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authorMasanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>2012-11-08 21:57:35 +0900
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2012-11-19 14:28:24 +0100
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doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
Correct spelling typo in Documentations Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ppi2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/fault-injection/notifier-error-inject.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hid/uhid.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/input/alps.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version.c4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Cards2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/frontswap.txt2
11 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg b/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg
index 7e7e07a82e0e..bb820be48179 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Description: The /dev/kmsg character device node provides userspace access
The flags field carries '-' by default. A 'c' indicates a
fragment of a line. All following fragments are flagged with
'+'. Note, that these hints about continuation lines are not
- neccessarily correct, and the stream could be interleaved with
+ necessarily correct, and the stream could be interleaved with
unrelated messages, but merging the lines in the output
usually produces better human readable results. A similar
logic is used internally when messages are printed to the
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power
index 45000f0db4d4..f76a0447da74 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Description:
The /sys/devices/.../wakeup_prevent_sleep_time_ms attribute
contains the total time the device has been preventing
- opportunistic transitions to sleep states from occuring.
+ opportunistic transitions to sleep states from occurring.
This attribute is read-only. If the device is not enabled to
wake up the system from sleep states, this attribute is not
present.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ppi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ppi
index 97a003ee058b..7d1435bc976c 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ppi
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ppi
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Contact: xiaoyan.zhang@intel.com
Description:
This folder includes the attributes related with PPI (Physical
Presence Interface). Only if TPM is supported by BIOS, this
- folder makes sence. The folder path can be got by command
+ folder makes sense. The folder path can be got by command
'find /sys/ -name 'pcrs''. For the detail information of PPI,
please refer to the PPI specification from
http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/
diff --git a/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt b/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt
index ad86fb86c9a0..0188903bc9e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt
+++ b/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ Being able to mmap an export dma-buf buffer object has 2 main use-cases:
leaving the cpu domain and flushing caches at fault time. Note that all the
dma_buf files share the same anon inode, hence the exporter needs to replace
the dma_buf file stored in vma->vm_file with it's own if pte shootdown is
- requred. This is because the kernel uses the underlying inode's address_space
+ required. This is because the kernel uses the underlying inode's address_space
for vma tracking (and hence pte tracking at shootdown time with
unmap_mapping_range).
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ Being able to mmap an export dma-buf buffer object has 2 main use-cases:
Exporters that shoot down mappings (for any reasons) shall not do any
synchronization at fault time with outstanding device operations.
Synchronization is an orthogonal issue to sharing the backing storage of a
- buffer and hence should not be handled by dma-buf itself. This is explictly
+ buffer and hence should not be handled by dma-buf itself. This is explicitly
mentioned here because many people seem to want something like this, but if
different exporters handle this differently, buffer sharing can fail in
interesting ways depending upong the exporter (if userspace starts depending
diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/notifier-error-inject.txt b/Documentation/fault-injection/notifier-error-inject.txt
index c83526c364e5..09adabef513f 100644
--- a/Documentation/fault-injection/notifier-error-inject.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/notifier-error-inject.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Notifier error injection
========================
-Notifier error injection provides the ability to inject artifical errors to
+Notifier error injection provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error handling of
notifier call chain failures which is rarely executed. There are kernel
modules that can be used to test the following notifiers.
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ modules that can be used to test the following notifiers.
CPU notifier error injection module
-----------------------------------
This feature can be used to test the error handling of the CPU notifiers by
-injecting artifical errors to CPU notifier chain callbacks.
+injecting artificial errors to CPU notifier chain callbacks.
If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events notified, write
the error code to debugfs interface
diff --git a/Documentation/hid/uhid.txt b/Documentation/hid/uhid.txt
index 4627c4241ece..3c741214dfbb 100644
--- a/Documentation/hid/uhid.txt
+++ b/Documentation/hid/uhid.txt
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ the request was handled successfully.
UHID_FEATURE_ANSWER:
If you receive a UHID_FEATURE request you must answer with this request. You
must copy the "id" field from the request into the answer. Set the "err" field
- to 0 if no error occured or to EIO if an I/O error occurred.
+ to 0 if no error occurred or to EIO if an I/O error occurred.
If "err" is 0 then you should fill the buffer of the answer with the results
of the feature request and set "size" correspondingly.
diff --git a/Documentation/input/alps.txt b/Documentation/input/alps.txt
index ae8ba9a74ce1..3262b6e4d686 100644
--- a/Documentation/input/alps.txt
+++ b/Documentation/input/alps.txt
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ number of contacts (f1 and f0 in the table below).
This packet only appears after a position packet with the mt bit set, and
usually only appears when there are two or more contacts (although
-occassionally it's seen with only a single contact).
+occasionally it's seen with only a single contact).
The final v3 packet type is the trackstick packet.
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
index 3fb39e0116b4..69372fb98cf8 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ build.
Sometimes, an external module uses exported symbols from
another external module. kbuild needs to have full knowledge of
- all symbols to avoid spitting out warnings about undefined
+ all symbols to avoid spliitting out warnings about undefined
symbols. Three solutions exist for this situation.
NOTE: The method with a top-level kbuild file is recommended
diff --git a/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version.c b/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version.c
index 01804f216312..49e4f770864a 100644
--- a/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version.c
+++ b/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version.c
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ out:
}
/***************************************************************************
- * Intel Advanced Management Technolgy ME Client
+ * Intel Advanced Management Technology ME Client
***************************************************************************/
#define AMT_MAJOR_VERSION 1
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ struct amt_code_versions {
} __attribute__((packed));
/***************************************************************************
- * Intel Advanced Management Technolgy Host Interface
+ * Intel Advanced Management Technology Host Interface
***************************************************************************/
struct amt_host_if_msg_header {
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Cards b/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Cards
index db833ced2cb8..a8fb6e2d3c8b 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Cards
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Cards
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Very nice card if you only have satellite TV but several tuners connected
to the card via composite.
Many thanks to Matrix-Vision for giving us 2 cards for free which made
-Bt848a/Bt849 single crytal operation support possible!!!
+Bt848a/Bt849 single crystal operation support possible!!!
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/frontswap.txt b/Documentation/vm/frontswap.txt
index 5ef2d1366425..c71a019be600 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/frontswap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/frontswap.txt
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ faster.
or maybe swap-over-nbd/NFS)?
No. First, the existing swap subsystem doesn't allow for any kind of
-swap hierarchy. Perhaps it could be rewritten to accomodate a hierarchy,
+swap hierarchy. Perhaps it could be rewritten to accommodate a hierarchy,
but this would require fairly drastic changes. Even if it were
rewritten, the existing swap subsystem uses the block I/O layer which
assumes a swap device is fixed size and any page in it is linearly