trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes

Fix various typos in documentation txts.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

57 files changed, 88 insertions, 88 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
index 25fb8bcf32a..5aceb88b3f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
@@ -676,8 +676,8 @@ this directory the following files can currently be found:
 	dma-api/all_errors	This file contains a numeric value. If this
 				value is not equal to zero the debugging code
 				will print a warning for every error it finds
-				into the kernel log. Be carefull with this
-				option. It can easily flood your logs.
+				into the kernel log. Be careful with this
+				option, as it can easily flood your logs.
 
 	dma-api/disabled	This read-only file contains the character 'Y'
 				if the debugging code is disabled. This can
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt
index 6389dec3345..93cb28d05dc 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ to another chain) checking the final 'nulls' value if
 the lookup met the end of chain. If final 'nulls' value
 is not the slot number, then we must restart the lookup at
 the beginning. If the object was moved to the same chain,
-then the reader doesnt care : It might eventually
+then the reader doesn't care : It might eventually
 scan the list again without harm.
 
 
diff --git a/Documentation/SM501.txt b/Documentation/SM501.txt
index 6fc65603592..561826f8209 100644
--- a/Documentation/SM501.txt
+++ b/Documentation/SM501.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Copyright 2006, 2007 Simtec Electronics
 
 The Silicon Motion SM501 multimedia companion chip is a multifunction device
 which may provide numerous interfaces including USB host controller USB gadget,
-Asyncronous Serial ports, Audio functions and a dual display video interface.
+asynchronous serial ports, audio functions, and a dual display video interface.
 The device may be connected by PCI or local bus with varying functions enabled.
 
 Core
diff --git a/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt b/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt
index 72576769e0f..2d82c80322c 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ same criteria as reads.
 front_merges	(bool)
 ------------
 
-Sometimes it happens that a request enters the io scheduler that is contigious
+Sometimes it happens that a request enters the io scheduler that is contiguous
 with a request that is already on the queue. Either it fits in the back of that
 request, or it fits at the front. That is called either a back merge candidate
 or a front merge candidate. Due to the way files are typically laid out,
diff --git a/Documentation/braille-console.txt b/Documentation/braille-console.txt
index 000b0fbdc10..d0d042c2fd5 100644
--- a/Documentation/braille-console.txt
+++ b/Documentation/braille-console.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ parameter.
 
 For simplicity, only one braille console can be enabled, other uses of
 console=brl,... will be discarded.  Also note that it does not interfere with
-the console selection mecanism described in serial-console.txt
+the console selection mechanism described in serial-console.txt
 
 For now, only the VisioBraille device is supported.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt
index 387b8a720f4..d79aead9418 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt
+++ b/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ For example, you can do something like the following.
 
   void my_midlayer_destroy_something()
   {
-	devres_release_group(dev, my_midlayer_create_soemthing);
+	devres_release_group(dev, my_midlayer_create_something);
   }
 
 
diff --git a/Documentation/edac.txt b/Documentation/edac.txt
index 8eda3fb6641..06f8f46692d 100644
--- a/Documentation/edac.txt
+++ b/Documentation/edac.txt
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ first time, it was renamed to 'EDAC'.
 The bluesmoke project at sourceforge.net is now utilized as a 'staging area'
 for EDAC development, before it is sent upstream to kernel.org
 
-At the bluesmoke/EDAC project site, is a series of quilt patches against
-recent kernels, stored in a SVN respository. For easier downloading, there
+At the bluesmoke/EDAC project site is a series of quilt patches against
+recent kernels, stored in a SVN repository. For easier downloading, there
 is also a tarball snapshot available.
 
 ============================================================================
@@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ the vendor should tie the parity status bits to 0 if they do not intend
 to generate parity.  Some vendors do not do this, and thus the parity bit
 can "float" giving false positives.
 
