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| author | Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com> | 2010-04-23 00:08:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +0200 |
| commit | a33f32244d8550da8b4a26e277ce07d5c6d158b5 (patch) | |
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Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate
Fix obvious cases of "it's" being used when "its" was meant.
Signed-off-by: Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
56 files changed, 81 insertions, 81 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory index bf1627b02a03..aba7d989208c 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Date: September 2008 Contact: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Description: The file /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state - is read-write. When read, it's contents show the + is read-write. When read, its contents show the online/offline state of the memory section. When written, root can toggle the the online/offline state of a removable memory section (see removable file description above) diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt index 52618ab069ad..2e435adfbd6b 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt @@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ failure can be determined by: Closing -This document, and the API itself, would not be in it's current +This document, and the API itself, would not be in its current form without the feedback and suggestions from numerous individuals. We would like to specifically mention, in no particular order, the following people: diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl index ba9975771503..261b57bc6f08 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ void (*host_stop) (struct ata_host_set *host_set); allocates space for a legacy IDE PRD table and returns. </para> <para> - ->port_stop() is called after ->host_stop(). It's sole function + ->port_stop() is called after ->host_stop(). Its sole function is to release DMA/memory resources, now that they are no longer actively being used. Many drivers also free driver-private data from port at this time. diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.txt b/Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.txt index e83f2ea76415..898ded24510d 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.txt +++ b/Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.txt @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ The driver should return one of the following result codes: - PCI_ERS_RESULT_NEED_RESET Driver returns this if it thinks the device is not - recoverable in it's current state and it needs a slot + recoverable in its current state and it needs a slot reset to proceed. - PCI_ERS_RESULT_DISCONNECT @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ in working condition. The driver is not supposed to restart normal driver I/O operations at this point. It should limit itself to "probing" the device to -check it's recoverability status. If all is right, then the platform +check its recoverability status. If all is right, then the platform will call resume() once all drivers have ack'd link_reset(). Result codes: diff --git a/Documentation/Smack.txt b/Documentation/Smack.txt index 34614b4c708e..e9dab41c0fe0 100644 --- a/Documentation/Smack.txt +++ b/Documentation/Smack.txt @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ NOTE: Smack labels are limited to 23 characters. The attr command If you don't do anything special all users will get the floor ("_") label when they log in. If you do want to log in via the hacked ssh at other labels use the attr command to set the smack value on the -home directory and it's contents. +home directory and its contents. You can add access rules in /etc/smack/accesses. They take the form: diff --git a/Documentation/arm/SA1100/ADSBitsy b/Documentation/arm/SA1100/ADSBitsy index 7197a9e958ee..f9f62e8c0719 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/SA1100/ADSBitsy +++ b/Documentation/arm/SA1100/ADSBitsy @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Notes: - The flash on board is divided into 3 partitions. You should be careful to use flash on board. - It's partition is different from GraphicsClient Plus and GraphicsMaster + Its partition is different from GraphicsClient Plus and GraphicsMaster - 16bpp mode requires a different cable than what ships with the board. Contact ADS or look through the manual to wire your own. Currently, diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/ADC-LH7-Touchscreen b/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/ADC-LH7-Touchscreen index 1e6a23fdf2fc..dc460f055647 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/ADC-LH7-Touchscreen +++ b/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/ADC-LH7-Touchscreen @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ The driver only implements a four-wire touch panel protocol. The touchscreen driver is maintenance free except for the pen-down or touch threshold. Some resistive displays and board combinations may -require tuning of this threshold. The driver exposes some of it's +require tuning of this threshold. The driver exposes some of its internal state in the sys filesystem. If the kernel is configured with it, CONFIG_SYSFS, and sysfs is mounted at /sys, there will be a directory diff --git a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt index 396bec3b74ed..ac4d47187122 100644 --- a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt +++ b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ counter decrement would not become globally visible until the obj->active update does. As a historical note, 32-bit Sparc used to only allow usage of -24-bits of it's atomic_t type. This was because it used 8 bits +24-bits of its atomic_t type. This was because it used 8 bits as a spinlock for SMP safety. Sparc32 lacked a "compare and swap" type instruction. However, 32-bit Sparc has since been moved