From 1039c6ba670cf45f92af92ce0ed394bd98f5fbfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amerigo Wang Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:03:53 -0400 Subject: fix URL in hpet.txt That URL is out of date. Update it. Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Matt LaPlante Cc: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: WANG Cong Acked-by: Matt LaPlante Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/timers/hpet.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/timers/hpet.txt b/Documentation/timers/hpet.txt index 04763a32552..16d25e6b5a0 100644 --- a/Documentation/timers/hpet.txt +++ b/Documentation/timers/hpet.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ The High Precision Event Timer (HPET) hardware follows a specification by Intel and Microsoft which can be found at - http://www.intel.com/technology/architecture/hpetspec.htm + http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf Each HPET has one fixed-rate counter (at 10+ MHz, hence "High Precision") and up to 32 comparators. Normally three or more comparators are provided, -- cgit v1.2.3 From 7beeec88e5f379680abeb4244b0781e102201c0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 19:23:13 -0700 Subject: docs: fix core_pipe_limit info Fix typos in core_pipe_limit info. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Neil Horman Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index a028b92001e..8f7a0e73ef4 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -139,9 +139,9 @@ core_pattern is used to specify a core dumpfile pattern name. core_pipe_limit: This sysctl is only applicable when core_pattern is configured to pipe core -files to user space helper a (when the first character of core_pattern is a '|', +files to a user space helper (when the first character of core_pattern is a '|', see above). When collecting cores via a pipe to an application, it is -occasionally usefull for the collecting application to gather data about the +occasionally useful for the collecting application to gather data about the crashing process from its /proc/pid directory. In order to do this safely, the kernel must wait for the collecting process to exit, so as not to remove the crashing processes proc files prematurely. This in turn creates the possibility @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ applications in parallel. If this value is exceeded, then those crashing processes above that value are noted via the kernel log and their cores are skipped. 0 is a special value, indicating that unlimited processes may be captured in parallel, but that no waiting will take place (i.e. the collecting -process is not guaranteed access to /proc//). This value defaults +process is not guaranteed access to /proc//). This value defaults to 0. ============================================================== -- cgit v1.2.3 From 0e6779bbcb78b434efdc84fff1809e342684d6b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Bowler Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:12:22 -0400 Subject: docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in oops-tracing.txt If some of the flags are documented there, they all should be. Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index b152e81da59..c10c022b911 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value. 10: 'W' if a warning has previously been issued by the kernel. + 11: 'C' if a staging driver has been loaded. + The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has occurred. Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is -- cgit v1.2.3 From e281d75e21ca4a876044d1dd5fa2f4336c7c43d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Davidlohr Bueso Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:30:34 -0300 Subject: fix typos/grammos in Documentation/edac.txt Trivial patch fixes some typos in the Documentation/edac.txt file. Acked-by: Doug Thompson Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/edac.txt | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/edac.txt b/Documentation/edac.txt index 06f8f46692d..79c53322376 100644 --- a/Documentation/edac.txt +++ b/Documentation/edac.txt @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ is: broken_parity_status -as is located in /sys/devices/pci/0000:XX:YY.Z directorys for +as is located in /sys/devices/pci/0000:XX:YY.Z directories for PCI devices. FUTURE HARDWARE SCANNING @@ -288,9 +288,8 @@ Total UE count that had no information attribute fileY: 'ue_noinfo_count' - This attribute file displays the number of UEs that - have occurred have occurred with no informations as to which DIMM - slot is having errors. + This attribute file displays the number of UEs that have occurred + with no information as to which DIMM slot is having errors. Total Correctable Errors count attribute file: -- cgit v1.2.3 From af901ca181d92aac3a7dc265144a9081a86d8f39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Goddard=20Rosa?= Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:09:05 -0200 Subject: tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping" , "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature" , "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore" , "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others. Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats | 2 +- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block | 2 +- Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl | 2 +- Documentation/DocBook/v4l/videodev2.h.xml | 2 +- Documentation/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl | 2 +- Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb | 2 +- Documentation/lguest/lguest.c | 2 +- Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas | 2 +- Documentation/spi/spi-summary | 2 +- Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 2 +- Documentation/video4linux/gspca.txt | 2 +- Documentation/vm/page-types.c | 2 +- 12 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats b/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats index 99233902e09..f91a973a37f 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Description: 1 - major number 2 - minor mumber 3 - device name - 4 - reads completed succesfully + 4 - reads completed successfully 5 - reads merged 6 - sectors read 7 - time spent reading (ms) diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block index 5f3bedaf8e3..d2f90334bb9 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Contact: Jerome Marchand Description: The /sys/block//stat files displays the I/O statistics of disk . They contain 11 fields: - 1 - reads completed succesfully + 1 - reads completed successfully 2 - reads merged 3 - sectors read 4 - time spent reading (ms) diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl index df0d089d0fb..f508a8a27fe 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ module_exit(board_cleanup); Multiple chip control - The nand driver can control chip arrays. Therefor the + The nand driver can control chip arrays. Therefore the board driver must provide an own select_chip function. This function must (de)select the requested chip. The function pointer in the nand_chip structure must diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/videodev2.h.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/videodev2.h.xml index 97002060ac4..26303e58345 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/videodev2.h.