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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-21 08:12:50 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-21 08:12:50 +0400
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina: "It's indeed trivial -- mostly documentation updates and a bunch of typo fixes from Masanari. There are also several linux/version.h include removals from Jesper." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (101 commits) kcore: fix spelling in read_kcore() comment constify struct pci_dev * in obvious cases Revert "char: Fix typo in viotape.c" init: fix wording error in mm_init comment usb: gadget: Kconfig: fix typo for 'different' Revert "power, max8998: Include linux/module.h just once in drivers/power/max8998_charger.c" writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header writeback: fix typo in the writeback_control comment Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU Revert "media: Fix typo in mixer_drv.c and hdmi_drv.c" Doc: Update numastat.txt qla4xxx: Add missing spaces to error messages compiler.h: Fix typo security: struct security_operations kerneldoc fix Documentation: broken URL in libata.tmpl Documentation: broken URL in filesystems.tmpl mtd: simplify return logic in do_map_probe() mm: fix comment typo of truncate_inode_pages_range power: bq27x00: Fix typos in comment ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/00-INDEX4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-module2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/compat.xml4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt18
-rw-r--r--Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/device-mapper/persistent-data.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/omap.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/sirf.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dmaengine.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-uevents.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/network_protocol.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/adm12752
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/max160644
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/max344404
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/max86884
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/ucd90006
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/ucd920010
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/zl61004
-rw-r--r--Documentation/i2o/ioctl12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ide/ChangeLog.ide-cd.1994-20042
-rw-r--r--Documentation/input/alps.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/input/joystick.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/fore200e.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/numastat.txt27
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/scsi-generic.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/tmscsim.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/Smack.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/keys-trusted-encrypted.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/keys.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt2
-rwxr-xr-xDocumentation/target/tcm_mod_builder.py2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/events-power.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/usb/mtouchusb.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/usb/power-management.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/video4linux/uvcvideo.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt2
56 files changed, 114 insertions, 109 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX
index 65bbd2622396..a1a643272883 100644
--- a/Documentation/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ Please try and keep the descriptions small enough to fit on one line.
Following translations are available on the WWW:
- - Japanese, maintained by the JF Project (JF@linux.or.jp), at
- http://www.linux.or.jp/JF/
+ - Japanese, maintained by the JF Project (jf@listserv.linux.or.jp), at
+ http://linuxjf.sourceforge.jp/
00-INDEX
- this file.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill
index 4201d5b05515..ff60ad9eca4c 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Date: 09-Jul-2007
KernelVersion v2.6.22
Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Description: Current state of the transmitter.
- This file is deprecated and sheduled to be removed in 2014,
+ This file is deprecated and scheduled to be removed in 2014,
because its not possible to express the 'soft and hard block'
state of the rfkill driver.
Values: A numeric value.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-module b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-module
index 75be43118335..a0dd21c6db59 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-module
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-module
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Description:
The name of the module that is in the kernel. This
module name will show up either if the module is built
directly into the kernel, or if it is loaded as a
- dyanmic module.
+ dynamic module.
/sys/module/MODULENAME/parameters
This directory contains individual files that are each
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl
index f51f28531b8d..3fca32c41927 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ an example.
<title>See also</title>
<para>
<citation>
- <ulink url="ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/journal-design.ps.gz">
+ <ulink url="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/ext3/journal-design.ps.gz">
Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem, LinuxExpo 98, Stephen Tweedie
</ulink>
</citation>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl
index cdd1bb9aac0d..31df1aa00710 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
<para>
The contents of this file are subject to the Open
Software License version 1.1 that can be found at
- <ulink url="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl-1.1.txt">http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl-1.1.txt</ulink> and is included herein
- by reference.
+ <ulink url="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:OSL1.1">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:OSL1.1</ulink>
+ and is included herein by reference.
</para>
<para>
@@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ and other resources, etc.
<listitem>
<para>
- !BSY &amp;&amp; ERR after CDB tranfer starts but before the
+ !BSY &amp;&amp; ERR after CDB transfer starts but before the
last byte of CDB is transferred. ATA/ATAPI standard states
that &quot;The device shall not terminate the PACKET command
with an error before the last byte of the command packet has
@@ -1050,7 +1050,7 @@ and other resources, etc.
to complete a command. Combined with the fact that MWDMA
and PIO transfer errors aren't allowed to use ICRC bit up to
ATA/ATAPI-7, it seems to imply that ABRT bit alone could
- indicate tranfer errors.
+ indicate transfer errors.
</para>
<para>
However, ATA/ATAPI-8 draft revision 1f removes the part
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/compat.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/compat.xml
index c736380b4647..a2485b3ff3d2 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/compat.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/compat.xml
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ linkend="pixfmt-rgb"><constant>V4L2_PIX_FMT_BGR24</constant></link></para></entr
<entry><para><link
linkend="pixfmt-rgb"><constant>V4L2_PIX_FMT_BGR32</constant></link><footnote>
<para>Presumably all V4L RGB formats are
-little-endian, although some drivers might interpret them according to machine endianess. V4L2 defines little-endian, big-endian and red/blue
+little-endian, although some drivers might interpret them according to machine endianness. V4L2 defines little-endian, big-endian and red/blue
swapped variants. For details see <xref linkend="pixfmt-rgb" />.</para>
</footnote></para></entry>
</row>
@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ standard); 35468950&nbsp;Hz PAL and SECAM (625-line standards)</entry>
<row>
<entry>sample_format</entry>
<entry>V4L2_PIX_FMT_GREY. The last four bytes (a
-machine endianess integer) contain a frame counter.</entry>
+machine endianness integer) contain a frame counter.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>start[]</entry>
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt b/Documentation/arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt
index a17df9f91d16..5673594717cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ inline (either in the code emitted directly by the compiler, or part of
the implementation of a library call) when optimizing for a recent enough
processor that has the necessary native support, but only if resulting
binaries are already to be incompatible with earlier ARM processors due to
-useage of similar native instructions for other things. In other words
+usage of similar native instructions for other things. In other words
don't make binaries unable to run on earlier processors just for the sake
of not using these kernel helpers if your compiled code is not going to
use new instructions for other purpose.