over to a "hash table of spinlocks" scheme, that allows the full 32-bit diff --git a/Documentation/blackfin/bfin-gpio-notes.txt b/Documentation/blackfin/bfin-gpio-notes.txt index 9898c7ded7d3..f731c1e56475 100644 --- a/Documentation/blackfin/bfin-gpio-notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/blackfin/bfin-gpio-notes.txt @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ void bfin_gpio_irq_free(unsigned gpio); The request functions will record the function state for a certain pin, - the free functions will clear it's function state. + the free functions will clear its function state. Once a pin is requested, it can't be requested again before it is freed by previous caller, otherwise kernel will dump stacks, and the request function fail. diff --git a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt index 2b5f823abd03..9164ae3b83bc 100644 --- a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt +++ b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ This document describes the cache/tlb flushing interfaces called by the Linux VM subsystem. It enumerates over each interface, -describes it's intended purpose, and what side effect is expected +describes its intended purpose, and what side effect is expected after the interface is invoked. The side effects described below are stated for a uniprocessor @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ require a whole different set of interfaces to handle properly. The biggest problem is that of virtual aliasing in the data cache of a processor. -Is your port susceptible to virtual aliasing in it's D-cache? +Is your port susceptible to virtual aliasing in its D-cache? Well, if your D-cache is virtually indexed, is larger in size than PAGE_SIZE, and does not prevent multiple cache lines for the same physical address from existing at once, you have this problem. @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ one way to solve this (in particular SPARC_FLAG_MMAPSHARED). Next, you have to solve the D-cache aliasing issue for all other cases. Please keep in mind that fact that, for a given page mapped into some user address space, there is always at least one more -mapping, that of the kernel in it's linear mapping starting at +mapping, that of the kernel in its linear mapping starting at PAGE_OFFSET. So immediately, once the first user maps a given physical page into its address space, by implication the D-cache aliasing problem has the potential to exist since the kernel already diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt index f7f68b2ac199..b7eececfb195 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y. we have to check if OLDPAGE/NEWPAGE is a valid page after commit(). 8. LRU - Each memcg has its own private LRU. Now, it's handling is under global + Each memcg has its own private LRU. Now, its handling is under global VM's control (means that it's handled under global zone->lru_lock). Almost all routines around memcg's LRU is called by global LRU's list management functions under zone->lru_lock(). diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 3a6aecd078ba..6cab1f29da4c 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ some of the pages cached in the cgroup (page cache pages). 4.2 Task migration -When a task migrates from one cgroup to another, it's charge is not +When a task migrates from one cgroup to another, its charge is not carried forward by default. The pages allocated from the original cgroup still remain charged to it, the charge is dropped when the page is freed or reclaimed. diff --git a/Documentation/connector/connector.txt b/Documentation/connector/connector.txt index 78c9466a9aa8..e5c5f5e6ab70 100644 --- a/Documentation/connector/connector.txt +++ b/Documentation/connector/connector.txt @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ int cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask); int gfp_mask - GFP mask. Note: When registering new callback user, connector core assigns - netlink group to the user which is equal to it's id.idx. + netlink group to the user which is equal to its id.idx. /*****************************************/ Protocol description. diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/ci.txt b/Documentation/dvb/ci.txt index 2ecd834585e6..4a0c2b56e690 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/ci.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/ci.txt @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ This application requires the following to function properly as of now. * Cards that fall in this category ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -At present the cards that fall in this category are the Twinhan and it's +At present the cards that fall in this category are the Twinhan and its clones, these cards are available as VVMER, Tomato, Hercules, Orange and so on. diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/contributors.txt b/Documentation/dvb/contributors.txt index 4865addebe1c..47c30098dab6 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/contributors.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/contributors.