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diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
@@ -1677,7 +1677,7 @@ W: http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
 D: Assorted VIA x86 support.
 D: 2.5 AGPGART overhaul.
 D: CPUFREQ maintenance.
-D: Fedora kernel maintainence.
+D: Fedora kernel maintenance.
 D: Misc/Other.
 S: 314 Littleton Rd, Westford, MA 01886, USA
 
@@ -3211,7 +3211,7 @@ N: James Simmons
 E: [email protected]
 E: [email protected] 
 D: Frame buffer device maintainer
-D: input layer developement 
+D: input layer development
 D: tty/console layer
 D: various mipsel devices 
 S: 115 Carmel Avenue 
@@ -3290,7 +3290,7 @@ S: USA
 N: Manfred Spraul
 E: [email protected]
 W: http://www.colorfullife.com/~manfred
-D: Lots of tiny hacks. Larger improvments to SysV IPC msg,
+D: Lots of tiny hacks. Larger improvements to SysV IPC msg,
 D: slab, pipe, select.
 S: 71701 Schwieberdingen
 S: Germany

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-css b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-css
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Contact:	Cornelia Huck <[email protected]>
 		[email protected]
 Description:	Contains the PIM/PAM/POM values, as reported by the
 		channel subsystem when last queried by the common I/O
-		layer (this implies that this attribute is not neccessarily
+		layer (this implies that this attribute is not necessarily
 		in sync with the values current in the channel subsystem).
 		Note: This is an I/O-subchannel specific attribute.
 Users:		s390-tools, HAL
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led
@@ -33,5 +33,5 @@ Contact:	Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
 Description:
 		Invert the LED on/off state. This parameter is specific to
 		gpio and backlight triggers. In case of the backlight trigger,
-		it is usefull when driving a LED which is intended to indicate
+		it is useful when driving a LED which is intended to indicate
 		a device in a standby like state.
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/dvbproperty.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/dvbproperty.xml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 
 			<para>Central frequency of the channel.</para>
 
-			<para>For ISDB-T the channels are usally transmitted with an offset of 143kHz. E.g. a
+			<para>For ISDB-T the channels are usually transmitted with an offset of 143kHz. E.g. a
 				valid frequncy could be 474143 kHz. The stepping is bound to the bandwidth of
 				the channel which is 6MHz.</para>
 

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/frontend.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/frontend.xml
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ consistently to the DiSEqC commands as described in the DiSEqC spec.</para>
 <section id="frontend_sec_tone">
 <title>SEC continuous tone</title>
 
-<para>The continous 22KHz tone is usually used with non-DiSEqC capable LNBs to switch the
+<para>The continuous 22KHz tone is usually used with non-DiSEqC capable LNBs to switch the
 high/low band of a dual-band LNB. When using DiSEqC epuipment this voltage has to
 be switched consistently to the DiSEqC commands as described in the DiSEqC
 spec.</para>

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
@@ -1763,7 +1763,7 @@ as it would be on UP.
 There is a furthur optimization possible here: remember our original
 cache code, where there were no reference counts and the caller simply
 held the lock whenever using the object?  This is still possible: if
-you hold the lock, noone can delete the object, so you don't need to
+you hold the lock, no one can delete the object, so you don't need to
 get and put the reference count.
 </para>
 

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl
@@ -1032,7 +1032,7 @@ and other resources, etc.
 	   <listitem>
 	   <para>
 	   This is indicated by ICRC bit in the ERROR register and
-	   means that corruption occurred during data transfer.  Upto
+	   means that corruption occurred during data transfer.  Up to
 	   ATA/ATAPI-7, the standard specifies that this bit is only
 	   applicable to UDMA transfers but ATA/ATAPI-8 draft revision
 	   1f says that the bit may be applicable to multiword DMA and
@@ -1045,10 +1045,10 @@ and other resources, etc.
 	   <term>ABRT error during data transfer or on completion</term>
 	   <listitem>
 	   <para>
-	   Upto ATA/ATAPI-7, the standard specifies that ABRT could be
+	   Up to ATA/ATAPI-7, the standard specifies that ABRT could be
 	   set on ICRC errors and on cases where a device is not able
 	   to complete a command.  Combined with the fact that MWDMA
-	   and PIO transfer errors aren't allowed to use ICRC bit upto
+	   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.
 	   </para>
@@ -1122,7 +1122,7 @@ and other resources, etc.
 	<para>
 	Depending on commands, not all STATUS/ERROR bits are
 	applicable.  These non-applicable bits are marked with
-	&quot;na&quot; in the output descriptions but upto ATA/ATAPI-7
+	&quot;na&quot; in the output descriptions but up to ATA/ATAPI-7
 	no definition of &quot;na&quot; can be found.  However,
 	ATA/ATAPI-8 draft revision 1f describes &quot;N/A&quot; as
 	follows.
@@ -1507,7 +1507,7 @@ and other resources, etc.
 