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/videodev2.h.xml @@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ struct v4l2_jpegcompression { * you do, leave them untouched. * Inluding less markers will make the * resulting code smaller, but there will - * be fewer aplications which can read it. + * be fewer applications which can read it. * The presence of the APP and COM marker * is influenced by APP_len and COM_len * ONLY, not by this property! */ diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl index 7a2e0e98986..0d0f7b4d4b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl @@ -5318,7 +5318,7 @@ struct _snd_pcm_runtime { pages of the given size and map them onto the virtually contiguous memory. The virtual pointer is addressed in runtime->dma_area. The physical address (runtime->dma_addr) is set to zero, - because the buffer is physically non-contigous. + because the buffer is physically non-contiguous. The physical address table is set up in sgbuf->table. You can get the physical address at a certain offset via snd_pcm_sgbuf_get_addr(). diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb b/Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb index bf2a9cdfe7b..c8238e44ed6 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb +++ b/Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_USB - moved transfer control (pid filter, fifo control) from usb driver to frontend, it seems better settled there (added xfer_ops-struct) - created a common files for frontends (mc/p/mb) - 2004-09-28 - added support for a new device (Unkown, vendor ID is Hyper-Paltek) + 2004-09-28 - added support for a new device (Unknown, vendor ID is Hyper-Paltek) 2004-09-20 - added support for a new device (Compro DVB-U2000), thanks to Amaury Demol for reporting - changed usb TS transfer method (several urbs, stopping transfer diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c index 098de5bce00..42208511b5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c +++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c @@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ static void *map_zeroed_pages(unsigned int num) addr = mmap(NULL, getpagesize() * num, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0); if (addr == MAP_FAILED) - err(1, "Mmaping %u pages of /dev/zero", num); + err(1, "Mmapping %u pages of /dev/zero", num); /* * One neat mmap feature is that you can close the fd, and it diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas index c851ef49779..84524e0cf9c 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ ii. FW enables WCE bit in Mode Sense cmd for drives that are configured Disks are exposed with WCE=1. User is advised to enable Write Back mode only when the controller has battery backup. At this time Synhronize cache is not supported by the FW. Driver will short-cycle - the cmd and return sucess without sending down to FW. + the cmd and return success without sending down to FW. 1 Release Date : Sun Jan. 14 11:21:32 PDT 2007 - Sumant Patro /Bo Yang diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary index deab51ddc33..4884cb33845 100644 --- a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary +++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary @@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ SPI MESSAGE QUEUE The bulk of the driver will be managing the I/O queue fed by transfer(). That queue could be purely conceptual. For example, a driver used only -for low-frequency sensor acess might be fine using synchronous PIO. +for low-frequency sensor access might be fine using synchronous PIO. But the queue will probably be very real, using message->queue, PIO, often DMA (especially if the root filesystem is in SPI flash), and diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index a6e360d2055..fc5790d36cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ The default is 1 percent. mmap_min_addr This file indicates the amount of address space which a user process will -be restricted from mmaping. Since kernel null dereference bugs could +be restricted from mmapping. Since kernel null dereference bugs could accidentally operate based on the information in the first couple of pages of memory userspace processes should not be allowed to write to them. By default this value is set to 0 and no protections will be enforced by the diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/gspca.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/gspca.txt index 3f61825be49..6b29555b58b 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/gspca.txt +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/gspca.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The modules are: xxxx vend:prod ---- -spca501 0000:0000 MystFromOri Unknow Camera +spca501 0000:0000 MystFromOri Unknown Camera m5602 0402:5602 ALi Video Camera Controller spca501 040a:0002 Kodak DVC-325 spca500 040a:0300 Kodak EZ200 diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page-types.c b/Documentation/vm/page-types.c index 3ec4f2a2258..aa7f4d0639c 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/page-types.c +++ b/Documentation/vm/page-types.c @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static char *page_flag_name(uint64_t flags) present = (flags >> i) & 1; if (!page_flag_names[i]) { if (present) - fatal("unkown flag bit %d\n", i); + fatal("unknown flag bit %d\n", i); continue; } buf[j++] = present ? page_flag_names[i][0] : '_'; -- cgit v1.2.3 From bebd04cc4569844effbdae49c01a48e57fa77864 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:57:24 +0100 Subject: doc: Fix IRQ chip docs This patch updates the IRQ docs to match reality. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl index c671a016809..1448b33fd22 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl @@ -417,8 +417,8 @@ desc->chip->end(); To make use of the split implementation, replace the call to - __do_IRQ by a call to desc->chip->handle_irq() and associate - the appropriate handler function to desc->chip->handle_irq(). + __do_IRQ by a call to desc->handle_irq() and associate + the appropriate handler function to desc->handle_irq(). In most cases the generic handler implementations should be sufficient. -- cgit v1.2.3 From 1b35edaf9ff33ee44db24aa38060061927a89185 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:53:15 +0000 Subject: doc: fix regulator docs cut-and-pasteism Minor copy-and-pasteism in the regulator docs (against git from today): Signed-off-by: Dave Gilbert Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt b/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt index 5f83fd24ea8..cdebb5145c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ to set the limit to 500mA when supplying power. Consumers can control their supply current limit by calling :- -int regulator_set_current_limit(regulator, min_uV, max_uV); +int regulator_set_current_limit(regulator, min_uA, max_uA); Where min_uA and max_uA are the minimum and maximum acceptable current limit in microamps. -- cgit v1.2.3 From e02f0e868a2664c1f5d72cd9a7fc08b4c4309169 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Justin P. Mattock" Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 00:36:35 -0800 Subject: doc: Fix a typo in slub.txt. Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/vm/slub.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt index 510917ff59e..b37300edf27 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ been overwritten. Here a string of 8 characters was written into a slab that has the length of 8 characters. However, a 8 character string needs a terminating 0. That zero has overwritten the first byte of the Redzone field. After reporting the details of the issue encountered the FIX SLUB message -tell us that SLUB has restored the Redzone to its proper value and then +tells us that SLUB has restored the Redzone to its proper value and then system operations continue. Emergency operations: -- cgit v1.2.3