diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt b/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt
index 1d8dccf04e7992..028614cdd06242 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ The query is performed via a call to pci_set_dma_mask():
int pci_set_dma_mask(struct pci_dev *pdev, u64 device_mask);
-The query for consistent allocations is performed via a a call to
+The query for consistent allocations is performed via a call to
pci_set_consistent_dma_mask():
int pci_set_consistent_dma_mask(struct pci_dev *pdev, u64 device_mask);
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl
index 065e8dc23e3adb..c684abf0d3b249 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl
@@ -1400,7 +1400,7 @@ and other resources, etc.
When it's known that HBA is in ready state but ATA/ATAPI
- device in in unknown state, reset only device.
+ device is in unknown state, reset only device.
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/usb.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/usb.tmpl
index fbc72d4dbc2512..143e5ff7deb8c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/usb.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/usb.tmpl
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ usbdev_ioctl (int fd, int ifno, unsigned request, void *param)
Synchronous I/O Support
Synchronous requests involve the kernel blocking
- until until the user mode request completes, either by
+ until the user mode request completes, either by
finishing successfully or by reporting an error.
In most cases this is the simplest way to use usbfs,
although as noted above it does prevent performing I/O
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
index f8092a891dd09d..820fee23696746 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ Or, for those who prefer a side-by-side listing:
Either way, the differences are quite small. Read-side locking moves
to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock, update-side locking moves from
-from a reader-writer lock to a simple spinlock, and a synchronize_rcu()
+a reader-writer lock to a simple spinlock, and a synchronize_rcu()
precedes the kfree().
However, there is one potential catch: the read-side and update-side
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
index e2f7dc6069c9f7..34bf8f60d8f827 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Some new queue property settings:
Sets two variables that limit the size of the request.
- The request queue's max_sectors, which is a soft size in
- in units of 512 byte sectors, and could be dynamically varied
+ units of 512 byte sectors, and could be dynamically varied
by the core kernel.
- The request queue's max_hw_sectors, which is a hard limit
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/overview.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/overview.txt
index 2050c9ffc629da..07236ed968da56 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-model/overview.txt
+++ b/Documentation/driver-model/overview.txt
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ the two.
The PCI bus layer freely accesses the fields of struct device. It knows about
the structure of struct pci_dev, and it should know the structure of struct
-device. Individual PCI device drivers that have been converted the the current
+device. Individual PCI device drivers that have been converted to the current
driver model generally do not and should not touch the fields of struct device,
unless there is a strong compelling reason to do so.
diff --git a/Documentation/exception.txt b/Documentation/exception.txt
index 3cb39ade290eae..2d5aded6424734 100644
--- a/Documentation/exception.txt
+++ b/Documentation/exception.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ int verify_area(int type, const void * addr, unsigned long size)
function (which has since been replaced by access_ok()).
This function verified that the memory area starting at address
-addr and of size size was accessible for the operation specified
+'addr' and of size 'size' was accessible for the operation specified
in type (read or write). To do this, verify_read had to look up the
virtual memory area (vma) that contained the address addr. In the
normal case (correctly working program), this test was successful.
diff --git a/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt b/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt
index f373df12ed4ce9..99ea58e65eff66 100644
--- a/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ from the console layer before unloading the driver. The VGA driver cannot be
unloaded if it is still bound to the console layer. (See
Documentation/console/console.txt for more information).
-This is more complicated in the case of the the framebuffer console (fbcon),
+This is more complicated in the case of the framebuffer console (fbcon),
because fbcon is an intermediate layer between the console and the drivers:
console ---> fbcon ---> fbdev drivers ---> hardware
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking
index 34380d4fbce399..d7099a9266fb3e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ own descendent. Moreover, there is exactly one cross-directory rename
Consider the object blocking the cross-directory rename. One
of its descendents is locked by cross-directory rename (otherwise we
-would again have an infinite set of of contended objects). But that
+would again have an infinite set of contended objects). But that
means that cross-directory rename is taking locks out of order. Due
to (2) the order hadn't changed since we had acquired filesystem lock.
