led to rather large timing inaccuracies. Cascading is a fundamental property of the timer wheel concept, it cannot be 'designed out' without unevitably diff --git a/Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt b/Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt index d537c48cc6d0..22f039d9da62 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt @@ -465,8 +465,8 @@ more parallel ports. There are two options specific to PSX driver portion. gamecon.psx_delay sets the command delay when talking to the controllers. The default of 25 should -work but you can try lowering it for better performace. If your pads don't -respond try raising it untill they work. Setting the type to 8 allows the +work but you can try lowering it for better performance. If your pads don't +respond try raising it until they work. Setting the type to 8 allows the driver to be used with Dance Dance Revolution or similar games. Arrow keys are registered as key presses instead of X and Y axes. diff --git a/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt b/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt index 2a76a4af598c..dab123db5a4f 100644 --- a/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt +++ b/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ Proof of 100% correctness: The validator achieves perfect, mathematical 'closure' (proof of locking correctness) in the sense that for every simple, standalone single-task -locking sequence that occured at least once during the lifetime of the +locking sequence that occurred at least once during the lifetime of the kernel, the validator proves it with a 100% certainty that no combination and timing of these locking sequences can cause any class of lock related deadlock. [*] diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt index 154b4ff9bb35..38589c9465f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/md.txt +++ b/Documentation/md.txt @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ Each directory contains: This gives the role that the device has in the array. It will either be 'none' if the device is not active in the array (i.e. is a spare or has failed) or an integer less than the - 'raid_disks' number for the array indicating which possition + 'raid_disks' number for the array indicating which position it currently fills. This can only be set while assembling an array. A device for which this is set is assumed to be working. @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ in the array. These are named rdNN -where 'NN' is the possition in the array, starting from 0. +where 'NN' is the position in the array, starting from 0. So for a 3 drive array there will be rd0, rd1, rd2. These are symbolic links to the appropriate 'dev-XXX' entry. Thus, for example, diff --git a/Documentation/networking/gen_stats.txt b/Documentation/networking/gen_stats.txt index ae54c828f4d6..70e6275b757a 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/gen_stats.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/gen_stats.txt @@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ Rate Estimator: 0) Prepare an estimator attribute. Most likely this would be in user space. The value of this TLV should contain a tc_estimator structure. - As usual, such a TLV nees to be 32 bit aligned and therefore the - length needs to be appropriately set etc. The estimator interval + As usual, such a TLV needs to be 32 bit aligned and therefore the + length needs to be appropriately set, etc. The estimator interval and ewma log need to be converted to the appropriate values. tc_estimator.c::tc_setup_estimator() is advisable to be used as the conversion routine. It does a few clever things. It takes a time diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt index a87d4a8b3954..12a008a5c221 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ an i386 kernel's memory size is limited to 1GiB. All memory allocations are not freed until the socket is closed. The memory allocations are done with GFP_KERNEL priority, this basically means that the allocation can wait and swap other process' memory in order to allocate -the nececessary memory, so normally limits can be reached. +the necessary memory, so normally limits can be reached. Other constraints ------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt b/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt index b8bc7dd3d282..817fc113d93b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ To set the driver parameters in this file, proceed as follows: 1. Insert a line of the form : options sk98lin ... For "...", the same syntax is required as described for the command - line paramaters of modprobe below. + line parameters of modprobe below. 2. To activate the new parameters, either reboot your computer or unload and reload the driver. @@ -364,9 +364,9 @@ Parameter: IntsPerSec Values: 30...40000 (interrupts per second) Default: 2000 -This parameter is only used, if either static or dynamic interrupt moderation -is used on a network adapter card. Using this paramter if no moderation is -applied, will lead to no action performed. +This parameter is only used if either static or dynamic interrupt moderation +is used on a network adapter card. Using this parameter if no moderation is +applied will lead to no action performed. This parameter determines the length of any interrupt moderation interval. Assuming that static interrupt moderation is to be used, an 'IntsPerSec' diff --git a/Documentation/networking/vortex.txt b/Documentation/networking/vortex.txt index 6091e5f6794f..6356d3faed36 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/vortex.