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Thanks go to the following people for patches and contributions: Michael Hunold <m.hunold@gmx.de> - for the initial saa7146 driver and it's recent overhaul + for the initial saa7146 driver and its recent overhaul Christian Theiss for his work on the initial Linux DVB driver diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt index 8f78ded4b648..51986bf08a4d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ found to be inadequate, in this case. The Generic Netlink system was used for this as raw Netlink would lead to a significant increase in complexity. There's no question that the Generic Netlink system is an elegant solution for common case ioctl functions but it's not a complete -replacement probably because it's primary purpose in life is to be a +replacement probably because its primary purpose in life is to be a message bus implementation rather than specifically an ioctl replacement. While it would be possible to work around this there is one concern that lead to the decision to not use it. This is that the autofs diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt index 0660c9f5deef..763d8ebbbebd 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Mount Options Specify the IP and/or port the client should bind to locally. There is normally not much reason to do this. If the IP is not specified, the client's IP address is determined by looking at the - address it's connection to the monitor originates from. + address its connection to the monitor originates from. wsize=X Specify the maximum write size in bytes. By default there is no diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dlmfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/dlmfs.txt index c50bbb2d52b4..1b528b2ad809 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/dlmfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dlmfs.txt @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ You'll want to start heartbeating on a volume which all the nodes in your lockspace can access. The easiest way to do this is via ocfs2_hb_ctl (distributed with ocfs2-tools). Right now it requires that an OCFS2 file system be in place so that it can automatically -find it's heartbeat area, though it will eventually support heartbeat +find its heartbeat area, though it will eventually support heartbeat against raw disks. Please see the ocfs2_hb_ctl and mkfs.ocfs2 manual pages distributed diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt index 606233cd4618..1b805a0efbb0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ flags, it will return EBADR and the contents of fm_flags will contain the set of flags which caused the error. If the kernel is compatible with all flags passed, the contents of fm_flags will be unmodified. It is up to userspace to determine whether rejection of a particular -flag is fatal to it's operation. This scheme is intended to allow the +flag is fatal to its operation. This scheme is intended to allow the fiemap interface to grow in the future but without losing compatibility with old software. @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ If this flag is set, the kernel will sync the file before mapping extents. * FIEMAP_FLAG_XATTR If this flag is set, the extents returned will describe the inodes -extended attribute lookup tree, instead of it's data tree. +extended attribute lookup tree, instead of its data tree. Extent Mapping @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ struct fiemap_extent { }; All offsets and lengths are in bytes and mirror those on disk. It is valid -for an extents logical offset to start before the request or it's logical +for an extents logical offset to start before the request or its logical length to extend past the request. Unless FIEMAP_EXTENT_NOT_ALIGNED is returned, fe_logical, fe_physical, and fe_length will be aligned to the block size of the file system. With the exception of extents flagged as @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ been allocated for the file yet. * FIEMAP_EXTENT_DELALLOC - This will also set FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN. -Delayed allocation - while there is data for this extent, it's +Delayed allocation - while there is data for this extent, its physical location has not been allocated yet. * FIEMAP_EXTENT_ENCODED @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Data is located within a meta data block. Data is packed into a block with data from other files. * FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNWRITTEN -Unwritten extent - the extent is allocated but it's data has not been +Unwritten extent - the extent is allocated but its data has not been initialized. This indicates the extent's data will be all zero if read through the filesystem but the contents are undefined if read directly from the device. @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ VFS -> File System Implementation File systems wishing to support fiemap must implement a ->fiemap callback on their inode_operations structure. The fs ->fiemap call is responsible for -defining it's set of supported fiemap flags, and calling a helper function on +defining its set of supported fiemap flags, and calling a helper function on each discovered extent: struct inode_operations { diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt index 397a41adb4c3..13af4a49e7db 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ Mount options 'default_permissions' By default FUSE doesn't check file access permissions, the - filesystem is free to implement it's access policy or leave it to + filesystem is free to implement its access policy or leave it to the underlying file access mechanism (e.g. in case of network filesystems). This option enables permission checking, restricting access based on file mode. It is usually useful together with the @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ or may honor them by sending a reply to the _original_ request, with the error set to EINTR. It is also possible that there's a race between processing the -original request and it's INTERRUPT request. There are two possibilities: +original request and its INTERRUPT request. There are two possibilities: 1) The INTERRUPT request is processed before the original request is processed diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt index fa45c3baed98..74630bd504fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ to analyze or change OS2SYS.INI. Codepages HPFS can contain several uppercasing tables for several codepages and each -file has a pointer to codepage it's name is in. However OS/2 was created in +file has a pointer to codepage its name is in. However OS/2 was created in America where people don't care much about codepages and so multiple codepages support is quite buggy. I have Czech OS/2 working in codepage 852 on my disk. Once I booted English OS/2 working in cp 850 and I created a file on my 852 diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.txt index 8a382bea6808..ebcaaee21616 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.txt @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ failed lookup meant a definite 'no'. request/response format ----------------------- -While each cache is free to use it's own format for requests +While each cache is free to use its own format for requests and responses over channel, the following is recommended as appropriate and support routines are available to help: Each request or response record should be printable ASCII diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 770700317c2c..f6b1b5fca1df 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ your system and how much traffic was routed over those devices: ...] 