But locking rules for cross-directory rename guarantee that we do not
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt
index 8c206f4e02508b..133e213ebb7219 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ the fdtable structure -
2. Reading of the fdtable as described above must be protected
by rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock().
-3. For any update to the the fd table, files->file_lock must
+3. For any update to the fd table, files->file_lock must
be held.
4. To look up the file structure given an fd, a reader
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt
index 3889a806624760..982645a1981de1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ FILES
/wbox
- The CPU to SPU communation mailbox. It is write-only can can be written
+ The CPU to SPU communation mailbox. It is write-only and can be written
in units of 32 bits. If the mailbox is full, write() will block and
poll can be used to wait for it becoming empty again. The possible
operations on an open wbox file are: write(2) If a count smaller than
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
index f9bcf9f4934af3..6dd050878a2087 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ size: The limit of allocated bytes for this tmpfs instance. The
nr_blocks: The same as size, but in blocks of PAGE_CACHE_SIZE.
nr_inodes: The maximum number of inodes for this instance. The default
is half of the number of your physical RAM pages, or (on a
- a machine with highmem) the number of lowmem RAM pages,
+ machine with highmem) the number of lowmem RAM pages,
whichever is the lower.
These parameters accept a suffix k, m or g for kilo, mega and giga and
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
index 2001abbc60e6f5..069cb10943001e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ iocharset=name -- Character set to use for converting between the
you should consider the following option instead.
utf8= -- UTF-8 is the filesystem safe version of Unicode that
- is used by the console. It can be be enabled for the
+ is used by the console. It can be enabled for the
filesystem with this option. If 'uni_xlate' gets set,
UTF-8 gets disabled.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index cd07c21b84005c..7737bfd03cf848 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ otherwise noted.
put_link: called by the VFS to release resources allocated by
follow_link(). The cookie returned by follow_link() is passed
- to to this method as the last parameter. It is used by
+ to this method as the last parameter. It is used by
filesystems such as NFS where page cache is not stable
(i.e. page that was installed when the symbolic link walk
started might not be in the page cache at the end of the
diff --git a/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/mmu-layout.txt b/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/mmu-layout.txt
index 11dcc567988734..db10250df6be66 100644
--- a/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/mmu-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/mmu-layout.txt
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ related kernel services:
(*) __debug_mmu.iamr[]
(*) __debug_mmu.damr[]
- These receive the current IAMR and DAMR contents. These can be viewed with with the _amr
+ These receive the current IAMR and DAMR contents. These can be viewed with the _amr
GDB macro:
(gdb) _amr
diff --git a/Documentation/ia64/efirtc.txt b/Documentation/ia64/efirtc.txt
index ede2c1e51cd7a9..057e6bebda8fa9 100644
--- a/Documentation/ia64/efirtc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/ia64/efirtc.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ to initialize the system view of the time during boot.
Because we wanted to minimize the impact on existing user-level apps using
the CMOS clock, we decided to expose an API that was very similar to the one
used today with the legacy RTC driver (driver/char/rtc.c). However, because
-EFI provides a simpler services, not all all ioctl() are available. Also
+EFI provides a simpler services, not all ioctl() are available. Also
new ioctl()s have been introduced for things that EFI provides but not the
legacy.
diff --git a/Documentation/ia64/mca.txt b/Documentation/ia64/mca.txt
index a71cc6a67ef7b6..f097c60cba1b9a 100644
--- a/Documentation/ia64/mca.txt
+++ b/Documentation/ia64/mca.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ by locks is indeterminate, including linked lists.
---
The complicated ia64 MCA process. All of this is mandated by Intel's
-specification for ia64 SAL, error recovery and and unwind, it is not as
+specification for ia64 SAL, error recovery and unwind, it is not as
if we have a choice here.