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
index 84f0a15fc210..b4b1fb3a83f0 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
@@ -94,11 +94,11 @@ Throttling/Upper Limit policy
Hierarchical Cgroups
====================
-- Currently none of the IO control policy supports hierarhical groups. But
- cgroup interface does allow creation of hierarhical cgroups and internally
+- Currently none of the IO control policy supports hierarchical groups. But
+ cgroup interface does allow creation of hierarchical cgroups and internally
IO policies treat them as flat hierarchy.
- So this patch will allow creation of cgroup hierarhcy but at the backend
+ So this patch will allow creation of cgroup hierarchcy but at the backend
everything will be treated as flat. So if somebody created a hierarchy like
as follows.
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ Proportional weight policy files
- blkio.idle_time
- Debugging aid only enabled if CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP=y.
This is the amount of time spent by the IO scheduler idling for a
- given cgroup in anticipation of a better request than the exising ones
+ given cgroup in anticipation of a better request than the existing ones
from other queues/cgroups. This is in nanoseconds. If this is read
when the cgroup is in an idling state, the stat will only report the
idle_time accumulated till the last idle period and will not include
@@ -283,34 +283,34 @@ Throttling/Upper limit policy files
-----------------------------------
- blkio.throttle.read_bps_device
- Specifies upper limit on READ rate from the device. IO rate is
- specified in bytes per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is
+ specified in bytes per second. Rules are per device. Following is
the format.
echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_bytes_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device
- blkio.throttle.write_bps_device
- Specifies upper limit on WRITE rate to the device. IO rate is
- specified in bytes per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is
+ specified in bytes per second. Rules are per device. Following is
the format.
echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_bytes_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.write_bps_device
- blkio.throttle.read_iops_device
- Specifies upper limit on READ rate from the device. IO rate is
- specified in IO per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is
+ specified in IO per second. Rules are per device. Following is
the format.
echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_io_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.read_iops_device
- blkio.throttle.write_iops_device
- Specifies upper limit on WRITE rate to the device. IO rate is
- specified in io per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is
+ specified in io per second. Rules are per device. Following is
the format.
echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_io_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.write_iops_device
Note: If both BW and IOPS rules are specified for a device, then IO is
- subjectd to both the constraints.
+ subjected to both the constraints.
- blkio.throttle.io_serviced
- Number of IOs (bio) completed to/from the disk by the group (as
diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt
index 2a8c11331d2d..946c73342cde 100644
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ The target is named "raid" and it accepts the following parameters:
raid6_nc RAID6 N continue
- rotating parity N (right-to-left) with data continuation
- Refererence: Chapter 4 of
+ Reference: Chapter 4 of
http://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/SNIA_DDF_Technical_Position_v2.0.pdf
<#raid_params>: The number of parameters that follow.
diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/persistent-data.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/persistent-data.txt
index 0e5df9b04ad2..a333bcb3a6c2 100644
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/persistent-data.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/persistent-data.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Introduction
The more-sophisticated device-mapper targets require complex metadata
that is managed in kernel. In late 2010 we were seeing that various
-different targets were rolling their own data strutures, for example:
+different targets were rolling their own data structures, for example:
- Mikulas Patocka's multisnap implementation
- Heinz Mauelshagen's thin provisioning target
diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt
index 801d9d1cf82b..1ff044d87ca4 100644
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Introduction
============
-This document descibes a collection of device-mapper targets that
+This document describes a collection of device-mapper targets that
between them implement thin-provisioning and snapshots.
The main highlight of this implementation, compared to the previous
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/omap.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/omap.txt
index dbdab40ed3a6..edc618a8aab2 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/omap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/omap.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ IPs present in the SoC.
On top of that an omap_device is created to extend the platform_device
capabilities and to allow binding with one or several hwmods.
The hwmods will contain all the information to build the device:
-adresse range, irq lines, dma lines, interconnect, PRCM register,
+address range, irq lines, dma lines, interconnect, PRCM register,
clock domain, input clocks.
For the moment just point to the existing hwmod, the next step will be
to move data from hwmod to device-tree representation.
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/sirf.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/sirf.txt
index 6b07f65b32de..1881e1c6dda5 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/sirf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/sirf.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-prima2 "cb" evalutation board
+prima2 "cb" evaluation board
Required root node properties:
- compatible = "sirf,prima2-cb", "sirf,prima2";
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt
index 7c1329de0596..da0bfeb4253d 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ it with special cases.
b) Entry with a flattened device-tree block. Firmware loads the
physical address of the flattened device tree block (dtb) into r2,
- r1 is not used, but it is considered good practise to use a valid
+ r1 is not used, but it is considered good practice to use a valid
machine number as described in Documentation/arm/Booting.
r0 : 0
diff --git a/Documentation/dmaengine.txt b/Documentation/dmaengine.txt
index bbe6cb3d1856..879b6e31e2da 100644
--- a/Documentation/dmaengine.txt
+++ b/Documentation/dmaengine.txt
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ The slave DMA usage consists of following steps:
struct dma_slave_config *config)
Please see the dma_slave_config structure definition in dmaengine.h
- for a detailed explaination of the struct members. Please note
+ for a detailed explanation of the struct members. Please note
that the 'direction' member will be going away as it duplicates the
direction given in the prepare call.
diff --git a/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt b/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt
index e5ce8a1a978b..b95f5bb522f2 100644
--- a/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt
@@ -177,8 +177,8 @@ sgram - tells to driver that you have Gxx0 with SGRAM memory. It has no
effect without `init'.
sdram - tells to driver that you have Gxx0 with SDRAM memory.