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/vortex.txt @@ -359,13 +359,13 @@ steps you should take: Eliminate some variables: try different cards, different computers, different cables, different ports on the switch/hub, - different versions of the kernel or ofthe driver, etc. + different versions of the kernel or of the driver, etc. - OK, it's a driver problem. You need to generate a report. Typically this is an email to the maintainer and/or linux-net@vger.kernel.org. The maintainer's - email address will be inthe driver source or in the MAINTAINERS file. + email address will be in the driver source or in the MAINTAINERS file. - The contents of your report will vary a lot depending upon the problem. If it's a kernel crash then you should refer to the diff --git a/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt b/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt index 37e42fed7485..0cf654147634 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ PRODUCT COMPONENTS AND RELATED FILES /usr/local/wanrouter/patches/kdrivers: Sources of the latest WANPIPE device drivers. These are used to UPGRADE the linux kernel to the newest - version if the kernel source has already been pathced with + version if the kernel source has already been patched with WANPIPE drivers. /usr/local/wanrouter/samples: @@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ beta1-2.1.5 Nov 15 2000 2.2.X kernels only o Secured the driver UDP debugging calls - - All illegal netowrk debugging calls are reported to + - All illegal network debugging calls are reported to the log. - Defined a set of allowed commands, all other denied. @@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ beta1-2.1.5 Nov 15 2000 o Keyboard Led Monitor/Debugger - A new utilty /usr/sbin/wpkbdmon uses keyboard leds - to convey operatinal statistic information of the + to convey operational statistic information of the Sangoma WANPIPE cards. NUM_LOCK = Line State (On=connected, Off=disconnected) CAPS_LOCK = Tx data (On=transmitting, Off=no tx data) @@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ beta1-2.1.5 Nov 15 2000 o Fixed the Frame Relay and Chdlc network interfaces so they are compatible with libpcap libraries. Meaning, tcpdump, snort, ethereal, and all other packet sniffers and debuggers work on - all WANPIPE netowrk interfaces. + all WANPIPE network interfaces. - Set the network interface encoding type to ARPHRD_PPP. This tell the sniffers that data obtained from the network interface is in pure IP format. diff --git a/Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt index 94058220aaf0..64755e9285db 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ unfreeze user space processes frozen by SNAPSHOT_UNFREEZE if they are still frozen when the device is being closed). Currently it is assumed that the userland utilities reading/writing the -snapshot image from/to the kernel will use a swap parition, called the resume +snapshot image from/to the kernel will use a swap partition, called the resume partition, as storage space. However, this is not really required, as they can use, for example, a special (blank) suspend partition or a file on a partition that is unmounted before SNAPSHOT_ATOMIC_SNAPSHOT and mounted afterwards. diff --git a/Documentation/power/video.txt b/Documentation/power/video.txt index d859faa3a463..2b358498d095 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/video.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/video.txt @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ problem for S1 standby, because hardware should retain its state over that. We either have to run video BIOS during early resume, or interpret it -using vbetool later, or maybe nothing is neccessary on particular +using vbetool later, or maybe nothing is necessary on particular system because video state is preserved. Unfortunately different methods work on different systems, and no known method suits all of them. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt index 09a5d43a683c..ee272035f781 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt @@ -630,12 +630,11 @@ like address space bits, you'll have to add a bus translator to the prom_parse.c file of the recent kernels for your bus type. The "reg" property only defines addresses and sizes (if #size-cells -is -non-0) within a given bus. In order to translate addresses upward +is non-0) within a given bus. In order to translate addresses upward (that is into parent bus addresses, and possibly into cpu physical addresses), all busses must contain a "ranges" property. If the "ranges" property is missing at a given level, it's assumed that -translation isn't possible. The format of the "ranges" proprety for a +translation isn't possible. The format of the "ranges" property for a bus is a list of: bus address, parent bus address, size diff --git a/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt b/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt index e506e8d333ed..2d826d84943f 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt +++ b/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt @@ -366,8 +366,8 @@ Register Usage & Stackframes on Linux for s/390 & z/Architecture Overview: --------- This is the code that gcc produces at the top & the bottom of -each function, it usually is fairly consistent & similar from -function to function & if you know its layout you can probalby +each function. It usually is fairly consistent & similar from +function to function & if you know its layout you can probably make some headway in finding the ultimate cause of a problem after a crash without a source level debugger. @@ -1703,7 +1703,7 @@ concentrate on data processing. IOP's can use one or more links ( known as channel paths ) to talk to each IO device. It first checks for path availability & chooses an available one, then starts ( & sometimes terminates IO ). -There are two types of channel path ESCON & the Paralell IO interface. +There are two types of channel path: ESCON & the Parallel IO interface. IO devices are attached to control units, control units provide the logic to interface the channel paths & channel path IO protocols to @@ -1742,11 +1742,11 @@ controllers or a control unit which connects to 1000 3270 terminals ). The 390 IO systems come in 2 flavours the current 390 machines support both -The Older 360 & 370 Interface,sometimes called the paralell I/O interface, +The Older 360 & 370 Interface,sometimes called the Parallel I/O interface, sometimes called Bus-and Tag & sometimes Original Equipment Manufacturers Interface (OEMI). -This byte wide paralell channel path/bus has parity & data