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authorTomasz Duszynski <tduszyns@gmail.com>2019-02-25 21:23:26 +0100
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2019-03-04 12:51:17 -0700
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downloadlinux-8c56eebc0d01d8bd21784af080f86eed1caf8277.tar.bz2
docs: driver-api: iio: fix errors in documentation
Improve IIO documentation by fixing a few mistakes. Signed-off-by: Tomasz Duszynski <tduszyns@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/iio/buffers.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/iio/core.rst6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/iio/hw-consumer.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/iio/triggers.rst2
4 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/iio/buffers.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/iio/buffers.rst
index 02c99a6bee18..e9036ef9f8f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/iio/buffers.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/iio/buffers.rst
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ IIO buffer setup
================
The meta information associated with a channel reading placed in a buffer is
-called a scan element . The important bits configuring scan elements are
+called a scan element. The important bits configuring scan elements are
exposed to userspace applications via the
:file:`/sys/bus/iio/iio:device{X}/scan_elements/*` directory. This file contains
attributes of the following form:
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/iio/core.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/iio/core.rst
index 9a34ae03b679..b0bc0c028cc5 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/iio/core.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/iio/core.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
Core elements
=============
-The Industrial I/O core offers a unified framework for writing drivers for
-many different types of embedded sensors. a standard interface to user space
+The Industrial I/O core offers both a unified framework for writing drivers for
+many different types of embedded sensors and a standard interface to user space
applications manipulating sensors. The implementation can be found under
:file:`drivers/iio/industrialio-*`
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Industrial I/O Devices
----------------------
* struct :c:type:`iio_dev` - industrial I/O device
-* :c:func:`iio_device_alloc()` - alocate an :c:type:`iio_dev` from a driver
+* :c:func:`iio_device_alloc()` - allocate an :c:type:`iio_dev` from a driver
* :c:func:`iio_device_free()` - free an :c:type:`iio_dev` from a driver
* :c:func:`iio_device_register()` - register a device with the IIO subsystem
* :c:func:`iio_device_unregister()` - unregister a device from the IIO
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/iio/hw-consumer.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/iio/hw-consumer.rst
index 8facce6a6733..e0fe0b98230e 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/iio/hw-consumer.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/iio/hw-consumer.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
===========
HW consumer
===========
-An IIO device can be directly connected to another device in hardware. in this
+An IIO device can be directly connected to another device in hardware. In this
case the buffers between IIO provider and IIO consumer are handled by hardware.
The Industrial I/O HW consumer offers a way to bond these IIO devices without
software buffer for data. The implementation can be found under
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/iio/triggers.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/iio/triggers.rst
index f89d37e7dd82..5c2156de6284 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/iio/triggers.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/iio/triggers.rst
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ There are two locations in sysfs related to triggers:
* :file:`/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device{X}/trigger/*`, this directory is
created once the device supports a triggered buffer. We can associate a
- trigger with our device by writing the trigger's name in the
+ trigger with our device by writing the trigger's name in the
:file:`current_trigger` file.
IIO trigger setup