It is a default.
-inv24 - change timings parameters for 24bpp modes on Millenium and
- Millenium II. Specify this if you see strange color shadows around
+inv24 - change timings parameters for 24bpp modes on Millennium and
+ Millennium II. Specify this if you see strange color shadows around
characters.
noinv24 - use standard timings. It is the default.
inverse - invert colors on screen (for LCD displays)
@@ -204,9 +204,9 @@ grayscale - enable grayscale summing. It works in PSEUDOCOLOR modes (text,
can paint colors.
nograyscale - disable grayscale summing. It is default.
cross4MB - enables that pixel line can cross 4MB boundary. It is default for
- non-Millenium.
+ non-Millennium.
nocross4MB - pixel line must not cross 4MB boundary. It is default for
- Millenium I or II, because of these devices have hardware
+ Millennium I or II, because of these devices have hardware
limitations which do not allow this. But this option is
incompatible with some (if not all yet released) versions of
XF86_FBDev.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
index 10ec4639f152..8c10bf375c73 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ min_batch_time=usec This parameter sets the commit time (as
fast disks, at the cost of increasing latency.
journal_ioprio=prio The I/O priority (from 0 to 7, where 0 is the
- highest priorty) which should be used for I/O
+ highest priority) which should be used for I/O
operations submitted by kjournald2 during a
commit operation. This defaults to 3, which is
a slightly higher priority than the default I/O
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ noinit_itable Do not initialize any uninitialized inode table
init_itable=n The lazy itable init code will wait n times the
number of milliseconds it took to zero out the
previous block group's inode table. This
- minimizes the impact on the systme performance
+ minimizes the impact on the system performance
while file system's inode table is being initialized.
discard Controls whether ext4 should issue discard/TRIM
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-uevents.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-uevents.txt
index d81889669293..19a19ebebc34 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-uevents.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-uevents.txt
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ be fixed.
The REMOVE uevent is generated at the end of an unsuccessful mount
or at the end of a umount of the filesystem. All REMOVE uevents will
-have been preceded by at least an ADD uevent for the same fileystem,
+have been preceded by at least an ADD uevent for the same filesystem,
and unlike the other uevents is generated automatically by the kernel's
kobject subsystem.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/network_protocol.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/network_protocol.txt
index 65e03dd44823..c680b4b5353d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/network_protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/network_protocol.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Commands can be embedded into transaction command (which in turn has own command
so one can extend protocol as needed without breaking backward compatibility as long
as old commands are supported. All string lengths include tail 0 byte.
-All commands are transferred over the network in big-endian. CPU endianess is used at the end peers.
+All commands are transferred over the network in big-endian. CPU endianness is used at the end peers.
@cmd - command number, which specifies command to be processed. Following
commands are used currently:
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
index a8273d5fad20..59b4a0962e0f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ the above threads) is:
either way about the archive format, and there are alternative tools,
such as:
- http://freshmeat.net/projects/afio/
+ http://freecode.com/projects/afio
2) The cpio archive format chosen by the kernel is simpler and cleaner (and
thus easier to create and parse) than any of the (literally dozens of)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 3d9393b845b8..e916e3d36488 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -993,7 +993,7 @@ struct dentry_operations {
If the 'rcu_walk' parameter is true, then the caller is doing a
pathwalk in RCU-walk mode. Sleeping is not permitted in this mode,
- and the caller can be asked to leave it and call again by returing
+ and the caller can be asked to leave it and call again by returning
-ECHILD.
This function is only used if DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT is set on the
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/adm1275 b/Documentation/hwmon/adm1275
index ab70d96d2dfd..e5f982c845fd 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/adm1275
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/adm1275
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ attributes are write-only, all other attributes are read-only.
in1_label "vin1" or "vout1" depending on chip variant and
configuration.
in1_input Measured voltage.
-in1_min Minumum Voltage.
+in1_min Minimum Voltage.
in1_max Maximum voltage.
in1_min_alarm Voltage low alarm.
in1_max_alarm Voltage high alarm.
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/max16064 b/Documentation/hwmon/max16064
index f6e8bcbfaccf..f8b478076f6d 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/max16064
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/max16064
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ attributes are read-only.
in[1-4]_label "vout[1-4]"
in[1-4]_input Measured voltage. From READ_VOUT register.
-in[1-4]_min Minumum Voltage. From VOUT_UV_WARN_LIMIT register.
+in[1-4]_min Minimum Voltage. From VOUT_UV_WARN_LIMIT register.
in[1-4]_max Maximum voltage. From VOUT_OV_WARN_LIMIT register.
-in[1-4]_lcrit Critical minumum Voltage. VOUT_UV_FAULT_LIMIT register.
+in[1-4]_lcrit Critical minimum Voltage. VOUT_UV_FAULT_LIMIT register.
in[1-4]_crit Critical maximum voltage. From VOUT_OV_FAULT_LIMIT register.
in[1-4]_min_alarm Voltage low alarm. From VOLTAGE_UV_WARNING status.
in[1-4]_max_alarm Voltage high alarm. From VOLTAGE_OV_WARNING status.