on the "Bus" cable +This byte wide Parallel channel path/bus has parity & data on the "Bus" cable & control lines on the "Tag" cable. These can operate in byte multiplex mode for sharing between several slow devices or burst mode & monopolize the channel for the whole burst. Upto 256 devices can be addressed on one of these cables. These cables are @@ -1776,7 +1776,7 @@ Consoles 3270 & 3215 ( a teletype emulated under linux for a line mode console ) DASD's direct access storage devices ( otherwise known as hard disks ). Tape Drives. CTC ( Channel to Channel Adapters ), -ESCON or Paralell Cables used as a very high speed serial link +ESCON or Parallel Cables used as a very high speed serial link between 2 machines. We use 2 cables under linux to do a bi-directional serial link. @@ -1802,8 +1802,8 @@ OSA 7C09 ON OSA 7C09 SUBCHANNEL = 0001 OSA 7C14 ON OSA 7C14 SUBCHANNEL = 0002 OSA 7C15 ON OSA 7C15 SUBCHANNEL = 0003 -If you have a guest with certain priviliges you may be able to see devices -which don't belong to you to avoid this do add the option V. +If you have a guest with certain privileges you may be able to see devices +which don't belong to you. To avoid this, add the option V. e.g. Q V OSA diff --git a/Documentation/s390/cds.txt b/Documentation/s390/cds.txt index 59a5616ae33a..b2acf4b6434f 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/cds.txt +++ b/Documentation/s390/cds.txt @@ -177,11 +177,11 @@ This routine returns the characteristics for the device specified. The function is meant to be called with an irq handler in place; that is, at earliest during set_online() processing. -While the request is procesed synchronously, the device interrupt +While the request is processed synchronously, the device interrupt handler is called for final ending status. In case of error situations the interrupt handler may recover appropriately. The device irq handler can recognize the corresponding interrupts by the interruption parameter be -0x00524443.The ccw_device must not be locked prior to calling read_dev_chars(). +0x00524443. The ccw_device must not be locked prior to calling read_dev_chars(). The function may be called enabled or disabled. diff --git a/Documentation/s390/crypto/crypto-API.txt b/Documentation/s390/crypto/crypto-API.txt index 78a77624a716..29dee792c887 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/crypto/crypto-API.txt +++ b/Documentation/s390/crypto/crypto-API.txt @@ -61,9 +61,9 @@ Example: z990 crypto instruction for SHA1 algorithm is available -> when the sha1 algorithm is requested through the crypto API (which has a module autoloader) the z990 module will be loaded. -TBD: a userspace module probin mechanism +TBD: a userspace module probing mechanism something like 'probe sha1 sha1_z990 sha1' in modprobe.conf - -> try module sha1_z990, if it fails to load load standard module sha1 + -> try module sha1_z990, if it fails to load standard module sha1 the 'probe' statement is currently not supported in modprobe.conf diff --git a/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt b/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt index 2095a2704b8f..389e0e56e38d 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt +++ b/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt @@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ Example: It is also possible to deactivate the debug feature globally for every debug log. You can change the behavior using 2 sysctl parameters in /proc/sys/s390dbf: -There are currently 2 possible triggers, which stop the debug feature -globally. The first possbility is to use the "debug_active" sysctl. If +There are currently 2 possible triggers, which stop the debug feature +globally. The first possibility is to use the "debug_active" sysctl. If set to 1 the debug feature is running. If "debug_active" is set to 0 the debug feature is turned off. The second trigger which stops the debug feature is an kernel oops. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/NinjaSCSI.txt b/Documentation/scsi/NinjaSCSI.txt index 17dd54786d37..73cec1211d7b 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/NinjaSCSI.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/NinjaSCSI.txt @@ -59,10 +59,10 @@ $ emacs Makefile ... $ make -[5] Copy nsp_cs.o to suitable plase, like /lib/modules/<Kernel version>/pcmcia/ . +[5] Copy nsp_cs.ko to suitable place, like /lib/modules/<Kernel version>/pcmcia/ . [6] Add these lines to /etc/pcmcia/config . - If you yse pcmcia-cs-3.1.8 or later, we can use "nsp_cs.conf" file. + If you use pcmcia-cs-3.1.8 or later, we can use "nsp_cs.conf" file. So, you don't need to edit file. Just copy to /etc/pcmcia/ . ------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt b/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt index 382b439b439e..2084ad5efb94 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ The following information is available in this file: - Add support for scsi_report_device_reset() found in 2.5.X kernels. - Add 7901B support. - - Simplify handling of the packtized lun Rev A workaround. + - Simplify handling of the packetized lun Rev A workaround. - Correct and simplify handling of the ignore wide residue message. The previous code would fail to report a residual if the transaction data length was even and we received diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/dc395x.txt b/Documentation/scsi/dc395x.txt index ae3b79a2d275..88219f96633d 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/dc395x.