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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/memory-barriers.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/iphase.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/s390/crypto/crypto-API.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/st.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sharedsubtree.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/usb/rio.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt2
22 files changed, 35 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt b/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
index 705f6be92bd..e767805b418 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ lock.
Once the DMA transfer is finished (or timed out) you should disable
the channel again. You should also check get_dma_residue() to make
-sure that all data has been transfered.
+sure that all data has been transferred.
Example:
diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt
index 92ebf29e904..b55e041c825 100644
--- a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt
@@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ a) TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_PID/TGID : attribute containing no payload but indicates
a pid/tgid will be followed by some stats.
b) TASKSTATS_TYPE_PID/TGID: attribute whose payload is the pid/tgid whose stats
-is being returned.
+are being returned.
-c) TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS: attribute with a struct taskstsats as payload. The
+c) TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS: attribute with a struct taskstats as payload. The
same structure is used for both per-pid and per-tgid stats.
3. New message sent by kernel whenever a task exits. The payload consists of a
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt
index a584f05403a..3d744773895 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ For each connection the following files exist within this directory:
'waiting'
- The number of requests which are waiting to be transfered to
+ The number of requests which are waiting to be transferred to
userspace or being processed by the filesystem daemon. If there is
no filesystem activity and 'waiting' is non-zero, then the
filesystem is hung or deadlocked.
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ following will happen:
2) If the request is not yet sent to userspace AND the signal is not
fatal, then an 'interrupted' flag is set for the request. When
- the request has been successfully transfered to userspace and
+ the request has been successfully transferred to userspace and
this flag is set, an INTERRUPT request is queued.
3) If the request is already sent to userspace, then an INTERRUPT
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
index 35f105b29e3..21e7ba11f69 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ Finally, for a mirrored volume, i.e. raid level 1, the table would look like
this (note all values are in 512-byte sectors):
--- cut here ---
-# Ofs Size Raid Log Number Region Should Number Source Start Taget Start
+# Ofs Size Raid Log Number Region Should Number Source Start Target Start
# in of the type type of log size sync? of Device in Device in
# vol volume params mirrors Device Device
0 2056320 mirror core 2 16 nosync 2 /dev/hda1 0 /dev/hdb1 0
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 3355e692010..bbd2e58d39d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1538,10 +1538,10 @@ TCP settings
tcp_ecn
-------
-This file controls the use of the ECN bit in the IPv4 headers, this is a new
+This file controls the use of the ECN bit in the IPv4 headers. This is a new
feature about Explicit Congestion Notification, but some routers and firewalls
-block trafic that has this bit set, so it could be necessary to echo 0 to
-/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn, if you want to talk to this sites. For more info
+block traffic that has this bit set, so it could be necessary to echo 0 to
+/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn if you want to talk to these sites. For more info
you could read RFC2481.
tcp_retrans_collapse
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 7751704b6db..58408dd023c 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ There are some minimal guarantees that may be expected of a CPU:
STORE *X = c, d = LOAD *X
- (Loads and stores overlap if they are targetted at overlapping pieces of
+ (Loads and stores overlap if they are targeted at overlapping pieces of
memory).
And there are a number of things that _must_ or _must_not_ be assumed:
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt
index 93af3e87c65..c300f26a277 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ There are two types of event register ACK mechanisms.
Move all to dev->poll()
C) Ability to detect new work correctly.
-NAPI works by shutting down event interrupts when theres work and
-turning them on when theres none.
+NAPI works by shutting down event interrupts when there's work and
+turning them on when there's none.
New packets might show up in the small window while interrupts were being
re-enabled (refer to appendix 2). A packet might sneak in during the period
we are enabling interrupts. We only get to know about such a packet when the
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Locking rules and environmental guarantees
only one CPU can pick the initial interrupt and hence the initial
netif_rx_schedule(dev);
- The core layer invokes devices to send packets in a round robin format.
-This implies receive is totaly lockless because of the guarantee only that
+This implies receive is totally lockless because of the guarantee that only
one CPU is executing it.
- contention can only be the result of some other CPU accessing the rx
ring. This happens only in close() and suspend() (when these methods
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ static int my_poll (struct net_device *dev, int *budget)
an interrupt will be generated */
goto done;
}
- /* done! at least thats what it looks like ;->
+ /* done! at least that's what it looks like ;->
if new packets came in after our last check on status bits
they'll be caught by the while check and we go back and clear them
since we havent exceeded our quota */
@@ -678,10 +678,10 @@ routine:
CSR5 bit of interest is only the rx status.