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/max34440 b/Documentation/hwmon/max34440
index 8ab51536a1eb..19743919ea56 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/max34440
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/max34440
@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ attributes are read-only.
in[1-6]_label "vout[1-6]".
in[1-6]_input Measured voltage. From READ_VOUT register.
-in[1-6]_min Minumum Voltage. From VOUT_UV_WARN_LIMIT register.
+in[1-6]_min Minimum Voltage. From VOUT_UV_WARN_LIMIT register.
in[1-6]_max Maximum voltage. From VOUT_OV_WARN_LIMIT register.
-in[1-6]_lcrit Critical minumum Voltage. VOUT_UV_FAULT_LIMIT register.
+in[1-6]_lcrit Critical minimum Voltage. VOUT_UV_FAULT_LIMIT register.
in[1-6]_crit Critical maximum voltage. From VOUT_OV_FAULT_LIMIT register.
in[1-6]_min_alarm Voltage low alarm. From VOLTAGE_UV_WARNING status.
in[1-6]_max_alarm Voltage high alarm. From VOLTAGE_OV_WARNING status.
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/max8688 b/Documentation/hwmon/max8688
index 71ed10a3c94e..fe849871df32 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/max8688
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/max8688
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ attributes are read-only.
in1_label "vout1"
in1_input Measured voltage. From READ_VOUT register.
-in1_min Minumum Voltage. From VOUT_UV_WARN_LIMIT register.
+in1_min Minimum Voltage. From VOUT_UV_WARN_LIMIT register.
in1_max Maximum voltage. From VOUT_OV_WARN_LIMIT register.
-in1_lcrit Critical minumum Voltage. VOUT_UV_FAULT_LIMIT register.
+in1_lcrit Critical minimum Voltage. VOUT_UV_FAULT_LIMIT register.
in1_crit Critical maximum voltage. From VOUT_OV_FAULT_LIMIT register.
in1_min_alarm Voltage low alarm. From VOLTAGE_UV_WARNING status.
in1_max_alarm Voltage high alarm. From VOLTAGE_OV_WARNING status.
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/ucd9000 b/Documentation/hwmon/ucd9000
index 40ca6db50c48..0df5f276505b 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/ucd9000
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/ucd9000
@@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ attributes are read-only.
in[1-12]_label "vout[1-12]".
in[1-12]_input Measured voltage. From READ_VOUT register.
-in[1-12]_min Minumum Voltage. From VOUT_UV_WARN_LIMIT register.
+in[1-12]_min Minimum Voltage. From VOUT_UV_WARN_LIMIT register.
in[1-12]_max Maximum voltage. From VOUT_OV_WARN_LIMIT register.
-in[1-12]_lcrit Critical minumum Voltage. VOUT_UV_FAULT_LIMIT register.
+in[1-12]_lcrit Critical minimum Voltage. VOUT_UV_FAULT_LIMIT register.
in[1-12]_crit Critical maximum voltage. From VOUT_OV_FAULT_LIMIT register.
in[1-12]_min_alarm Voltage low alarm. From VOLTAGE_UV_WARNING status.
in[1-12]_max_alarm Voltage high alarm. From VOLTAGE_OV_WARNING status.
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ in[1-12]_crit_alarm Voltage critical high alarm. From VOLTAGE_OV_FAULT status.
curr[1-12]_label "iout[1-12]".
curr[1-12]_input Measured current. From READ_IOUT register.
curr[1-12]_max Maximum current. From IOUT_OC_WARN_LIMIT register.
-curr[1-12]_lcrit Critical minumum output current. From IOUT_UC_FAULT_LIMIT
+curr[1-12]_lcrit Critical minimum output current. From IOUT_UC_FAULT_LIMIT
register.
curr[1-12]_crit Critical maximum current. From IOUT_OC_FAULT_LIMIT register.
curr[1-12]_max_alarm Current high alarm. From IOUT_OC_WARNING status.
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/ucd9200 b/Documentation/hwmon/ucd9200
index 3c58607f72fe..fd7d07b1908a 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/ucd9200
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/ucd9200
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ attributes are read-only.
in1_label "vin".
in1_input Measured voltage. From READ_VIN register.
-in1_min Minumum Voltage. From VIN_UV_WARN_LIMIT register.
+in1_min Minimum Voltage. From VIN_UV_WARN_LIMIT register.
in1_max Maximum voltage. From VIN_OV_WARN_LIMIT register.
-in1_lcrit Critical minumum Voltage. VIN_UV_FAULT_LIMIT register.
+in1_lcrit Critical minimum Voltage. VIN_UV_FAULT_LIMIT register.
in1_crit Critical maximum voltage. From VIN_OV_FAULT_LIMIT register.
in1_min_alarm Voltage low alarm. From VIN_UV_WARNING status.
in1_max_alarm Voltage high alarm. From VIN_OV_WARNING status.
@@ -65,9 +65,9 @@ in1_crit_alarm Voltage critical high alarm. From VIN_OV_FAULT status.
in[2-5]_label "vout[1-4]".
in[2-5]_input Measured voltage. From READ_VOUT register.
-in[2-5]_min Minumum Voltage. From VOUT_UV_WARN_LIMIT register.
+in[2-5]_min Minimum Voltage. From VOUT_UV_WARN_LIMIT register.
in[2-5]_max Maximum voltage. From VOUT_OV_WARN_LIMIT register.
-in[2-5]_lcrit Critical minumum Voltage. VOUT_UV_FAULT_LIMIT register.
