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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-03-20 21:12:50 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-03-20 21:12:50 -0700 |
commit | 69a7aebcf019ab3ff5764525ad6858fbe23bb86d (patch) | |
tree | 7211df5704b743a7667159748c670a9744164482 /Documentation | |
parent | d464c92b5234227c1698862a1906827e2e398ae0 (diff) | |
parent | f1f996b66cc3908a8f5ffccc2ff41840e92f3b10 (diff) |
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')
56 files changed, 114 insertions, 109 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX index 65bbd262239..a1a64327288 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 4201d5b0551..ff60ad9eca4 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 75be4311833..a0dd21c6db5 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 f51f28531b8..3fca32c4192 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 cdd1bb9aac0..31df1aa0071 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 && ERR after CDB tranfer starts but before the + !BSY && ERR after CDB transfer starts but before the last byte of CDB is transferred. ATA/ATAPI standard states that "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 c736380b464..a2485b3ff3d 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 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 a17df9f91d1..5673594717c 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 84f0a15fc21..b4b1fb3a83f 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 2a8c11331d2..946c73342cd 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 0e5df9b04ad..a333bcb3a6c 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 801d9d1cf82..1ff044d87ca 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 dbdab40ed3a..edc618a8aab 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 6b07f65b32d..1881e1c6dda 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 7c1329de059..da0bfeb4253 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 bbe6cb3d185..879b6e31e2d 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 e5ce8a1a978..b95f5bb522f 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 10ec4639f15..8c10bf375c7 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 d8188966929..19a19ebebc3 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 65e03dd4482..c680b4b5353 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 a8273d5fad2..59b4a0962e0 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 3d9393b845b..e916e3d3648 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 ab70d96d2df..e5f982c845f 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 Vol |