1375103 17405 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...] 1703981 5535 0 0 0 3 0 0 -In addition, each Channel Bond interface has it's own directory. For +In addition, each Channel Bond interface has its own directory. For example, the bond0 device will have a directory called /proc/net/bond0/. It will contain information that is specific to that bond, such as the current slaves of the bond, the link status of the slaves, and how @@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ been accounted as having caused 1MB of write. In other words: The number of bytes which this process caused to not happen, by truncating pagecache. A task can cause "negative" IO too. If this task truncates some dirty pagecache, some IO which another task has been accounted -for (in it's write_bytes) will not be happening. We _could_ just subtract that +for (in its write_bytes) will not be happening. We _could_ just subtract that from the truncating task's write_bytes, but there is information loss in doing that. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt index f673ef0de0f7..194fb0decd2c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt @@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ protocol used by Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95 and Windows NT. Smbfs was inspired by Samba, the program written by Andrew Tridgell that turns any Unix host into a file server for DOS or Windows clients. -Smbfs is a SMB client, but uses parts of samba for it's operation. For +Smbfs is a SMB client, but uses parts of samba for its operation. For more info on samba, including documentation, please go to http://www.samba.org/ and then on to your nearest mirror. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 3de2f32edd90..b66858538df5 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ structure (this is the kernel-side implementation of file descriptors). The freshly allocated file structure is initialized with a pointer to the dentry and a set of file operation member functions. These are taken from the inode data. The open() file method is then -called so the specific filesystem implementation can do it's work. You +called so the specific filesystem implementation can do its work. You can see that this is another switch performed by the VFS. The file structure is placed into the file descriptor table for the process. diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lm85 b/Documentation/hwmon/lm85 index a13680871bc7..a76aefeeb68a 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/lm85 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lm85 @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ temperature configuration points: There are three PWM outputs. The LM85 datasheet suggests that the pwm3 output control both fan3 and fan4. Each PWM can be individually -configured and assigned to a zone for it's control value. Each PWM can be +configured and assigned to a zone for its control value. Each PWM can be configured individually according to the following options. * pwm#_auto_pwm_min - this specifies the PWM value for temp#_auto_temp_off diff --git a/Documentation/input/joystick.txt b/Documentation/input/joystick.txt index 154d767b2acb..8007b7ca87bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/joystick.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/joystick.txt @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ for the port of the SoundFusion is supported by the cs461x.c module. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Live! has a special PCI gameport, which, although it doesn't provide any "Enhanced" stuff like 4DWave and friends, is quite a bit faster than -it's ISA counterparts. It also requires special support, hence the +its ISA counterparts. It also requires special support, hence the emu10k1-gp.c module for it instead of the normal ns558.c one. 3.15 SoundBlaster 64 and 128 - ES1370 and ES1371, ESS Solo1 and S3 SonicVibes diff --git a/Documentation/intel_txt.txt b/Documentation/intel_txt.txt index f40a1f030019..1423bcc7c507 100644 --- a/Documentation/intel_txt.txt +++ b/Documentation/intel_txt.txt @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ o Tboot then applies an (optional) user-defined launch policy to o Tboot adjusts the e820 table provided by the bootloader to reserve its own location in memory as well as to reserve certain other TXT-related regions. -o As part of it's launch, tboot DMA protects all of RAM (using the +o As part of its launch, tboot DMA protects all of RAM (using the VT-d PMRs). Thus, the kernel must be booted with 'intel_iommu=on' in order to remove this blanket protection and use VT-d's page-level protection. diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt index c412c245848f..b472e4e0ba67 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ Expressions are listed in decreasing order of precedence. (7) Returns the result of max(/expr/, /expr/). An expression can have a value of 'n', 'm' or 'y' (or 0, 1, 2 -respectively for calculations). A menu entry becomes visible when it's +respectively for calculations). A menu entry becomes visible when its expression evaluates to 'm' or 