+in[2-5]_lcrit Critical minimum Voltage. VOUT_UV_FAULT_LIMIT register.
in[2-5]_crit Critical maximum voltage. From VOUT_OV_FAULT_LIMIT register.
in[2-5]_min_alarm Voltage low alarm. From VOLTAGE_UV_WARNING status.
in[2-5]_max_alarm Voltage high alarm. From VOLTAGE_OV_WARNING status.
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ curr1_input Measured current. From READ_IIN register.
curr[2-5]_label "iout[1-4]".
curr[2-5]_input Measured current. From READ_IOUT register.
curr[2-5]_max Maximum current. From IOUT_OC_WARN_LIMIT register.
-curr[2-5]_lcrit Critical minumum output current. From IOUT_UC_FAULT_LIMIT
+curr[2-5]_lcrit Critical minimum output current. From IOUT_UC_FAULT_LIMIT
register.
curr[2-5]_crit Critical maximum current. From IOUT_OC_FAULT_LIMIT register.
curr[2-5]_max_alarm Current high alarm. From IOUT_OC_WARNING status.
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/zl6100 b/Documentation/hwmon/zl6100
index a4e8d90f59f6..98ebacbdd8d9 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/zl6100
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/zl6100
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ in1_label "vin"
in1_input Measured input voltage.
in1_min Minimum input voltage.
in1_max Maximum input voltage.
-in1_lcrit Critical minumum input voltage.
+in1_lcrit Critical minimum input voltage.
in1_crit Critical maximum input voltage.
in1_min_alarm Input voltage low alarm.
in1_max_alarm Input voltage high alarm.
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ in1_crit_alarm Input voltage critical high alarm.
in2_label "vout1"
in2_input Measured output voltage.
-in2_lcrit Critical minumum output Voltage.
+in2_lcrit Critical minimum output Voltage.
in2_crit Critical maximum output voltage.
in2_lcrit_alarm Critical output voltage critical low alarm.
in2_crit_alarm Critical output voltage critical high alarm.
diff --git a/Documentation/i2o/ioctl b/Documentation/i2o/ioctl
index 22ca53a67e23..27c3c5493116 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2o/ioctl
+++ b/Documentation/i2o/ioctl
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ VI. Setting Parameters
The return value is the size in bytes of the data written into
ops->resbuf if no errors occur. If an error occurs, -1 is returned
- and errno is set appropriatly:
+ and errno is set appropriately:
EFAULT Invalid user space pointer was passed
ENXIO Invalid IOP number
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ VIII. Downloading Software
RETURNS
This function returns 0 no errors occur. If an error occurs, -1
- is returned and errno is set appropriatly:
+ is returned and errno is set appropriately:
EFAULT Invalid user space pointer was passed
ENXIO Invalid IOP number
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ IX. Uploading Software
RETURNS
This function returns 0 if no errors occur. If an error occurs, -1
- is returned and errno is set appropriatly:
+ is returned and errno is set appropriately:
EFAULT Invalid user space pointer was passed
ENXIO Invalid IOP number
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ X. Removing Software
RETURNS
This function returns 0 if no errors occur. If an error occurs, -1
- is returned and errno is set appropriatly:
+ is returned and errno is set appropriately:
EFAULT Invalid user space pointer was passed
ENXIO Invalid IOP number
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ X. Validating Configuration
RETURNS
This function returns 0 if no erro occur. If an error occurs, -1 is
- returned and errno is set appropriatly:
+ returned and errno is set appropriately:
ETIMEDOUT Timeout waiting for reply message
ENXIO Invalid IOP number
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ XI. Configuration Dialog
RETURNS
This function returns 0 if no error occur. If an error occurs, -1
- is returned and errno is set appropriatly:
+ is returned and errno is set appropriately:
EFAULT Invalid user space pointer was passed
ENXIO Invalid IOP number
diff --git a/Documentation/ide/ChangeLog.ide-cd.1994-2004 b/Documentation/ide/ChangeLog.ide-cd.1994-2004
index 190d17bfff62..4cc3ad99f39b 100644
--- a/Documentation/ide/ChangeLog.ide-cd.1994-2004
+++ b/Documentation/ide/ChangeLog.ide-cd.1994-2004
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
* since the .pdf version doesn't seem to work...
* -- Updated the TODO list to something more current.
*
- * 4.15 Aug 25, 1998 -- Updated ide-cd.h to respect mechine endianess,
+ * 4.15 Aug 25, 1998 -- Updated ide-cd.h to respect machine endianness,
* patch thanks to "Eddie C. Dost" <ecd@skynet.be>
*
* 4.50 Oct 19, 1998 -- New maintainers!
diff --git a/Documentation/input/alps.txt b/Documentation/input/alps.txt
index 2f95308251d4..ae8ba9a74ce1 100644
--- a/Documentation/input/alps.txt
+++ b/Documentation/input/alps.txt
@@ -132,8 +132,8 @@ number of contacts (f1 and f0 in the table below).
byte 5: 0 1 ? ? ? ? f1 f0
This packet only appears after a position packet with the mt bit set, and
-ususally only appears when there are two or more contacts (although
-ocassionally it's seen with only a single contact).
+usually only appears when there are two or more contacts (although
+occassionally it's seen with only a single contact).
The final v3 packet type is the trackstick packet.
diff --git a/Documentation/input/joystick.txt b/Documentation/input/joystick.txt
index 8007b7ca87bf..304262bb661a 100644
--- a/Documentation/input/joystick.txt
+++ b/Documentation/input/joystick.txt
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ the USB documentation for how to setup an USB mouse.