-In the kernel there is a pci device attribute located in sysfs that is
+In the kernel there is a PCI device attribute located in sysfs that is
 checked by the EDAC PCI scanning code. If that attribute is set,
-PCI parity/error scannining is skipped for that device. The attribute
+PCI parity/error scanning is skipped for that device. The attribute
 is:
 
 	broken_parity_status
diff --git a/Documentation/fb/sh7760fb.txt b/Documentation/fb/sh7760fb.txt
index c87bfe5c630..b994c3b1054 100644
--- a/Documentation/fb/sh7760fb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fb/sh7760fb.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SH7760/SH7763 integrated LCDC Framebuffer driver
 ================================================
 
-0. Overwiew
+0. Overview
 -----------
 The SH7760/SH7763 have an integrated LCD Display controller (LCDC) which
 supports (in theory) resolutions ranging from 1x1 to 1024x1024,
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt
index c6341745df3..8f78ded4b64 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ The call requires an initialized struct autofs_dev_ioctl. There are two
 possible variations. Both use the path field set to the path of the mount
 point to check and the size field adjusted appropriately. One uses the
 ioctlfd field to identify a specific mount point to check while the other
-variation uses the path and optionaly arg1 set to an autofs mount type.
+variation uses the path and optionally arg1 set to an autofs mount type.
 The call returns 1 if this is a mount point and sets arg1 to the device
 number of the mount and field arg2 to the relevant super block magic
 number (described below) or 0 if it isn't a mountpoint. In both cases
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt
index 4db125b3a5c..2666b1ed5e9 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ This has the following fields:
      have index children.
 
      If this function is not supplied or if it returns NULL then the first
-     cache in the parent's list will be chosed, or failing that, the first
+     cache in the parent's list will be chosen, or failing that, the first
      cache in the master list.
 
  (4) A function to retrieve an object's key from the netfs [mandatory].
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
index 97882df0486..608fdba97b7 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ max_batch_time=usec	Maximum amount of time ext4 should wait for
 			amount of time (on average) that it takes to
 			finish committing a transaction.  Call this time
 			the "commit time".  If the time that the
-			transactoin has been running is less than the
+			transaction has been running is less than the
 			commit time, ext4 will try sleeping for the
 			commit time to see if other operations will join
 			the transaction.   The commit time is capped by
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ noauto_da_alloc		replacing existing files via patterns such as
 			journal commit, in the default data=ordered
 			mode, the data blocks of the new file are forced
 			to disk before the rename() operation is
-			commited.  This provides roughly the same level
+			committed.  This provides roughly the same level
 			of guarantees as ext3, and avoids the
 			"zero-length" problem that can happen when a
 			system crashes before the delayed allocation
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ written to the journal first, and then to its final location.
 In the event of a crash, the journal can be replayed, bringing both data and
 metadata into a consistent state.  This mode is the slowest except when data
 needs to be read from and written to disk at the same time where it
-outperforms all others modes.  Curently ext4 does not have delayed
+outperforms all others modes.  Currently ext4 does not have delayed
 allocation support if this data journalling mode is selected.
 
 References
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
index 1e3defcfe50..606233cd461 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ fiemap_check_flags() helper:
 
 int fiemap_check_flags(struct fiemap_extent_info *fieinfo, u32 fs_flags);
 
-The struct fieinfo should be passed in as recieved from ioctl_fiemap(). The
+The struct fieinfo should be passed in as received from ioctl_fiemap(). The
 set of fiemap flags which the fs understands should be passed via fs_flags. If
 fiemap_check_flags finds invalid user flags, it will place the bad values in
 fieinfo->fi_flags and return -EBADR. If the file system gets -EBADR, from
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs-rdma.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs-rdma.txt
index 85eaeaddd27..e386f7e4bce 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs-rdma.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs-rdma.txt
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Installation
     $ sudo cp utils/mount/mount.nfs /sbin/mount.nfs
 
     In this location, mount.nfs will be invoked automatically for NFS mounts
-    by the system mount commmand.
+    by the system mount command.
 