 	<listitem>
 	<para>
-	CHS set up with INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS (seldomly used)
+	CHS set up with INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS (seldom used)
 	</para>
 	</listitem>
 

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ static void board_select_chip (struct mtd_info *mtd, int chip)
 				Reed-Solomon library.
 			</para>
 			<para>
-				The ECC bytes must be placed immidiately after the data
+				The ECC bytes must be placed immediately after the data
 				bytes in order to make the syndrome generator work. This
 				is contrary to the usual layout used by software ECC. The
 				separation of data and out of band area is not longer
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ static void board_select_chip (struct mtd_info *mtd, int chip)
 				holds the bad block table. Store a pointer to the pattern  
 				in the pattern field. Further the length of the pattern has to be 
 				stored in len and the offset in the spare area must be given
-				in the offs member of the nand_bbt_descr stucture. For mirrored
+				in the offs member of the nand_bbt_descr structure. For mirrored
 				bad block tables different patterns are mandatory.</para></listitem>
 				<listitem><para>Table creation</para>
 				<para>Set the option NAND_BBT_CREATE to enable the table creation
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ static void board_select_chip (struct mtd_info *mtd, int chip)
 				<listitem><para>Table version control</para>
 				<para>Set the option NAND_BBT_VERSION to enable the table version control.
 				It's highly recommended to enable this for mirrored tables with write
-				support. It makes sure that the risk of loosing the bad block
+				support. It makes sure that the risk of losing the bad block
 				table information is reduced to the loss of the information about the
 				one worn out block which should be marked bad. The version is stored in
 				4 consecutive bytes in the spare area of the device. The position of
@@ -1060,19 +1060,19 @@ data in this page</entry>
 <row>
 <entry>0x3D</entry>
 <entry>ECC byte 21</entry>
-<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the eigth 256 Bytes of data
+<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the eighth 256 Bytes of data
 in this page</entry>
 </row>
 <row>
 <entry>0x3E</entry>
 <entry>ECC byte 22</entry>
-<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the eigth 256 Bytes of data
+<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the eighth 256 Bytes of data
 in this page</entry>
 </row>
 <row>
 <entry>0x3F</entry>
 <entry>ECC byte 23</entry>
-<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the eigth 256 Bytes of data
+<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the eighth 256 Bytes of data
 in this page</entry>
 </row>
 </tbody></tgroup></informaltable>

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/regulator.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/regulator.tmpl
@@ -267,8 +267,8 @@
      <sect1 id="machine-constraint">
        <title>Constraints</title>
        <para>
-	 As well as definining the connections the machine interface
-	 also provides constraints definining the operations that
+	 As well as defining the connections the machine interface
+	 also provides constraints defining the operations that
 	 clients are allowed to perform and the parameters that may be
 	 set.  This is required since generally regulator devices will
 	 offer more flexibility than it is safe to use on a given

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ framework to set up sysfs files for this region. Simply leave it alone.
 	perform some initialization. After that, your hardware
 	starts working and will generate an interrupt as soon
 	as it's finished, has some data available, or needs your
-	attention because an error occured.
+	attention because an error occurred.
 	</para>
 	<para>
 	<filename>/dev/uioX</filename> is a read-only file. A

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/usb.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/usb.tmpl
@@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ usbdev_ioctl (int fd, int ifno, unsigned request, void *param)
 		    </para><para>
 		    This request lets kernel drivers talk to user mode code
 		    through filesystem operations even when they don't create
-		    a charactor or block special device.
+		    a character or block special device.
 		    It's also been used to do things like ask devices what
 		    device special file should be used.
 		    Two pre-defined ioctls are used

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/common.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/common.xml
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ [email protected], 2002-11-20. --></para>
 
       <para>By convention system administrators create various
 character device special files with these major and minor numbers in
-the <filename>/dev</filename> directory. The names recomended for the
+the <filename>/dev</filename> directory. The names recommended for the
 different V4L2 device types are listed in <xref linkend="devices" />.
 </para>
 