The TM DirectConnect (BSP) protocol is supported by the tmdc.c
module. This includes, but is not limited to:
-* ThrustMaster Millenium 3D Inceptor
+* ThrustMaster Millennium 3D Interceptor
* ThrustMaster 3D Rage Pad
* ThrustMaster Fusion Digital Game Pad
diff --git a/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt b/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt
index 91a6ecbae0bb..18eb98c44ffe 100644
--- a/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE execute raw taskfile
if CHS/LBA28
The association between in_flags.all and each enable
- bitfield flips depending on endianess; fortunately, TASKFILE
+ bitfield flips depending on endianness; fortunately, TASKFILE
only uses inflags.b.data bit and ignores all other bits.
The end result is that, on any endian machines, it has no
effect other than modifying in_flags on completion.
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE execute raw taskfile
[6] Do not access {in|out}_flags->all except for resetting
all the bits. Always access individual bit fields. ->all
- value will flip depending on endianess. For the same
+ value will flip depending on endianness. For the same
reason, do not use IDE_{TASKFILE|HOB}_STD_{OUT|IN}_FLAGS
constants defined in hdreg.h.
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
index 44e2649fbb29..a686f9cd69c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax).
This attribute is only applicable to menu blocks, if the condition is
false, the menu block is not displayed to the user (the symbols
contained there can still be selected by other symbols, though). It is
- similar to a conditional "prompt" attribude for individual menu
+ similar to a conditional "prompt" attribute for individual menu
entries. Default value of "visible" is true.
- numerical ranges: "range" <symbol> <symbol> ["if" <expr>]
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index d99fd9c0ec0e..8cadb7551fca 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
controller
i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
controllers
- i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by conroller
+ i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
@@ -2440,7 +2440,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
- Determines the mininum page order for slabs. Must be
+ Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
lower than slub_max_order.
For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
@@ -2606,7 +2606,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
threadirqs [KNL]
Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
- marked explicitely IRQF_NO_THREAD.
+ marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
topology= [S390]
Format: {off | on}
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/fore200e.txt b/Documentation/networking/fore200e.txt
index 6e0d2a9613ec..f648eb265188 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/fore200e.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/fore200e.txt
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ the 'software updates' pages. The firmware binaries are part of
the various ForeThought software distributions.
Notice that different versions of the PCA-200E firmware exist, depending
-on the endianess of the host architecture. The driver is shipped with
+on the endianness of the host architecture. The driver is shipped with
both little and big endian PCA firmware images.
Name and location of the new firmware images can be set at kernel
diff --git a/Documentation/numastat.txt b/Documentation/numastat.txt
index 9fcc9a608dc0..520327790d54 100644
--- a/Documentation/numastat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/numastat.txt
@@ -5,18 +5,23 @@ Numa policy hit/miss statistics
All units are pages. Hugepages have separate counters.
-numa_hit A process wanted to allocate memory from this node,
- and succeeded.
-numa_miss A process wanted to allocate memory from another node,
- but ended up with memory from this node.
-numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on this node,
- but ended up with memory from another one.
-local_node A process ran on this node and got memory from it.
-other_node A process ran on this node and got memory from another node.
-interleave_hit Interleaving wanted to allocate from this node
- and succeeded.
+numa_hit A process wanted to allocate memory from this node,
+ and succeeded.
+
+numa_miss A process wanted to allocate memory from another node,
+ but ended up with memory from this node.
+
+numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on this node,
+ but ended up with memory from another one.
+
+local_node A process ran on this node and got memory from it.
+
+other_node A process ran on this node and got memory from another node.
+
+interleave_hit Interleaving wanted to allocate from this node
+ and succeeded.
For easier reading you can use the numastat utility from the numactl package
-(ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ak/numa/numactl*). Note that it only works
+(http://oss.sgi.com/projects/libnuma/). Note that it only works
well right now on machines with a small number of CPUs.
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc
index c56ec99d7b2f..2f6d595f95e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc
@@ -1718,7 +1718,7 @@ Changes from 20040319 to 20040326
* lpfc_els_timeout_handler() now uses system timer.
* Further cleanup of #ifdef powerpc
* lpfc_scsi_timeout_handler() now uses system timer.
- * Replace common driver's own defines for endianess w/ Linux's
+ * Replace common driver's own defines for endianness w/ Linux's
__BIG_ENDIAN etc.
* Added #ifdef IPFC for all IPFC specific code.
* lpfc_disc_retry_rptlun() now uses system timer.
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas
index 57566bacb4c5..83f8ea8b79eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ i. Support for 1078 type (ppc IOP) controller, device id : 0x60 added.
3 Older Version : 00.00.02.02
i. Register 16 byte CDB capability with scsi midlayer
- "Ths patch properly registers the 16 byte command length capability of the
+ "This patch properly registers the 16 byte command length capability of the
megaraid_sas controlled hardware with the scsi midlayer. All megaraid_sas
hardware supports 16 byte CDB's."
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi-generic.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-generic.txt
index 0a22ab8ea0c1..51be20a6a14d 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi-generic.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-generic.txt
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ There are two packages of sg utilities:
and earlier
Both packages will work in the lk 2.4 series however sg3_utils offers more
capabilities. They can be found at: http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html and
-freshmeat.net
+freecode.com
Another approach is to look at the applications that use the sg driver.
These include cdrecord, cdparanoia, SANE and cdrdao.