'y'. There are two types of symbols: constant and non-constant symbols. diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt index 28cdc2af2131..ec8d31ee12e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza. URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391 Keywords: RAID, MD driver. - Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's + Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its abstract: "A description of the implementation of the RAID-1, RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable, @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219 Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules, allocating resources. - Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's + Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its abstract: "This is the first of a series of four articles co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module, autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations, open(), close(). - Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's + Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its abstract: "This article, the second of four, introduces part of the actual code to create custom module implementing a character device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221 Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non blocking mode, interrupt handler. - Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's + Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its abstract: "This article, the third of four on writing character device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using ioctl-calls". @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz. URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222 Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues. - Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's + Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its abstract: "This is the fourth in a series of articles about writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling. diff --git a/Documentation/kprobes.txt b/Documentation/kprobes.txt index 2f9115c0ae62..51ec634ac04b 100644 --- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt +++ b/Documentation/kprobes.txt @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ occurs during execution of kp->pre_handler or kp->post_handler, or during single-stepping of the probed instruction, Kprobes calls kp->fault_handler. Any or all handlers can be NULL. If kp->flags is set KPROBE_FLAG_DISABLED, that kp will be registered but disabled, -so, it's handlers aren't hit until calling enable_kprobe(kp). +so, its handlers aren't hit until calling enable_kprobe(kp). NOTE: 1. With the introduction of the "symbol_name" field to struct kprobe, diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt b/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt index 2c3c35093023..0bf25eebce94 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt +++ b/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ Tips & Tricks * Drew Scott Daniels observed: "I don't know why, but when I decrease the number of colours that my display uses it consumes less battery power. I've seen this on powerbooks too. I hope that this is a piece of information that - might be useful to the Laptop Mode patch or it's users." + might be useful to the Laptop Mode patch or its users." * In syslog.conf, you can prefix entries with a dash ``-'' to omit syncing the file after every logging. When you're using laptop-mode and your disk doesn't diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c index 3119f5db75bd..e9ce3c554514 100644 --- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c +++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ static u8 *get_feature_bits(struct device *dev) * Launcher virtual with an offset. * * This can be tough to get your head around, but usually it just means that we - * use these trivial conversion functions when the Guest gives us it's + * use these trivial conversion functions when the Guest gives us its * "physical" addresses: */ static void *from_guest_phys(unsigned long addr) diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt index 188f4768f1d5..e4e893ef3e01 100644 --- a/Documentation/md.txt +++ b/Documentation/md.txt @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ raid_disks != 0. Then uninitialized devices can be added with ADD_NEW_DISK. The structure passed to ADD_NEW_DISK must specify the state of the device -and it's role in the array. +and its role in the array. Once started with RUN_ARRAY, uninitialized spares can be added with HOT_ADD_DISK. diff --git a/Documentation/netlabel/lsm_interface.txt b/Documentation/netlabel/lsm_interface.txt index 98dd9f7430f2..638c74f7de7f 100644 --- a/Documentation/netlabel/lsm_interface.txt +++ b/Documentation/netlabel/lsm_interface.txt @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Depending on the exact configuration, translation between the network packet label and the internal LSM security identifier can be time consuming. The NetLabel label mapping cache is a caching mechanism which can be used to sidestep much of this overhead once a mapping has been established. Once the -LSM has received a packet, used NetLabel to decode it's security attributes, +LSM has received a packet, used NetLabel to decode its security attributes, and translated the security attributes into a LSM internal identifier the LSM can use the NetLabel caching functions to associate the LSM internal identifier with the network packet's label. This means that in the future diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c b/Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c index 1b96ccda3836..2bac9618c345 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c +++ b/Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c @@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ static int enslave(char *master_ifname, char *slave_ifname) */ if (abi_ver < 1) { /* For old ABI, the