If you look at the last if statement:
you just finished grabbing all the packets from the rx ring .. you check if
-status bit says theres more packets just in ... it says none; you then
+status bit says there are more packets just in ... it says none; you then
enable rx interrupts again; if a new packet just came in during this check,
we are counting that CSR5 will be set in that small window of opportunity
-and that by re-enabling interrupts, we would actually triger an interrupt
+and that by re-enabling interrupts, we would actually trigger an interrupt
to register the new packet for processing.
[The above description nay be very verbose, if you have better wording
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt b/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt
index 64896470e27..e4d2287e0c8 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ c) The driver's hardware probe routine is designed to avoid
with device probing. To avoid this behaviour, add one
to the `io=' module parameter. This doesn't actually change
the I/O address, but it is a flag to tell the driver
- topartially initialise the hardware before trying to
+ to partially initialise the hardware before trying to
identify the card. This could be dangerous if you are
not sure that there is a cs89x0 card at the provided address.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/iphase.txt b/Documentation/networking/iphase.txt
index 493203a080a..55eac4a784e 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/iphase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/iphase.txt
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Installation
1M. The RAM size decides the number of buffers and buffer size. The default
size and number of buffers are set as following:
- Totol Rx RAM Tx RAM Rx Buf Tx Buf Rx buf Tx buf
+ Total Rx RAM Tx RAM Rx Buf Tx Buf Rx buf Tx buf
RAM size size size size size cnt cnt
-------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
128K 64K 64K 10K 10K 6 6
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
index c8eee23be8c..7b358553e8c 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Examples:
there must be no spaces between the
arguments. Leading zeros are required.
Do not set the bottom of stack bit,
- thats done automatically. If you do
+ that's done automatically. If you do
set the bottom of stack bit, that
indicates that you want to randomly
generate that address and the flag
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt b/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt
index 59cb915c371..5e21f7cb638 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ up into 3 parts because of the length of the line):
1000 0 54165785 4 cd1e6040 25 4 27 3 -1
| | | | | | | | | |--> slow start size threshold,
- | | | | | | | | | or -1 if the treshold
+ | | | | | | | | | or -1 if the threshold
| | | | | | | | | is >= 0xFFFF
| | | | | | | | |----> sending congestion window
| | | | | | | |-------> (ack.quick<<1)|ack.pingpong
diff --git a/Documentation/s390/crypto/crypto-API.txt b/Documentation/s390/crypto/crypto-API.txt
index 29dee792c88..41a8b07da05 100644
--- a/Documentation/s390/crypto/crypto-API.txt
+++ b/Documentation/s390/crypto/crypto-API.txt
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ name of the respective module is given in square brackets.
- SHA1 Digest Algorithm [sha1 -> sha1_z990]
- DES Encrypt/Decrypt Algorithm (64bit key) [des -> des_z990]
-- Tripple DES Encrypt/Decrypt Algorithm (128bit key) [des3_ede128 -> des_z990]
-- Tripple DES Encrypt/Decrypt Algorithm (192bit key) [des3_ede -> des_z990]
+- Triple DES Encrypt/Decrypt Algorithm (128bit key) [des3_ede128 -> des_z990]
+- Triple DES Encrypt/Decrypt Algorithm (192bit key) [des3_ede -> des_z990]
In order to load, for example, the sha1_z990 module when the sha1 algorithm is
requested (see 3.2.) add 'alias sha1 sha1_z990' to /etc/modprobe.conf.
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt b/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt
index 904d49e90ef..12310855932 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ The following information is available in this file:
- Correct a reference to free'ed memory during controller
shutdown.
- Reset the bus on an SE->LVD change. This is required
- to reset our transcievers.
+ to reset our transceivers.
1.3.5 (March 24th, 2003)
- Fix a few register window mode bugs.
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt
index c92f4473193..11606ee6138 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ linux-1.1.x and fairly stable since linux-1.2.x, and are also in FreeBSD
the commas to periods, insmod won't interpret this as more than one
string and write junk into our binary image. I consider it a bug in
the insmod program that even if you wrap your string in quotes (quotes
- that pass the shell mind you and that insmod sees) it still treates
+ that pass the shell mind you and that insmod sees) it still treats
a comma inside of those quotes as starting a new variable, resulting
in memory scribbles if you don't switch the commas to periods.
