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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-03 16:35:11 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-03 16:35:11 -0700
commit708e16892e1646594a29eaa7ac7b209b600b9fd2 (patch)
treefe7c31bc0edef84eb1075c7e195340047d6aaa17 /Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
parentf3c87a8999c28f2948ebd407574f7e9fb5c577b2 (diff)
parenta847825970e741e20a09c659978baa34016b63bc (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (39 commits) Add missing maintainer countries in CREDITS Fix bytes <-> kilobytes typo in Kconfig for ramdisk fix a typo in Documentation/pi-futex.txt BUG_ON conversion for fs/xfs/ BUG_ON() conversion in fs/nfsd/ BUG_ON conversion for fs/reiserfs BUG_ON cleanups in arch/i386 BUG_ON cleanup in drivers/net/tokenring/ BUG_ON cleanup for drivers/md/ kerneldoc-typo in led-class.c debugfs: spelling fix rcutorture: Fix incorrect description of default for nreaders parameter parport: Remove space in function calls Michal Wronski: update contact info Spelling fix: "control" instead of "cotrol" reboot parameter in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt Fix copy&waste bug in comment in scripts/kernel-doc remove duplicate "until" from kernel/workqueue.c ite_gpio fix tabbage fix file specification in comments ... Fixed trivial path conflicts due to removed files: arch/mips/dec/boot/decstation.c, drivers/char/ite_gpio.c
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diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
index 958ff3d48be..7e8ae83e984 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ daemon and it crashes the system will not reboot. Because of this,
some of the drivers support the configuration option "Disable watchdog
shutdown on close", CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT. If it is set to Y when
compiling the kernel, there is no way of disabling the watchdog once
-it has been started. So, if the watchdog dameon crashes, the system
+it has been started. So, if the watchdog daemon crashes, the system
will reboot after the timeout has passed.
Some other drivers will not disable the watchdog, unless a specific
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ Note that not all devices support these two calls, and some only
support the GETBOOTSTATUS call.
Some drivers can measure the temperature using the GETTEMP ioctl. The
-returned value is the temperature in degrees farenheit.
+returned value is the temperature in degrees fahrenheit.
int temperature;
ioctl(fd, WDIOC_GETTEMP, &temperature);
@@ -258,13 +258,13 @@ booke_wdt.c -- PowerPC BookE Watchdog Timer
Timeout default varies according to frequency, supports
SETTIMEOUT
- Watchdog can not be turned off, CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
+ Watchdog cannot be turned off, CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
does not make sense
GETSUPPORT returns the watchdog_info struct, and
GETSTATUS returns the supported options. GETBOOTSTATUS
returns a 1 if the last reset was caused by the
- watchdog and a 0 otherwise. This watchdog can not be
+ watchdog and a 0 otherwise. This watchdog cannot be
disabled once it has been started. The wdt_period kernel
parameter selects which bit of the time base changing
from 0->1 will trigger the watchdog exception. Changing