     NOTE: mount.nfs and therefore nfs-utils-1.1.2 or greater is only needed
     on the NFS client machine. You do not need this specific version of
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index ce84cfc9eae..cd8717a3627 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ just those considered 'most important'.  The new vectors are:
   RES, CAL, TLB -- rescheduling, call and TLB flush interrupts are
   sent from one CPU to another per the needs of the OS.  Typically,
   their statistics are used by kernel developers and interested users to
-  determine the occurance of interrupt of the given type.
+  determine the occurrence of interrupts of the given type.
 
 The above IRQ vectors are displayed only when relevent.  For example,
 the threshold vector does not exist on x86_64 platforms.  Others are
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ Committed_AS: The amount of memory presently allocated on the system.
               memory once that memory has been successfully allocated.
 VmallocTotal: total size of vmalloc memory area
  VmallocUsed: amount of vmalloc area which is used
-VmallocChunk: largest contigious block of vmalloc area which is free
+VmallocChunk: largest contiguous block of vmalloc area which is free
 
 ..............................................................................
 
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
index 26e4b8bc53e..85354b32d73 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ The 'rom' file is special in that it provides read-only access to the device's
 ROM file, if available.  It's disabled by default, however, so applications
 should write the string "1" to the file to enable it before attempting a read
 call, and disable it following the access by writing "0" to the file.  Note
-that the device must be enabled for a rom read to return data succesfully.
+that the device must be enabled for a rom read to return data successfully.
 In the event a driver is not bound to the device, it can be enabled using the
 'enable' file, documented above.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
index 3a5ddc96901..5147be5e13c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
@@ -124,10 +124,10 @@ sys_immutable -- If set, ATTR_SYS attribute on FAT is handled as
 flush         -- If set, the filesystem will try to flush to disk more
 		 early than normal. Not set by default.
 
-rodir	      -- FAT has the ATTR_RO (read-only) attribute. But on Windows,
-		 the ATTR_RO of the directory will be just ignored actually,
-		 and is used by only applications as flag. E.g. it's setted
-		 for the customized folder.
+rodir	      -- FAT has the ATTR_RO (read-only) attribute. On Windows,
+		 the ATTR_RO of the directory will just be ignored,
+		 and is used only by applications as a flag (e.g. it's set
+		 for the customized folder).
 
 		 If you want to use ATTR_RO as read-only flag even for
 		 the directory, set this option.
diff --git a/Documentation/gpio.txt b/Documentation/gpio.txt
index 145c25a170c..e4b6985044a 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gpio.txt
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ debugfs interface, since it provides control over GPIO direction and
 value instead of just showing a gpio state summary.  Plus, it could be
 present on production systems without debugging support.
 
-Given approprate hardware documentation for the system, userspace could
+Given appropriate hardware documentation for the system, userspace could
 know for example that GPIO #23 controls the write protect line used to
 protect boot loader segments in flash memory.  System upgrade procedures
 may need to temporarily remove that protection, first importing a GPIO,
diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index 3f4bc840da8..cab61d84225 100644
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ There are two possible methods of using Kdump.
 
 2) Or use the system kernel binary itself as dump-capture kernel and there is
    no need to build a separate dump-capture kernel. This is possible
-   only with the architecutres which support a relocatable kernel. As
+   only with the architectures which support a relocatable kernel. As
    of today, i386, x86_64, ppc64 and ia64 architectures support relocatable
    kernel.
 
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, ia64)
 ----------------------------------------------------------
 
 - No specific options are required to create a dump-capture kernel
-  for ia64, other than those specified in the arch idependent section
+  for ia64, other than those specified in the arch independent section
   above. This means that it is possible to use the system kernel
   as a dump-capture kernel if desired.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 7bcdebffdab..24d726f9106 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1076,7 +1076,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
 	kgdboc=		[HW] kgdb over consoles.
 			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling.
-			(only serial suported for now)
+			(only serial supported for now)
 			Format: <serial_device>[,baud]
 
 	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
@@ -1405,7 +1405,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
 
 	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
-			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continous chunk
+			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
 			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
 
