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…/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina: "Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead code elimination." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) HOWTO: fix double words typo x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init propagate name change to comments in kernel source doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs treewide: Fix typos in various drivers treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments. Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments. eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous". various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments. doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments ...
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diff --git 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
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Contact:	Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
 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
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Contact:	[email protected]
 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/ABI/testing/sysfs-profiling b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-profiling
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-What:		/sys/kernel/profile
+What:		/sys/kernel/profiling
 Date:		September 2008
 Contact:	Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
 Description:
-		/sys/kernel/profile is the runtime equivalent
+		/sys/kernel/profiling is the runtime equivalent
 		of the boot-time profile= option.
 
 		You can get the same effect running:
 
-			echo 2 > /sys/kernel/profile
+			echo 2 > /sys/kernel/profiling
 
 		as you would by issuing profile=2 on the boot
 		command line.
diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ Differences between the kernel community and corporate structures
 
 The kernel community works differently than most traditional corporate
 development environments.  Here are a list of things that you can try to
-do to try to avoid problems:
+do to avoid problems:
   Good things to say regarding your proposed changes:
     - "This solves multiple problems."
     - "This deletes 2000 lines of code."

diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ int dbg;
 int print_delays;
 int print_io_accounting;
 int print_task_context_switch_counts;
-__u64 stime, utime;
 
 #define PRINTF(fmt, arg...) {			\
 	    if (dbg) {				\

diff --git 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/dontdiff b/Documentation/dontdiff
@@ -181,7 +181,6 @@ modversions.h*
 nconf
 ncscope.*
 offset.h
-offsets.h
 oui.c*
 page-types
 parse.c

diff --git 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
@@ -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/hwmon/pmbus b/Documentation/hwmon/pmbus
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ Sysfs entries
 
 When probing the chip, the driver identifies which PMBus registers are
 supported, and determines available sensors from this information.
-Attribute files only exist if respective sensors are suported by the chip.
+Attribute files only exist if respective sensors are supported by the chip.
 Labels are provided to inform the user about the sensor associated with
 a given sysfs entry.
 

diff --git 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
@@ -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/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ Example kernel-doc function comment:
  * comment lines.
  *
  * The longer description can have multiple paragraphs.
+ *
+ * Return: Describe the return value of foobar.
  */
 
 The short description following the subject can span multiple lines
@@ -78,6 +80,8 @@ If a function parameter is "..." (varargs), it should be listed in
 kernel-doc notation as:
  * @...: description
 
+The return value, if any, should be described in a dedicated section
+named "Return".
 
 Example kernel-doc data structure comment.
 
@@ -222,6 +226,9 @@ only a "*").
 "section header:" names must be unique per function (or struct,
 union, typedef, enum).
 
+Use the section header "Return" for sections describing the return value
+of a function.
+
 Avoid putting a spurious blank line after the function name, or else the
 description will be repeated!
 
@@ -237,21 +244,21 @@ patterns, which are highlighted appropriately.
 NOTE 1:  The multi-line descriptive text you provide does *not* recognize
 line breaks, so if you try to format some text nicely, as in:
 
-  Return codes
+  Return:
     0 - cool
     1 - invalid arg
     2 - out of memory
 
 this will all run together and produce:
 
-  Return codes 0 - cool 1 - invalid arg 2 - out of memory
+  Return: 0 - cool 1 - invalid arg 2 - out of memory
 
 NOTE 2:  If the descriptive text you provide has lines that begin with
 some phrase followed by a colon, each of those phrases will be taken as
 a new section heading, which means you should similarly try to avoid text
 like:
 
-  Return codes:
+  Return:
     0: cool
     1: invalid arg
     2: out of memory

diff --git 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
@@ -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/video4linux/bttv/Sound-FAQ b/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Sound-FAQ
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ card installed, you might to check out if you can read these registers
 values used by the windows driver.  A tool to do this is available
 from ftp://telepresence.dmem.strath.ac.uk/pub/bt848/winutil, but it
 does'nt work with bt878 boards according to some reports I received.
-Another one with bt878 suport is available from
+Another one with bt878 support is available from
 http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/Files/btspy2.00.zip
 
 You might also dig around in the *.ini files of the Windows applications.

diff --git 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

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3596,7 +3596,7 @@ S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/input/touchscreen/htcpen.c
 
 HUGETLB FILESYSTEM
-M:	William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
+M:	Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@holomorphy.com>
 S:	Maintained
 F:	fs/hugetlbfs/
 

diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -180,6 +180,10 @@ CONFIGURING the kernel:
                         with questions already answered.
                         Additionally updates the dependencies.
 
+     "make olddefconfig"
+                        Like above, but sets new symbols to their default
+                        values without prompting.
+
      "make defconfig"   Create a ./.config file by using the default
                         symbol values from either arch/$ARCH/defconfig
                         or arch/$ARCH/configs/${PLATFORM}_defconfig,

diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/mmzone.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/mmzone.h
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ PLAT_NODE_DATA_LOCALNR(unsigned long p, int n)
     ((unsigned long)__va(NODE_DATA(kvaddr_to_nid(kaddr))->node_start_pfn  \
 			 << PAGE_SHIFT))
 
-/* XXX: FIXME -- wli */
+/* XXX: FIXME -- nyc */
 #define kern_addr_valid(kaddr)	(0)
 
 #define virt_to_page(kaddr)	pfn_to_page(__pa(kaddr) >> PAGE_SHIFT)

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c
@@ -354,8 +354,7 @@ static dma_addr_t alpha_pci_map_page(struct device *dev, struct page *page,
 	struct pci_dev *pdev = alpha_gendev_to_pci(dev);
 	int dac_allowed;
 