master needs to be - * down before setting it's hwaddr + * down before setting its hwaddr */ res = set_if_down(master_ifname, master_flags.ifr_flags); if (res) { diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt index 09ab0d290326..98f71a5cef00 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ by the kernel. The destruction of the socket and all associated resources is done by a simple call to close(fd). -Next I will describe PACKET_MMAP settings and it's constraints, +Next I will describe PACKET_MMAP settings and its constraints, also the mapping of the circular buffer in the user process and the use of this buffer. @@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ TP_STATUS_LOSING : indicates there were packet drops from last time the PACKET_STATISTICS option. TP_STATUS_CSUMNOTREADY: currently it's used for outgoing IP packets which - it's checksum will be done in hardware. So while + its checksum will be done in hardware. So while reading the packet we should not try to check the checksum. diff --git a/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt b/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt index cdebb5145c25..55c4175d8099 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt @@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ Please see overview.txt for a description of the terms used in this text. 1. Consumer Regulator Access (static & dynamic drivers) ======================================================= -A consumer driver can get access to it's supply regulator by calling :- +A consumer driver can get access to its supply regulator by calling :- regulator = regulator_get(dev, "Vcc"); -The consumer passes in it's struct device pointer and power supply ID. The core +The consumer passes in its struct device pointer and power supply ID. The core then finds the correct regulator by consulting a machine specific lookup table. If the lookup is successful then this call will return a pointer to the struct regulator that supplies this consumer. @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ usually be called in your device drivers probe() and remove() respectively. 2. Regulator Output Enable & Disable (static & dynamic drivers) ==================================================================== -A consumer can enable it's power supply by calling:- +A consumer can enable its power supply by calling:- int regulator_enable(regulator); @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ int regulator_is_enabled(regulator); This will return > zero when the regulator is enabled. -A consumer can disable it's supply when no longer needed by calling :- +A consumer can disable its supply when no longer needed by calling :- int regulator_disable(regulator); @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ by calling :- int regulator_set_optimum_mode(struct regulator *regulator, int load_uA); This will cause the core to recalculate the total load on the regulator (based -on all it's consumers) and change operating mode (if necessary and permitted) +on all its consumers) and change operating mode (if necessary and permitted) to best match the current operating load. The load_uA value can be determined from the consumers datasheet. e.g.most diff --git a/Documentation/power/regulator/machine.txt b/Documentation/power/regulator/machine.txt index 63728fed620b..bdec39b9bd75 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/regulator/machine.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/regulator/machine.txt @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ static struct regulator_init_data regulator1_data = { }; Regulator-1 supplies power to Regulator-2. This relationship must be registered -with the core so that Regulator-1 is also enabled when Consumer A enables it's +with the core so that Regulator-1 is also enabled when Consumer A enables its supply (Regulator-2). The supply regulator is set by the supply_regulator_dev field below:- diff --git a/Documentation/power/regulator/overview.txt b/Documentation/power/regulator/overview.txt index ffd185bb6054..9363e056188a 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/regulator/overview.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/regulator/overview.txt @@ -35,16 +35,16 @@ Some terms used in this document:- o Consumer - Electronic device that is supplied power by a regulator. Consumers can be classified into two types:- - Static: consumer does not change it's supply voltage or + Static: consumer does not change its supply voltage or current limit. It only needs to enable or disable it's - power supply. It's supply voltage is set by the hardware, + power supply. Its supply voltage is set by the hardware, bootloader, firmware or kernel board initialisation code. Dynamic: consumer needs to change it's supply voltage or current limit to meet operation demands. - o Power Domain - Electronic circuit that is supplied it's input power by the + o Power Domain - Electronic circuit that is supplied its input power by the output power of a regulator, switch or by another power domain. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt index 79f533f38c61..46d22105aa07 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt @@ -1289,7 +1289,7 @@ link between a device node and its interrupt parent in the interrupt tree. The value of interrupt-parent is the phandle of the parent node. -If the interrupt-parent property is not defined for a node, it's +If the interrupt-parent property is not defined for a node, its interrupt parent is assumed to be an ancestor in the node's _device tree_ hierarchy. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/phyp-assisted-dump.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/phyp-assisted-dump.txt index c4682b982a2e..ad340205d96a 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/phyp-assisted-dump.