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/tmscsim.txt b/Documentation/scsi/tmscsim.txt
index 61c0531e044a..3303d218b32e 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/tmscsim.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/tmscsim.txt
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ So take at least the following measures:
ftp://student.physik.uni-dortmund.de/pub/linux/kernel/bootdisk.gz
One more warning: I used to overclock my PCI bus to 41.67 MHz. My Tekram
-DC390F (Sym53c875) accepted this as well as my Millenium. But the Am53C974
+DC390F (Sym53c875) accepted this as well as my Millennium. But the Am53C974
produced errors and started to corrupt my disks. So don't do that! A 37.50
MHz PCI bus works for me, though, but I don't recommend using higher clocks
than the 33.33 MHz being in the PCI spec.
diff --git a/Documentation/security/Smack.txt b/Documentation/security/Smack.txt
index e9dab41c0fe0..d2f72ae66432 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/Smack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/security/Smack.txt
@@ -536,6 +536,6 @@ writing a single character to the /smack/logging file :
3 : log denied & accepted
Events are logged as 'key=value' pairs, for each event you at least will get
-the subjet, the object, the rights requested, the action, the kernel function
+the subject, the object, the rights requested, the action, the kernel function
that triggered the event, plus other pairs depending on the type of event
audited.
diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys-trusted-encrypted.txt b/Documentation/security/keys-trusted-encrypted.txt
index c9e4855ed3d7..e105ae97a4f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/keys-trusted-encrypted.txt
+++ b/Documentation/security/keys-trusted-encrypted.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Trusted and Encrypted Keys
Trusted and Encrypted Keys are two new key types added to the existing kernel
-key ring service. Both of these new types are variable length symmetic keys,
+key ring service. Both of these new types are variable length symmetric keys,
and in both cases all keys are created in the kernel, and user space sees,
stores, and loads only encrypted blobs. Trusted Keys require the availability
of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip for greater security, while Encrypted
diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys.txt b/Documentation/security/keys.txt
index 4d75931d2d79..fcbe7a703405 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/keys.txt
+++ b/Documentation/security/keys.txt
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are:
If the kernel calls back to userspace to complete the instantiation of a
key, userspace should use this call mark the key as negative before the
- invoked process returns if it is unable to fulfil the request.
+ invoked process returns if it is unable to fulfill the request.
The process must have write access on the key to be able to instantiate
it, and the key must be uninstantiated.
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt
index 936699e4f04b..12e3a0fb9bec 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt
@@ -1588,7 +1588,7 @@ Prior to version 0.9.0rc4 options had a 'snd_' prefix. This was removed.
Module supports autoprobe a chip.
- Note: the driver may have problems regarding endianess.
+ Note: the driver may have problems regarding endianness.
The power-management is supported.
diff --git a/Documentation/target/tcm_mod_builder.py b/Documentation/target/tcm_mod_builder.py
index 6e21b8b52638..a78879b01f09 100755
--- a/Documentation/target/tcm_mod_builder.py
+++ b/Documentation/target/tcm_mod_builder.py
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ def tcm_mod_dump_fabric_ops(proto_ident, fabric_mod_dir_var, fabric_mod_name):
buf += " struct " + fabric_mod_name + "_nacl *nacl;\n\n"
buf += " nacl = kzalloc(sizeof(struct " + fabric_mod_name + "_nacl), GFP_KERNEL);\n"
buf += " if (!nacl) {\n"
- buf += " printk(KERN_ERR \"Unable to alocate struct " + fabric_mod_name + "_nacl\\n\");\n"
+ buf += " printk(KERN_ERR \"Unable to allocate struct " + fabric_mod_name + "_nacl\\n\");\n"
buf += " return NULL;\n"
buf += " }\n\n"
buf += " return &nacl->se_node_acl;\n"
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events-power.txt b/Documentation/trace/events-power.txt
index 96d87b67fe37..cf794af22855 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/events-power.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/events-power.txt
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ power_end "cpu_id=%lu"
The 'type' parameter takes one of those macros:
. POWER_NONE = 0,
. POWER_CSTATE = 1, /* C-State */
- . POWER_PSTATE = 2, /* Fequency change or DVFS */
+ . POWER_PSTATE = 2, /* Frequency change or DVFS */
The 'state' parameter is set depending on the type:
. Target C-state for type=POWER_CSTATE,
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/mtouchusb.txt b/Documentation/usb/mtouchusb.txt
index 86302cd53ed3..a91adb26ea7b 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/mtouchusb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/mtouchusb.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
CHANGES
- 0.3 - Created based off of scanner & INSTALL from the original touchscreen
- driver on freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/projects/3mtouchscreendriver)
+ driver on freecode (http://freecode.com/projects/3mtouchscreendriver)
- Amended for linux-2.4.18, then 2.4.19
- 0.5 - Complete rewrite using Linux Input in 2.6.3
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt b/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt
index 12511c98cc4f..817df299ea07 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ autosuspend the device.
Drivers need not be concerned about balancing changes to the usage
counter; the USB core will undo any remaining "get"s when a driver
is unbound from its interface. As a corollary, drivers must not call
-any of the usb_autopm_* functions after their diconnect() routine has
+any of the usb_autopm_* functions after their disconnect() routine has
returned.
Drivers using the async routines are responsible for their own
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt b/Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt
index afe596d5f201..c9c3f0f5ad7b 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ The usbfs filesystem for USB devices is traditionally mounted at
/proc/bus/usb. It provides the /proc/bus/usb/devices file, as well as
the /proc/bus/usb/BBB/DDD files.
-In many modern systems the usbfs filsystem isn't used at all. Instead
+In many modern systems the usbfs filesystem isn't used at all. Instead
USB device nodes are created under /dev/usb/ or someplace similar. The
"devices" file is available in debugfs, typically as
/sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices.