-	if (dir == PCI_DMA_NONE)
-		BUG();
+	BUG_ON(dir == PCI_DMA_NONE);
 
 	dac_allowed = pdev ? pci_dac_dma_supported(pdev, pdev->dma_mask) : 0; 
 	return pci_map_single_1(pdev, (char *)page_address(page) + offset, 
@@ -378,8 +377,7 @@ static void alpha_pci_unmap_page(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr,
 	struct pci_iommu_arena *arena;
 	long dma_ofs, npages;
 
-	if (dir == PCI_DMA_NONE)
-		BUG();
+	BUG_ON(dir == PCI_DMA_NONE);
 
 	if (dma_addr >= __direct_map_base
 	    && dma_addr < __direct_map_base + __direct_map_size) {
@@ -662,8 +660,7 @@ static int alpha_pci_map_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
 	dma_addr_t max_dma;
 	int dac_allowed;
 
-	if (dir == PCI_DMA_NONE)
-		BUG();
+	BUG_ON(dir == PCI_DMA_NONE);
 
 	dac_allowed = dev ? pci_dac_dma_supported(pdev, pdev->dma_mask) : 0;
 
@@ -742,8 +739,7 @@ static void alpha_pci_unmap_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
 	dma_addr_t max_dma;
 	dma_addr_t fbeg, fend;
 
-	if (dir == PCI_DMA_NONE)
-		BUG();
+	BUG_ON(dir == PCI_DMA_NONE);
 
 	if (! alpha_mv.mv_pci_tbi)
 		return;

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test.c b/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test.c
@@ -1598,7 +1598,7 @@ static int __init run_all_tests(void)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	pr_info("Begining kprobe tests...\n");
+	pr_info("Beginning kprobe tests...\n");
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL
 

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-netx/xc.c b/arch/arm/mach-netx/xc.c
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ int xc_request_firmware(struct xc *x)
 	if (head->magic != 0x4e657458) {
 		if (head->magic == 0x5874654e) {
 			dev_err(x->dev,
-			    "firmware magic is 'XteN'. Endianess problems?\n");
+			    "firmware magic is 'XteN'. Endianness problems?\n");
 			ret = -ENODEV;
 			goto exit_release_firmware;
 		}

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/include/mach/bast-map.h b/arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/include/mach/bast-map.h
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
 
 
 /* 0xE0000000 contains the IO space that is split by speed and
- * wether the access is for 8 or 16bit IO... this ensures that
+ * whether the access is for 8 or 16bit IO... this ensures that
  * the correct access is made
  *
  * 0x10000000 of space, partitioned as so:

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/include/mach/dma.h b/arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/include/mach/dma.h
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ enum s3c2410_dma_state {
  *
  * This represents the state of the DMA engine, wrt to the loaded / running
  * transfers. Since we don't have any way of knowing exactly the state of
- * the DMA transfers, we need to know the state to make decisions on wether
+ * the DMA transfers, we need to know the state to make decisions on whether
  * we can
  *
  * S3C2410_DMA_NONE

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/include/mach/vr1000-map.h b/arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/include/mach/vr1000-map.h
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 #define VR1000_VA_PC104_IRQMASK VR1000_IOADDR(0x00600000)
 
 /* 0xE0000000 contains the IO space that is split by speed and
- * wether the access is for 8 or 16bit IO... this ensures that
+ * whether the access is for 8 or 16bit IO... this ensures that
  * the correct access is made
  *
  * 0x10000000 of space, partitioned as so:

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/pm.c b/arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/pm.c
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ void s3c_pm_configure_extint(void)
 	int pin;
 
 	/* for each of the external interrupts (EINT0..EINT15) we
-	 * need to check wether it is an external interrupt source,
+	 * need to check whether it is an external interrupt source,
 	 * and then configure it as an input if it is not
 	*/
 

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/Kconfig
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ config TEGRA_AHB
 	help
 	  Adds AHB configuration functionality for NVIDIA Tegra SoCs,
 	  which controls AHB bus master arbitration and some
-	  perfomance parameters(priority, prefech size).
+	  performance parameters(priority, prefech size).
 
 config TEGRA_EMC_SCALING_ENABLE
 	bool "Enable scaling the memory frequency"

diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/dma.c b/arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/dma.c
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ static int s3c2410_dma_start(struct s3c2410_dma_chan *chan)
 
 	chan->state = S3C2410_DMA_RUNNING;
 
-	/* check wether there is anything to load, and if not, see
+	/* check whether there is anything to load, and if not, see
 	 * if we can find anything to load
 	 */
 

diff --git a/arch/blackfin/mach-bf609/Kconfig b/arch/blackfin/mach-bf609/Kconfig
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ config SEC_IRQ_PRIORITY_LEVELS
 	default 7
 	range 0 7
 	help
-	  Devide the total number of interrupt priority levels into sub-levels.
+	  Divide the total number of interrupt priority levels into sub-levels.
 	  There is 2 ^ (SEC_IRQ_PRIORITY_LEVELS + 1) different levels.
 
 endmenu

diff --git a/arch/blackfin/mm/sram-alloc.c b/arch/blackfin/mm/sram-alloc.c
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ static irqreturn_t l2_ecc_err(int irq, void *dev_id)
 {
 	int status;
 
-	printk(KERN_ERR "L2 ecc error happend\n");
+	printk(KERN_ERR "L2 ecc error happened\n");
 	status = bfin_read32(L2CTL0_STAT);
 	if (status & 0x1)
 		printk(KERN_ERR "Core channel error type:0x%x, addr:0x%x\n",