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authorAndré Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>2009-11-14 13:09:05 -0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2009-12-04 15:39:55 +0100
commitaf901ca181d92aac3a7dc265144a9081a86d8f39 (patch)
tree380054af22521144fbe1364c3bcd55ad24c9bde4 /Documentation
parent972b94ffb90ea6d20c589d9a47215df103388ddd (diff)
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tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place
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 <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/v4l/videodev2.h.xml2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/lguest/lguest.c2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/spi/spi-summary2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/video4linux/gspca.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/page-types.c2
12 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats b/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats
index 99233902e09e..f91a973a37fe 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 5f3bedaf8e35..d2f90334bb93 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Description:
The /sys/block/<disk>/stat files displays the I/O
statistics of disk <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 df0d089d0fb9..f508a8a27fea 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ module_exit(board_cleanup);
<sect1 id="Multiple_chip_control">
<title>Multiple chip control</title>
<para>
- 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 97002060ac4f..26303e58345f 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/videodev2.h.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/videodev2.h.xml
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ struct <link linkend="v4l2-jpegcompression">v4l2_jpegcompression</link> {
* 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 7a2e0e98986a..0d0f7b4d4b1a 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-&gt;dma_area.
The physical address (runtime-&gt;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-&gt;table.
You can get the physical address at a certain offset via
<function>snd_pcm_sgbuf_get_addr()</function>.
diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb b/Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb
index bf2a9cdfe7bb..c8238e44ed6b 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 098de5bce00a..42208511b5c0 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 c851ef497795..84524e0cf9c3 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 <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>/Bo Yang
diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
index deab51ddc33e..4884cb33845d 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 a6e360d2055c..fc5790d36cd9 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 3f61825be499..6b29555b58b7 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 3ec4f2a22585..aa7f4d0639c4 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] : '_';