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/uvcvideo.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/uvcvideo.txt
index 848d620dcc5c..35ce19cddcf8 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/uvcvideo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/uvcvideo.txt
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Description:
A UVC control can be mapped to several V4L2 controls. For instance,
a UVC pan/tilt control could be mapped to separate pan and tilt V4L2
controls. The UVC control is divided into non overlapping fields using
- the 'size' and 'offset' fields and are then independantly mapped to
+ the 'size' and 'offset' fields and are then independently mapped to
V4L2 control.
For signed integer V4L2 controls the data_type field should be set to
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
index 5dc972c09b55..fa5f1dbc6b23 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ To instantiate a large spte, four constraints must be satisfied:
- the spte must point to a large host page
- the guest pte must be a large pte of at least equivalent size (if tdp is
- enabled, there is no guest pte and this condition is satisified)
+ enabled, there is no guest pte and this condition is satisfied)
- if the spte will be writeable, the large page frame may not overlap any
write-protected pages
- the guest page must be wholly contained by a single memory slot
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ To check the last two conditions, the mmu maintains a ->write_count set of
arrays for each memory slot and large page size. Every write protected page
causes its write_count to be incremented, thus preventing instantiation of
a large spte. The frames at the end of an unaligned memory slot have
-artificically inflated ->write_counts so they can never be instantiated.
+artificially inflated ->write_counts so they can never be instantiated.
Further reading
===============
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt b/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt
index a350ae135b8c..da094737e2f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt
@@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ segmentation, if both guests are amenable.
Packets are transmitted by placing them in the transmitq, and
buffers for incoming packets are placed in the receiveq. In each
-case, the packet itself is preceeded by a header:
+case, the packet itself is preceded by a header:
struct virtio_net_hdr {
@@ -1642,7 +1642,7 @@ struct virtio_net_ctrl_mac {
The device can filter incoming packets by any number of
destination MAC addresses.[footnote:
-Since there are no guarentees, it can use a hash filter
+Since there are no guarantees, it can use a hash filter
orsilently switch to allmulti or promiscuous mode if it is given
too many addresses.
] This table is set using the class VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MAC and the
@@ -1805,7 +1805,7 @@ the FLUSH and FLUSH_OUT types are equivalent, the device does not
distinguish between them
]). If the device has VIRTIO_BLK_F_BARRIER feature the high bit
(VIRTIO_BLK_T_BARRIER) indicates that this request acts as a
-barrier and that all preceeding requests must be complete before
+barrier and that all preceding requests must be complete before
this one, and all following requests must not be started until
this is complete. Note that a barrier does not flush caches in
the underlying backend device in host, and thus does not serve as
@@ -2118,7 +2118,7 @@ This is historical, and independent of the guest page size
Otherwise, the guest may begin to re-use pages previously given
to the balloon before the device has acknowledged their
- withdrawl. [footnote:
+ withdrawal. [footnote:
In this case, deflation advice is merely a courtesy
]
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt b/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt
index 36c367c73084..d5c615af10ba 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ failed_gets - number of gets that failed
puts - number of puts attempted (all "succeed")
flushes - number of flushes attempted
-A backend implementatation may provide additional metrics.
+A backend implementation may provide additional metrics.
FAQ
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt b/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt
index 97bae3c576c2..fa206cccf89f 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ different reverse map mechanisms.
process because mlocked pages are migratable. However, for reclaim, if
the page is mapped into a VM_LOCKED VMA, the scan stops.
- try_to_unmap_anon() attempts to acquire in read mode the mmap semphore of
+ try_to_unmap_anon() attempts to acquire in read mode the mmap semaphore of
the mm_struct to which the VMA belongs. If this is successful, it will
mlock the page via mlock_vma_page() - we wouldn't have gotten to
try_to_unmap_anon() if the page were already mlocked - and will return
@@ -619,11 +619,11 @@ all PTEs from the page. For this purpose, the unevictable/mlock infrastructure
introduced a variant of try_to_unmap() called try_to_munlock().
try_to_munlock() calls the same functions as try_to_unmap() for anonymous and
-mapped file pages with an additional argument specifing unlock versus unmap
+mapped file pages with an additional argument specifying unlock versus unmap
processing. Again, these functions walk the respective reverse maps looking
for VM_LOCKED VMAs. When such a VMA is found for anonymous pages and file
pages mapped in linear VMAs, as in the try_to_unmap() case, the functions
-attempt to acquire the associated mmap semphore, mlock the page via
+attempt to acquire the associated mmap semaphore, mlock the page via
mlock_vma_page() and return SWAP_MLOCK. This effectively undoes the
pre-clearing of the page's PG_mlocked done by munlock_vma_page.
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ with it - the usual fallback position.
Note that try_to_munlock()'s reverse map walk must visit every VMA in a page's
reverse map to determine that a page is NOT mapped into any VM_LOCKED VMA.
However, the scan can terminate when it encounters a VM_LOCKED VMA and can
-successfully acquire the VMA's mmap semphore for read and mlock the page.
+successfully acquire the VMA's mmap semaphore for read and mlock the page.
Although try_to_munlock() might be called a great many times when munlocking a
large region or tearing down a large address space that has been mlocked via
mlockall(), overall this is a fairly rare event.
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
index 4b93c28e35c6..9e162465b0cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
@@ -167,4 +167,4 @@ driver specific data to and a pointer to the data itself.
The watchdog_get_drvdata function allows you to retrieve driver specific data.
The argument of this function is the watchdog device where you want to retrieve
-data from. The function retruns the pointer to the driver specific data.
+data from. The function returns the pointer to the driver specific data.