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt b/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt
index 35f6b8ed229..b168743e78e 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt
@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@
completed in such a way, that they are now completely conform to the
demands in the technical description of IBM. Main candidates were the
DEVICE_INQUIRY, REQUEST_SENSE and DEVICE_CAPACITY commands. They must
- be tranferred by bypassing the internal command buffer of the adapter
+ be transferred by bypassing the internal command buffer of the adapter
or else the response can be a random result. GET_POS_INFO would be more
safe in usage, if one could use the SUPRESS_EXCEPTION_SHORT, but this
is not allowed by the technical references of IBM. (Sorry, folks, the
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt b/Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt
index 9e2078b2a61..aa54f54c4a5 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ struct sas_task {
task_proto -- _one_ of enum sas_proto
scatter -- pointer to scatter gather list array
num_scatter -- number of elements in scatter
- total_xfer_len -- total number of bytes expected to be transfered
+ total_xfer_len -- total number of bytes expected to be transferred
data_dir -- PCI_DMA_...
task_done -- callback when the task has finished execution
};
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/st.txt b/Documentation/scsi/st.txt
index 5ff65b18426..3c12422f7f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/st.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/st.txt
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ pairs are separated with a comma (no spaces allowed). A colon can be
used instead of the equal mark. The definition is prepended by the
string st=. Here is an example:
- st=buffer_kbs:64,write_threhold_kbs:60
+ st=buffer_kbs:64,write_threshold_kbs:60
The following syntax used by the old kernel versions is also supported:
diff --git a/Documentation/sharedsubtree.txt b/Documentation/sharedsubtree.txt
index 2d8f403eb6e..ccf1cebe744 100644
--- a/Documentation/sharedsubtree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sharedsubtree.txt
@@ -942,13 +942,13 @@ replicas continue to be exactly same.
->mnt_slave
->mnt_master
- ->mnt_share links togather all the mount to/from which this vfsmount
+ ->mnt_share links together all the mount to/from which this vfsmount
send/receives propagation events.
->mnt_slave_list links all the mounts to which this vfsmount propagates
to.
- ->mnt_slave links togather all the slaves that its master vfsmount
+ ->mnt_slave links together all the slaves that its master vfsmount
propagates to.
->mnt_master points to the master vfsmount from which this vfsmount
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt
index 3472d9c4ef1..9fef210ab50 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt
@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ Prior to version 0.9.0rc4 options had a 'snd_' prefix. This was removed.
dmx6fire, dsp24, dsp24_value, dsp24_71, ez8,
phase88, mediastation
omni - Omni I/O support for MidiMan M-Audio Delta44/66
- cs8427_timeout - reset timeout for the CS8427 chip (S/PDIF transciever)
+ cs8427_timeout - reset timeout for the CS8427 chip (S/PDIF transceiver)
in msec resolution, default value is 500 (0.5 sec)
This module supports multiple cards and autoprobe. Note: The consumer part
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/rio.txt b/Documentation/usb/rio.txt
index ab21db45469..aee715af7db 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/rio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/rio.txt
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ are in no way responsible for any damage that may occur, no matter how
inconsequential.
It seems that the Rio has a problem when sending .mp3 with low batteries.
-I suggest when the batteries are low and want to transfer stuff that you
+I suggest when the batteries are low and you want to transfer stuff that you
replace it with a fresh one. In my case, what happened is I lost two 16kb
blocks (they are no longer usable to store information to it). But I don't
-know if thats normal or not. It could simply be a problem with the flash
+know if that's normal or not; it could simply be a problem with the flash
memory.
In an extreme case, I left my Rio playing overnight and the batteries wore
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt b/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt
index 50436e1663e..a043764c29f 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Keyspan USA-series Serial Adapters
Current status:
The USA-18X, USA-28X, USA-19, USA-19W and USA-49W are supported and
- have been pretty throughly tested at various baud rates with 8-N-1
+ have been pretty thoroughly tested at various baud rates with 8-N-1
character settings. Other character lengths and parity setups are
presently untested.
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ Cypress M8 CY4601 Family Serial Driver
together without hacking the adapter to set the line high.
The driver is smp safe. Performance with the driver is rather low when using
- it for transfering files. This is being worked on, but I would be willing to
+ it for transferring files. This is being worked on, but I would be willing to
accept patches. An urb queue or packet buffer would likely fit the bill here.
If you have any questions, problems, patches, feature requests, etc. you can
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
index 7e8ae83e984..8d16f6f3c4e 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ returned value is the temperature in degrees fahrenheit.
Finally the SETOPTIONS ioctl can be used to control some aspects of
the cards operation; right now the pcwd driver is the only one
-supporting thiss ioctl.
+supporting this ioctl.
int options = 0;
ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, options);