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/controls.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/controls.xml
@@ -1243,7 +1243,7 @@ values are:</entry>
 	      </row><row><entry spanname="descr">Mutes the audio when
 capturing. This is not done by muting audio hardware, which can still
 produce a slight hiss, but in the encoder itself, guaranteeing a fixed
-and reproducable audio bitstream. 0 = unmuted, 1 = muted.</entry>
+and reproducible audio bitstream. 0 = unmuted, 1 = muted.</entry>
 	      </row>
 	      <row><entry></entry></row>
 	      <row id="v4l2-mpeg-video-encoding">

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/dev-subdev.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/dev-subdev.xml
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
     processing hardware.</para>
 
     <figure id="pipeline-scaling">
-      <title>Image Format Negotation on Pipelines</title>
+      <title>Image Format Negotiation on Pipelines</title>
       <mediaobject>
 	<imageobject>
 	  <imagedata fileref="pipeline.pdf" format="PS" />

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/libv4l.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/libv4l.xml
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ and is not locked sets the cid to the scaled value.
 			<para>int v4l2_get_control(int fd, int cid) -
 This function returns a value of 0 - 65535, scaled to from the actual range
 of the given v4l control id. when the cid does not exist, could not be
-accessed for some reason, or some error occured 0 is returned.
+accessed for some reason, or some error occurred 0 is returned.
 </para></listitem>
 </itemizedlist>
 		</section>

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/remote_controllers.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/remote_controllers.xml
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ different IR's. Due to that, V4L2 API now specifies a standard for mapping Media
 <row><entry><constant>KEY_LEFT</constant></entry><entry>Left key</entry><entry>LEFT</entry></row>
 <row><entry><constant>KEY_RIGHT</constant></entry><entry>Right key</entry><entry>RIGHT</entry></row>
 
-<row><entry><emphasis role="bold">Miscelaneous keys</emphasis></entry></row>
+<row><entry><emphasis role="bold">Miscellaneous keys</emphasis></entry></row>
 
 <row><entry><constant>KEY_DOT</constant></entry><entry>Return a dot</entry><entry>.</entry></row>
 <row><entry><constant>KEY_FN</constant></entry><entry>Select a function</entry><entry>FUNCTION</entry></row>

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl
@@ -4784,7 +4784,7 @@ struct _snd_pcm_runtime {
         FM registers can be directly accessed through the direct-FM API,
       defined in <filename>&lt;sound/asound_fm.h&gt;</filename>. In
       ALSA native mode, FM registers are accessed through
-      the Hardware-Dependant Device direct-FM extension API, whereas in
+      the Hardware-Dependent Device direct-FM extension API, whereas in
       OSS compatible mode, FM registers can be accessed with the OSS
       direct-FM compatible API in <filename>/dev/dmfmX</filename> device. 
       </para>

diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt
@@ -253,8 +253,8 @@ In constrast, MSI is restricted to a maximum of 32 interrupts (and
 must be a power of two).  In addition, the MSI interrupt vectors must
 be allocated consecutively, so the system may not be able to allocate
 as many vectors for MSI as it could for MSI-X.  On some platforms, MSI
-interrupts must all be targetted at the same set of CPUs whereas MSI-X
-interrupts can all be targetted at different CPUs.
+interrupts must all be targeted at the same set of CPUs whereas MSI-X
+interrupts can all be targeted at different CPUs.
 
 4.5.2 Spinlocks
 

diff --git a/Documentation/SecurityBugs b/Documentation/SecurityBugs
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ expect these delays to be short, measurable in days, not weeks or months.
 A disclosure date is negotiated by the security team working with the
 bug submitter as well as vendors.  However, the kernel security team
 holds the final say when setting a disclosure date.  The timeframe for
-disclosure is from immediate (esp. if it's already publically known)
+disclosure is from immediate (esp. if it's already publicly known)
 to a few weeks.  As a basic default policy, we expect report date to
 disclosure date to be on the order of 7 days.
 

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers b/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ PM support:	Since Linux is used on many portable and desktop systems, your
 		complete overview of the power management issues related to
 		drivers see Documentation/power/devices.txt .
 