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/phyp-assisted-dump.txt @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ dump offers several strong, practical advantages: immediately available to the system for normal use. -- After the dump is completed, no further reboots are required; the system will be fully usable, and running - in it's normal, production mode on it normal kernel. + in its normal, production mode on its normal kernel. The above can only be accomplished by coordination with, and assistance from the hypervisor. The procedure is diff --git a/Documentation/rt-mutex-design.txt b/Documentation/rt-mutex-design.txt index 4b736d24da7a..8df0b782c4d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/rt-mutex-design.txt +++ b/Documentation/rt-mutex-design.txt @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ here. The waiter structure has a "task" field that points to the task that is blocked on the mutex. This field can be NULL the first time it goes through the loop -or if the task is a pending owner and had it's mutex stolen. If the "task" +or if the task is a pending owner and had its mutex stolen. If the "task" field is NULL then we need to set up the accounting for it. Task blocks on mutex diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc index 2ffc1148eb95..e759e92e286d 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc @@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ Changes from 20040920 to 20041018 * Integrate patches from Christoph Hellwig: two new helpers common to lpfc_sli_resume_iocb and lpfc_sli_issue_iocb - singificant cleanup of those two functions - the unused SLI_IOCB_USE_TXQ is - gone - lpfc_sli_issue_iocb_wait loses it's flags argument + gone - lpfc_sli_issue_iocb_wait loses its flags argument totally. * Fix in lpfc_sli.c: we can not store a 5 bit value in a 4-bit field. @@ -1028,7 +1028,7 @@ Changes from 20040614 to 20040709 * Remove the need for buf_tmo. * Changed ULP_BDE64 to struct ulp_bde64. * Changed ULP_BDE to struct ulp_bde. - * Cleanup lpfc_os_return_scsi_cmd() and it's call path. + * Cleanup lpfc_os_return_scsi_cmd() and its call path. * Removed lpfc_no_device_delay. * Consolidating lpfc_hba_put_event() into lpfc_put_event(). * Removed following attributes and their functionality: diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/FlashPoint.txt b/Documentation/scsi/FlashPoint.txt index d5acaa300a46..1540a92f6d2b 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/FlashPoint.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/FlashPoint.txt @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ peters@mylex.com Ever since its introduction last October, the BusLogic FlashPoint LT has been problematic for members of the Linux community, in that no Linux -drivers have been available for this new Ultra SCSI product. Despite it's +drivers have been available for this new Ultra SCSI product. Despite its officially being positioned as a desktop workstation product, and not being particularly well suited for a high performance multitasking operating system like Linux, the FlashPoint LT has been touted by computer system diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/dtc3x80.txt b/Documentation/scsi/dtc3x80.txt index e8ae6230ab3e..1d7af9f9a8ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/dtc3x80.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/dtc3x80.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ The 3180 does not. Otherwise, they are identical. The DTC3x80 does not support DMA but it does have Pseudo-DMA which is supported by the driver. -It's DTC406 scsi chip is supposedly compatible with the NCR 53C400. +Its DTC406 scsi chip is supposedly compatible with the NCR 53C400. It is memory mapped, uses an IRQ, but no dma or io-port. There is internal DMA, between SCSI bus and an on-chip 128-byte buffer. Double buffering is done automagically by the chip. Data is transferred diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt b/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt index 08e2b4d04aab..cda5f8fa2c66 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt @@ -1479,7 +1479,7 @@ Wide16 SCSI. Enabling serial NVRAM support enables detection of the serial NVRAM included on Symbios and some Symbios compatible host adaptors, and Tekram boards. The serial NVRAM is used by Symbios and Tekram to hold set up parameters for the -host adaptor and it's attached drives. +host adaptor and its attached drives. The Symbios NVRAM also holds data on the boot order of host adaptors in a system with more than one host adaptor. This enables the order of scanning diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/osst.txt b/Documentation/scsi/osst.txt index f536907e241d..2b21890bc983 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/osst.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/osst.txt @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ behavior looks very much the same as st to the userspace applications. History ------- -In the first place, osst shared it's identity very much with st. That meant +In the first place, osst shared its identity very much with st. That meant that it used the same kernel structures and the same device node as st. So you could only have either of them being present in the kernel. This has been fixed by registering an own device, now. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt index aec6549ab097..e00192de4d1c 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Overview: up to an administrative entity controlling the vport. For example, if vports are to be associated with virtual machines, a XEN mgmt utility would be responsible for creating wwpn/wwnn's for the vport, - using it's own naming authority and OUI. (Note: it already does this + using its own naming authority and OUI. (Note: it already does this for virtual MAC addresses). @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Device Trees and Vport Objects: with rports and scsi target objects underneath it. Currently the FC transport creates the vport object and places it under the scsi_host object corresponding to the physical adapter. The LLDD will allocate - a new scsi_host for the vport and link it's object under the vport. + a new scsi_host for the vport and link its object under the vport. The remainder of the tree under the vports scsi_host is the same as the non-NPIV case. The transport is written currently to easily allow the parent of the vport to be something other than the scsi_host. