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authorMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>2007-10-20 01:34:40 +0200
committerAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>2007-10-20 01:34:40 +0200
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tree210291bd341c4450c8c51d8db890af0978f4035d /Documentation/powerpc
parent0f035b8e8491f4ff87f6eec3e3f754d36b39d7a2 (diff)
downloadlinux-01dd2fbf0da4019c380b6ca22a074538fb31db5a.tar.bz2
typo fixes
Most of these fixes were already submitted for old kernel versions, and were approved, but for some reason they never made it into the releases. Because this is a consolidation of a couple old missed patches, it touches both Kconfigs and documentation texts. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/powerpc')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx-device-tree-bindings.txt12
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt
index 4530d1bf0286..df7afe43d462 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ Causes of EEH Errors
EEH was originally designed to guard against hardware failure, such
as PCI cards dying from heat, humidity, dust, vibration and bad
electrical connections. The vast majority of EEH errors seen in
-"real life" are due to eithr poorly seated PCI cards, or,
-unfortunately quite commonly, due device driver bugs, device firmware
+"real life" are due to either poorly seated PCI cards, or,
+unfortunately quite commonly, due to device driver bugs, device firmware
bugs, and sometimes PCI card hardware bugs.
The most common software bug, is one that causes the device to
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx-device-tree-bindings.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx-device-tree-bindings.txt
index e59fcbbe338c..5f7d536cb0c6 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx-device-tree-bindings.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx-device-tree-bindings.txt
@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@ passed by the boot loader to the kernel at boot time. The device tree
describes what devices are present on the board and how they are
connected. The device tree can either be passed as a binary blob (as
described in Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt), or passed
-by Open Firmare (IEEE 1275) compatible firmware using an OF compatible
+by Open Firmware (IEEE 1275) compatible firmware using an OF compatible
client interface API.
This document specifies the requirements on the device-tree for mpc5200
based boards. These requirements are above and beyond the details
-specified in either the OpenFirmware spec or booting-without-of.txt
+specified in either the Open Firmware spec or booting-without-of.txt
All new mpc5200-based boards are expected to match this document. In
cases where this document is not sufficient to support a new board port,
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ match on the compatible list; the 'most compatible' driver should be
selected.
The split between the MPC5200 and the MPC5200B leaves a bit of a
-connundrum. How should the compatible property be set up to provide
-maximum compatability information; but still acurately describe the
+conundrum. How should the compatible property be set up to provide
+maximum compatibility information; but still accurately describe the
chip? For the MPC5200; the answer is easy. Most of the SoC devices
originally appeared on the MPC5200. Since they didn't exist anywhere
else; the 5200 compatible properties will contain only one item;
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ The 5200B is almost the same as the 5200, but not quite. It fixes
silicon bugs and it adds a small number of enhancements. Most of the
devices either provide exactly the same interface as on the 5200. A few
devices have extra functions but still have a backwards compatible mode.
-To express this infomation as completely as possible, 5200B device trees
+To express this information as completely as possible, 5200B device trees
should have two items in the compatible list;
"mpc5200b-<device>\0mpc5200-<device>". It is *strongly* recommended
that 5200B device trees follow this convention (instead of only listing
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ ethernet@<addr> network mpc5200-fec MPC5200 ethernet device
ata@<addr> ata mpc5200-ata IDE ATA interface
i2c@<addr> i2c mpc5200-i2c I2C controller
usb@<addr> usb-ohci-be mpc5200-ohci,ohci-be USB controller
-xlb@<addr> xlb mpc5200-xlb XLB arbritrator
+xlb@<addr> xlb mpc5200-xlb XLB arbitrator
Important child node properties
name type description