-Control:	In general if there is active maintainance of a driver by
+Control:	In general if there is active maintenance of a driver by
 		the author then patches will be redirected to them unless
 		they are totally obvious and without need of checking.
 		If you want to be the contact and update point for the

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -729,7 +729,7 @@ Linus Torvalds's mail on the canonical patch format:
   <http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/7/183>
 
 Andi Kleen, "On submitting kernel patches"
-  Some strategies to get difficult or controversal changes in.
+  Some strategies to get difficult or controversial changes in.
   http://halobates.de/on-submitting-patches.pdf
 
 --
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/IXP4xx b/Documentation/arm/IXP4xx
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Linux currently supports the following features on the IXP4xx chips:
 - Timers (watchdog, OS)
 
 The following components of the chips are not supported by Linux and
-require the use of Intel's propietary CSR softare:
+require the use of Intel's proprietary CSR softare:
 
 - USB device interface
 - Network interfaces (HSS, Utopia, NPEs, etc)
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ software from:
 
    http://developer.intel.com/design/network/products/npfamily/ixp425.htm    
 
-DO NOT POST QUESTIONS TO THE LINUX MAILING LISTS REGARDING THE PROPIETARY
+DO NOT POST QUESTIONS TO THE LINUX MAILING LISTS REGARDING THE PROPRIETARY
 SOFTWARE.
 
 There are several websites that provide directions/pointers on using

diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Suspend.txt b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Suspend.txt
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Configuration
     Allows the entire memory to be checksummed before and after the
     suspend to see if there has been any corruption of the contents.
 
-    Note, the time to calculate the CRC is dependant on the CPU speed
+    Note, the time to calculate the CRC is dependent on the CPU speed
     and the size of memory. For an 64Mbyte RAM area on an 200MHz
     S3C2410, this can take approximately 4 seconds to complete.
 

diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Samsung/GPIO.txt b/Documentation/arm/Samsung/GPIO.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Introduction
 ------------
 
 This outlines the Samsung GPIO implementation and the architecture
-specfic calls provided alongisde the drivers/gpio core.
+specific calls provided alongisde the drivers/gpio core.
 
 
 S3C24XX (Legacy)

diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ The scatter gather list is in the form of an array of <page, offset, len>
 entries with their corresponding dma address mappings filled in at the
 appropriate time. As an optimization, contiguous physical pages can be
 covered by a single entry where <page> refers to the first page and <len>
-covers the range of pages (upto 16 contiguous pages could be covered this
+covers the range of pages (up to 16 contiguous pages could be covered this
 way). There is a helper routine (blk_rq_map_sg) which drivers can use to build
 the sg list.
 
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ struct request {
 	.
 	int tag;	/* command tag associated with request */
 	void *special;  /* same as before */
-	char *buffer;   /* valid only for low memory buffers upto
+	char *buffer;   /* valid only for low memory buffers up to
 			 current_nr_sectors */
 	.
 	.

diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ the state as 0 when a cpu if offline and 1 when its online.
 	#To display the current cpu state.
 	#cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online
 
-Q: Why cant i remove CPU0 on some systems?
+Q: Why can't i remove CPU0 on some systems?
 A: Some architectures may have some special dependency on a certain CPU.
 
 For e.g in IA64 platforms we have ability to sent platform interrupts to the

diff --git a/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt b/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ image file and then arrange all these packets back to back in to one single
 file.
 This file is then copied to /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data.
 Once this file gets to the driver, the driver extracts packet_size data from
-the file and spreads it accross the physical memory in contiguous packet_sized
+the file and spreads it across the physical memory in contiguous packet_sized
 space.
 This method makes sure that all the packets get to the driver in a single operation.
 

diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-service-time.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-service-time.txt
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Algorithm
 =========
 
 dm-service-time adds the I/O size to 'in-flight-size' when the I/O is
-dispatched and substracts when completed.
+dispatched and subtracts when completed.
 Basically, dm-service-time selects a path having minimum service time
 which is calculated by:
 

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/fb/sm501fb.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/fb/sm501fb.txt
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ Optional properties:
 - edid : verbatim EDID data block describing attached display.
   Data from the detailed timing descriptor will be used to
   program the display controller.
-- little-endian: availiable on big endian systems, to
+- little-endian: available on big endian systems, to
   set different foreign endian.
-- big-endian: availiable on little endian systems, to
+- big-endian: available on little endian systems, to
   set different foreign endian.
 
 Example for MPC5200:

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/fsl-upm-nand.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/fsl-upm-nand.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Optional properties:
 - gpios : may specify optional GPIOs connected to the Ready-Not-Busy pins
 	(R/B#). For multi-chip devices, "n" GPIO definitions are required
 	according to the number of chips.
-- chip-delay : chip dependent delay for transfering data from array to
+- chip-delay : chip dependent delay for transferring data from array to
 	read registers (tR). Required if property "gpios" is not used
 	(R/B# pins not connected).
 

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/sja1000.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/sja1000.txt
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Optional properties:
 
 - nxp,no-comparator-bypass : Allows to disable the CAN input comperator.
 
-For futher information, please have a look to the SJA1000 data sheet.
+For further information, please have a look to the SJA1000 data sheet.
 
 Examples: