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authorAndrzej Zaborowski <balrogg@gmail.com>2006-03-24 18:13:37 +0100
committerAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>2006-03-24 18:13:37 +0100
commit13fce8062968996da496d4f65cc1c1f845704604 (patch)
treefa8f3e8ee813397d043efd81780c487531705aa1
parent53813158012f4d9272e5ccdc005671e780a39931 (diff)
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Fix simple typos
This corrects some trivial errors in ARM docs and comments, Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/Booting2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/README2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/Setup2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/timer.h6
4 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Booting b/Documentation/arm/Booting
index fad566bb02fc..76850295af8f 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/Booting
+++ b/Documentation/arm/Booting
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ to store page tables. The recommended placement is 32KiB into RAM.
In either case, the following conditions must be met:
-- Quiesce all DMA capable devicess so that memory does not get
+- Quiesce all DMA capable devices so that memory does not get
corrupted by bogus network packets or disk data. This will save
you many hours of debug.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/README b/Documentation/arm/README
index 5ed6f3530b86..9b9c8226fdc4 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/README
+++ b/Documentation/arm/README
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Modules
Although modularisation is supported (and required for the FP emulator),
each module on an ARM2/ARM250/ARM3 machine when is loaded will take
memory up to the next 32k boundary due to the size of the pages.
- Therefore, modularisation on these machines really worth it?
+ Therefore, is modularisation on these machines really worth it?
However, ARM6 and up machines allow modules to take multiples of 4k, and
as such Acorn RiscPCs and other architectures using these processors can
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Setup b/Documentation/arm/Setup
index 0abd0720d7ed..0cb1e64bde80 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/Setup
+++ b/Documentation/arm/Setup
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ below:
video_y
This describes the character position of cursor on VGA console, and
- is otherwise unused. (should not used for other console types, and
+ is otherwise unused. (should not be used for other console types, and
should not be used for other purposes).
memc_control_reg
diff --git a/include/linux/timer.h b/include/linux/timer.h
index 9b9877fd2505..ee5a09e806e8 100644
--- a/include/linux/timer.h
+++ b/include/linux/timer.h
@@ -69,13 +69,13 @@ extern unsigned long next_timer_interrupt(void);
* @timer: the timer to be added
*
* The kernel will do a ->function(->data) callback from the
- * timer interrupt at the ->expired point in the future. The
+ * timer interrupt at the ->expires point in the future. The
* current time is 'jiffies'.
*
- * The timer's ->expired, ->function (and if the handler uses it, ->data)
+ * The timer's ->expires, ->function (and if the handler uses it, ->data)
* fields must be set prior calling this function.
*
- * Timers with an ->expired field in the past will be executed in the next
+ * Timers with an ->expires field in the past will be executed in the next
* timer tick.
*/
static inline void add_timer(struct timer_list *timer)