diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg b/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg index 7e7e07a82e0ec1..bb820be4817900 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Description: The /dev/kmsg character device node provides userspace access The flags field carries '-' by default. A 'c' indicates a fragment of a line. All following fragments are flagged with '+'. Note, that these hints about continuation lines are not - neccessarily correct, and the stream could be interleaved with + necessarily correct, and the stream could be interleaved with unrelated messages, but merging the lines in the output usually produces better human readable results. A similar logic is used internally when messages are printed to the diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power index 45000f0db4d4b4..f76a0447da74e8 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki Description: The /sys/devices/.../wakeup_prevent_sleep_time_ms attribute contains the total time the device has been preventing - opportunistic transitions to sleep states from occuring. + opportunistic transitions to sleep states from occurring. This attribute is read-only. If the device is not enabled to wake up the system from sleep states, this attribute is not present. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ppi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ppi index 97a003ee058bc7..7d1435bc976c70 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ppi +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ppi @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Contact: xiaoyan.zhang@intel.com Description: This folder includes the attributes related with PPI (Physical Presence Interface). Only if TPM is supported by BIOS, this - folder makes sence. The folder path can be got by command + folder makes sense. The folder path can be got by command 'find /sys/ -name 'pcrs''. For the detail information of PPI, please refer to the PPI specification from http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/ diff --git a/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt b/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt index ad86fb86c9a025..0188903bc9e1ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt +++ b/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ Being able to mmap an export dma-buf buffer object has 2 main use-cases: leaving the cpu domain and flushing caches at fault time. Note that all the dma_buf files share the same anon inode, hence the exporter needs to replace the dma_buf file stored in vma->vm_file with it's own if pte shootdown is - requred. This is because the kernel uses the underlying inode's address_space + required. This is because the kernel uses the underlying inode's address_space for vma tracking (and hence pte tracking at shootdown time with unmap_mapping_range). @@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ Being able to mmap an export dma-buf buffer object has 2 main use-cases: Exporters that shoot down mappings (for any reasons) shall not do any synchronization at fault time with outstanding device operations. Synchronization is an orthogonal issue to sharing the backing storage of a - buffer and hence should not be handled by dma-buf itself. This is explictly + buffer and hence should not be handled by dma-buf itself. This is explicitly mentioned here because many people seem to want something like this, but if different exporters handle this differently, buffer sharing can fail in interesting ways depending upong the exporter (if userspace starts depending diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/notifier-error-inject.txt b/Documentation/fault-injection/notifier-error-inject.txt index c83526c364e584..09adabef513ff8 100644 --- a/Documentation/fault-injection/notifier-error-inject.txt +++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/notifier-error-inject.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Notifier error injection ======================== -Notifier error injection provides the ability to inject artifical errors to +Notifier error injection provides the ability to inject artificial errors to specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error handling of notifier call chain failures which is rarely executed. There are kernel modules that can be used to test the following notifiers. @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ modules that can be used to test the following notifiers. CPU notifier error injection module ----------------------------------- This feature can be used to test the error handling of the CPU notifiers by -injecting artifical errors to CPU notifier chain callbacks. +injecting artificial errors to CPU notifier chain callbacks. If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events notified, write the error code to debugfs interface diff --git a/Documentation/hid/uhid.txt b/Documentation/hid/uhid.txt index 4627c4241ece69..3c741214dfbbb0 100644 --- a/Documentation/hid/uhid.txt +++ b/Documentation/hid/uhid.txt @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ the request was handled successfully. UHID_FEATURE_ANSWER: If you receive a UHID_FEATURE request you must answer with this request. You must copy the "id" field from the request into the answer. Set the "err" field - to 0 if no error occured or to EIO if an I/O error occurred. + to 0 if no error occurred or to EIO if an I/O error occurred. If "err" is 0 then you should fill the buffer of the answer with the results of the feature request and set "size" correspondingly. diff --git a/Documentation/input/alps.txt b/Documentation/input/alps.txt index ae8ba9a74ce13e..3262b6e4d686ac 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/alps.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/alps.txt @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ number of contacts (f1 and f0 in the table below). This packet only appears after a position packet with the mt bit set, and usually only appears when there are two or more contacts (although -occassionally it's seen with only a single contact). +occasionally it's seen with only a single contact). The final v3 packet type is the trackstick packet. diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt index 3fb39e0116b4c8..69372fb98cf89e 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt @@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ build. Sometimes, an external module uses exported symbols from another external module. kbuild needs to have full knowledge of - all symbols to avoid spitting out warnings about undefined + all symbols to avoid spliitting out warnings about undefined symbols. Three solutions exist for this situation. NOTE: The method with a top-level kbuild file is recommended diff --git a/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version.c b/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version.c index 01804f21631293..49e4f770864a5f 100644 --- a/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version.c +++ b/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version.c @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static ssize_t mei_send_msg(struct mei *me, const unsigned char *buffer, } /*************************************************************************** - * Intel Advanced Management Technolgy ME Client + * Intel Advanced Management Technology ME Client ***************************************************************************/ #define AMT_MAJOR_VERSION 1 @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ struct amt_code_versions { } __attribute__((packed)); /*************************************************************************** - * Intel Advanced Management Technolgy Host Interface + * Intel Advanced Management Technology Host Interface ***************************************************************************/ struct amt_host_if_msg_header { diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Cards b/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Cards index db833ced2cb89c..a8fb6e2d3c8bed 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Cards +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Cards @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Very nice card if you only have satellite TV but several tuners connected to the card via composite. Many thanks to Matrix-Vision for giving us 2 cards for free which made -Bt848a/Bt849 single crytal operation support possible!!! +Bt848a/Bt849 single crystal operation support possible!!! diff --git a/Documentation/vm/frontswap.txt b/Documentation/vm/frontswap.txt index 5ef2d136642541..c71a019be600bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/frontswap.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/frontswap.txt @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ faster. or maybe swap-over-nbd/NFS)? No. First, the existing swap subsystem doesn't allow for any kind of -swap hierarchy. Perhaps it could be rewritten to accomodate a hierarchy, +swap hierarchy. Perhaps it could be rewritten to accommodate a hierarchy, but this would require fairly drastic changes. Even if it were rewritten, the existing swap subsystem uses the block I/O layer which assumes a swap device is fixed size and any page in it is linearly