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/dc395x.txt @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Parameters ---------- The driver uses the settings from the EEPROM set in the SCSI BIOS setup. If there is no EEPROM, the driver uses default values. -Both can be overriden by command line parameters (module or kernel +Both can be overridden by command line parameters (module or kernel parameters). The following parameters are available: diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt b/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt index a783635b9a8e..9b9516364ec1 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt @@ -1086,7 +1086,7 @@ Q: "Reset SCSI-devices at boottime" halts the system at boottime, why? A: This is only tested with the IBM SCSI Adapter w/cache. It is not - yet prooved to run on other adapters, however you may be lucky. + yet proven to run on other adapters, however you may be lucky. In version 3.1d this has been hugely improved and should work better, now. Normally you really won't need to activate this flag in the kernel configuration, as all post 1989 SCSI-devices should accept diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt b/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt index 29cbbb64e1ce..ea8e98fad2bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt @@ -631,8 +631,8 @@ string variable using 'insmod'. A boot setup command for the ncr53c8xx (sym53c8xx) driver begins with the driver name "ncr53c8xx="(sym53c8xx). The kernel syntax parser then expects -an optionnal list of integers separated with comma followed by an optional -list of comma-separated strings. Example of boot setup command under lilo +an optional list of integers separated with comma followed by an optional +list of comma-separated strings. Example of boot setup command under lilo prompt: lilo: linux root=/dev/hda2 ncr53c8xx=tags:4,sync:10,debug:0x200 @@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ boot setup can be: ncr53c8xx=safe:y,mpar:y ncr53c8xx=safe:y -My personnal system works flawlessly with the following equivalent setup: +My personal system works flawlessly with the following equivalent setup: ncr53c8xx=mpar:y,spar:y,disc:y,specf:1,fsn:n,ultra:2,fsn:n,revprob:n,verb:1\ tags:32,sync:12,debug:0,burst:7,led:1,wide:1,settle:2,diff:0,irqm:0 diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi-changer.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-changer.txt index c132687b017a..d74bbd29eb3a 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi-changer.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-changer.txt @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ changers. But it allows to handle nearly all possible cases. It knows media transport - this one shuffles around the media, i.e. the transport arm. Also known as "picker". storage - a slot which can hold a media. - import/export - the same as above, but is accessable from outside, + import/export - the same as above, but is accessible from outside, i.e. there the operator (you !) can use this to fill in and remove media from the changer. Sometimes named "mailslot". diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/CMIPCI.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/CMIPCI.txt index 1872e24442a4..4cae0474b104 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/CMIPCI.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/CMIPCI.txt @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ in alsa-lib. For example, you can play a WAV file with 6 channels like % aplay -Dsurround51 sixchannels.wav -For programmin the 4/6 channel playback, you need to specify the PCM +For programming the 4/6 channel playback, you need to specify the PCM channels as you like and set the format S16LE. For example, for playback with 4 channels, diff --git a/Documentation/sparc/sbus_drivers.txt b/Documentation/sparc/sbus_drivers.txt index 4b9351624f13..7ac0695cba59 100644 --- a/Documentation/sparc/sbus_drivers.txt +++ b/Documentation/sparc/sbus_drivers.txt @@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ the bits necessary to run your device. The most commonly used members of this structure, and their typical usage, will be detailed below. - Here is a piece of skeleton code for perofming a device -probe in an SBUS driverunder Linux: + Here is a piece of skeleton code for performing a device +probe in an SBUS driver under Linux: static int __devinit mydevice_probe_one(struct sbus_dev *sdev) { diff --git a/Documentation/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt index ecee1002ead4..dc9440170119 100644 --- a/Documentation/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt @@ -2031,7 +2031,7 @@ there are multiple COWs associated with a backing file, a -d merge of one of them will invalidate all of the others. However, it is convenient if you're short of disk space, and it should also be - noticably faster than a non-destructive merge. + noticeably faster than a non-destructive merge. diff --git a/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt b/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt index eca85f373419..2899628f9daf 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ Digi AccelePort Driver work under SMP with the uhci driver. The driver is generally working, though we still have a few more ioctls - to implement and final testing and debugging to do. The paralled port + to implement and final testing and debugging to do. The parallel port on the USB 2 is supported as a serial to parallel converter; in other words, it appears as another USB serial port on Linux, even though physically it is really a parallel port. The Digi Acceleport USB 8 diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/cx2341x/fw-encoder-api.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/cx2341x/fw-encoder-api.txt index 001c68644b08..15df0df57ddd 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/cx2341x/fw-encoder-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/cx2341x/fw-encoder-api.txt @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ Param[0] Param[1] Unknown, but leaving this to 0 seems to work best. Indications are that this might have to do with USB support, although passing anything but 0 - onl breaks things. + only breaks things. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/w9968cf.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/w9968cf.txt index 0d53ce774b01..e0bba8393c77 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/w9968cf.txt +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/w9968cf.txt @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Index 5. Supported devices 6. Module dependencies 7. Module loading -8. Module paramaters +8. Module parameters 9. Contact information 10. Credits |