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt b/Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt index eb9a7b905b64..6f63b7989679 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt @@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ maintain the driver code. Enabling serial NVRAM support enables detection of the serial NVRAM included on Symbios and some Symbios compatible host adaptors, and Tekram boards. The serial NVRAM is used by Symbios and Tekram to hold set up parameters for the -host adaptor and it's attached drives. +host adaptor and its attached drives. The Symbios NVRAM also holds data on the boot order of host adaptors in a system with more than one host adaptor. This information is no longer used diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/dapm.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/dapm.txt index 9ac842be9b4f..05bf5a0eee41 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/dapm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/dapm.txt @@ -188,8 +188,8 @@ The WM8731 output mixer has 3 inputs (sources) 3. Mic Sidetone Input Each input in this example has a kcontrol associated with it (defined in example -above) and is connected to the output mixer via it's kcontrol name. We can now -connect the destination widget (wrt audio signal) with it's source widgets. +above) and is connected to the output mixer via its kcontrol name. We can now +connect the destination widget (wrt audio signal) with its source widgets. /* output mixer */ {"Output Mixer", "Line Bypass Switch", "Line Input"}, diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/machine.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/machine.txt index bab7711ce963..2524c75557df 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/machine.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/machine.txt @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ static struct snd_soc_dai_link corgi_dai = { .ops = &corgi_ops, }; -struct snd_soc_card then sets up the machine with it's DAIs. e.g. +struct snd_soc_card then sets up the machine with its DAIs. e.g. /* corgi audio machine driver */ static struct snd_soc_card snd_soc_corgi = { diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/overview.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/overview.txt index 1e4c6d3655f2..138ac88c1461 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/overview.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/overview.txt @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ features :- and machines. * Easy I2S/PCM audio interface setup between codec and SoC. Each SoC - interface and codec registers it's audio interface capabilities with the + interface and codec registers its audio interface capabilities with the core and are subsequently matched and configured when the application hardware parameters are known. diff --git a/Documentation/usb/WUSB-Design-overview.txt b/Documentation/usb/WUSB-Design-overview.txt index c480e9c32dbd..4c5e37939344 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/WUSB-Design-overview.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/WUSB-Design-overview.txt @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ descriptor that gives us the status of the transfer, its identification we issue another URB to read into the destination buffer the chunk of data coming out of the remote endpoint. Done, wait for the next guy. The callbacks for the URBs issued from here are the ones that will declare -the xfer complete at some point and call it's callback. +the xfer complete at some point and call its callback. Seems simple, but the implementation is not trivial. diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt index be45dbb9d7f2..6690fc34ef6d 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ most general to most specific: to establish the task policy for a child task exec()'d from an executable image that has no awareness of memory policy. See the MEMORY POLICY APIS section, below, for an overview of the system call - that a task may use to set/change it's task/process policy. + that a task may use to set/change its task/process policy. In a multi-threaded task, task policies apply only to the thread [Linux kernel task] that installs the policy and any threads @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ decrement this reference count, respectively. mpol_put() will only free the structure back to the mempolicy kmem cache when the reference count goes to zero. -When a new memory policy is allocated, it's reference count is initialized +When a new memory policy is allocated, its reference count is initialized to '1', representing the reference held by the task that is installing the new policy. When a pointer to a memory policy structure is stored in another structure, another reference is added, as the task's reference will be dropped diff --git a/Documentation/w1/w1.generic b/Documentation/w1/w1.generic index e3333eec4320..212f4ac31c01 100644 --- a/Documentation/w1/w1.generic +++ b/Documentation/w1/w1.generic @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ When a w1 master driver registers with the w1 subsystem, the following occurs: - sysfs entries for that w1 master are created - the w1 bus is periodically searched for new slave devices -When a device is found on the bus, w1 core checks if driver for it's family is +When a device is found on the bus, w1 core checks if driver for its family is loaded. If so, the family driver is attached to the slave. If there is no driver for the family, default one is assigned, which allows to perform almost any kind of operations. Each logical operation is a transaction |