 	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
diff --git a/Documentation/kobject.txt b/Documentation/kobject.txt
index b2e374586bd..c79ab996dad 100644
--- a/Documentation/kobject.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kobject.txt
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ kobject_name():
     const char *kobject_name(const struct kobject * kobj);
 
 There is a helper function to both initialize and add the kobject to the
-kernel at the same time, called supprisingly enough kobject_init_and_add():
+kernel at the same time, called surprisingly enough kobject_init_and_add():
 
     int kobject_init_and_add(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_type *ktype,
                              struct kobject *parent, const char *fmt, ...);
diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt
index 5ee2a02b3b4..0768fcc3ba3 100644
--- a/Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ NOTE: The Acer Aspire One is not supported hardware. It cannot work with
 acer-wmi until Acer fix their ACPI-WMI implementation on them, so has been
 blacklisted until that happens.
 
-Please see the website for the current list of known working hardare:
+Please see the website for the current list of known working hardware:
 
 http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/wiki/SupportedHardware
 
diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/sony-laptop.txt b/Documentation/laptops/sony-laptop.txt
index 8b2bc1572d9..23ce7d350d1 100644
--- a/Documentation/laptops/sony-laptop.txt
+++ b/Documentation/laptops/sony-laptop.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ If your laptop model supports it, you will find sysfs files in the
 /sys/class/backlight/sony/
 directory. You will be able to query and set the current screen
 brightness:
-	brightness		get/set screen brightness (an iteger
+	brightness		get/set screen brightness (an integer
 				between 0 and 7)
 	actual_brightness	reading from this file will query the HW
 				to get real brightness value
diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
index e7e9a69069e..78e354b42f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ generate input device EV_KEY events.
 In addition to the EV_KEY events, thinkpad-acpi may also issue EV_SW
 events for switches:
 
-SW_RFKILL_ALL	T60 and later hardare rfkill rocker switch
+SW_RFKILL_ALL	T60 and later hardware rfkill rocker switch
 SW_TABLET_MODE	Tablet ThinkPads HKEY events 0x5009 and 0x500A
 
 Non hot-key ACPI HKEY event map:
diff --git a/Documentation/local_ops.txt b/Documentation/local_ops.txt
index 23045b8b50f..300da4bdfdb 100644
--- a/Documentation/local_ops.txt
+++ b/Documentation/local_ops.txt
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ out of order wrt other memory writes by the owner CPU.
 
 It can be done by slightly modifying the standard atomic operations : only
 their UP variant must be kept. It typically means removing LOCK prefix (on
-i386 and x86_64) and any SMP sychronization barrier. If the architecture does
+i386 and x86_64) and any SMP synchronization barrier. If the architecture does
 not have a different behavior between SMP and UP, including asm-generic/local.h
 in your architecture's local.h is sufficient.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
index 4c2ecf537a4..bbc8a6a3692 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
@@ -73,13 +73,13 @@ this phase is triggered automatically. ACPI can notify this event. If not,
 (see Section 4.).
 
 Logical Memory Hotplug phase is to change memory state into
-avaiable/unavailable for users. Amount of memory from user's view is
+available/unavailable for users. Amount of memory from user's view is
 changed by this phase. The kernel makes all memory in it as free pages
 when a memory range is available.
 
 In this document, this phase is described as online/offline.
 
-Logical Memory Hotplug phase is triggred by write of sysfs file by system
+Logical Memory Hotplug phase is triggered by write of sysfs file by system
 administrator. For the hot-add case, it must be executed after Physical Hotplug
 phase by hand.
 (However, if you writes udev's hotplug scripts for memory hotplug, these
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ MEMORY_CANCEL_ONLINE
   Generated if MEMORY_GOING_ONLINE fails.
 
 MEMORY_ONLINE
-  Generated when memory has succesfully brought online. The callback may
+  Generated when memory has successfully brought online. The callback may
   allocate pages from the new memory.
 
 MEMORY_GOING_OFFLINE
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ The third argument is passed by pointer of struct memory_notify.
 struct memory_notify {
        unsigned long start_pfn;
        unsigned long nr_pages;