* MCA occurs on one cpu, usually due to a double bit memory error.
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ if we have a choice here.
INIT is less complicated than MCA. Pressing the nmi button or using
the equivalent command on the management console sends INIT to all
-cpus. SAL picks one one of the cpus as the monarch and the rest are
+cpus. SAL picks one of the cpus as the monarch and the rest are
slaves. All the OS INIT handlers are entered at approximately the same
time. The OS monarch prints the state of all tasks and returns, after
which the slaves return and the system resumes.
diff --git a/Documentation/input/input.txt b/Documentation/input/input.txt
index fabb8235c279b3..ff8cea0225f90b 100644
--- a/Documentation/input/input.txt
+++ b/Documentation/input/input.txt
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ generated in the kernel straight to the program, with timestamps. The
API is still evolving, but should be useable now. It's described in
section 5.
- This should be the way for GPM and X to get keyboard and mouse mouse
+ This should be the way for GPM and X to get keyboard and mouse
events. It allows for multihead in X without any specific multihead
kernel support. The event codes are the same on all architectures and
are hardware independent.
diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.fax b/Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.fax
index 7e5731319e30d6..9c8c6d914ec797 100644
--- a/Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.fax
+++ b/Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.fax
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Structure T30_s description:
If the HL-driver receives ISDN_CMD_FAXCMD, all needed information
is in this struct set by the LL.
To signal information to the LL, the HL-driver has to set the
- the parameters and use ISDN_STAT_FAXIND.
+ parameters and use ISDN_STAT_FAXIND.
(Please refer to INTERFACE)
Structure T30_s:
diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/README.hysdn b/Documentation/isdn/README.hysdn
index 56cc59df1fb75a..eeca11f00ccd02 100644
--- a/Documentation/isdn/README.hysdn
+++ b/Documentation/isdn/README.hysdn
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
$Id: README.hysdn,v 1.3.6.1 2001/02/10 14:41:19 kai Exp $
The hysdn driver has been written by
-by Werner Cornelius (werner@isdn4linux.de or werner@titro.de)
+Werner Cornelius (werner@isdn4linux.de or werner@titro.de)
for Hypercope GmbH Aachen Germany. Hypercope agreed to publish this driver
under the GNU General Public License.
diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index 08bafa8c1caa91..99f2d4d4bf7ddb 100644
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ If die() is called, and it happens to be a thread with pid 0 or 1, or die()
is called inside interrupt context or die() is called and panic_on_oops is set,
the system will boot into the dump-capture kernel.
-On powererpc systems when a soft-reset is generated, die() is called by all cpus and the system system will boot into the dump-capture kernel.
+On powererpc systems when a soft-reset is generated, die() is called by all cpus and the system will boot into the dump-capture kernel.
For testing purposes, you can trigger a crash by using "ALT-SysRq-c",
"echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger or write a module to force the panic.
diff --git a/Documentation/keys.txt b/Documentation/keys.txt
index 693ef0c63b9cfc..3da586bc7859a3 100644
--- a/Documentation/keys.txt
+++ b/Documentation/keys.txt
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are:
Note that this setting is inherited across fork/exec.
- [1] The default default is: the thread keyring if there is one, otherwise
+ [1] The default is: the thread keyring if there is one, otherwise
the process keyring if there is one, otherwise the session keyring if
there is one, otherwise the user default session keyring.
diff --git a/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt b/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt
index d5d3f064f5522a..1c41db21d3c165 100644
--- a/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ switch to another mode once Linux has started.
The first 3 parameters of this sub-option should be obvious: ,
and give the dimensions of the screen and the number of
-planes (depth). The depth is is the logarithm to base 2 of the number
+planes (depth). The depth is the logarithm to base 2 of the number
of colors possible. (Or, the other way round: The number of colors is
2^depth).
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index a60f3ce474e38f..994355b0cd1908 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ effectively random order, despite the write barrier issued by CPU 1:
In the above example, CPU 2 perceives that B is 7, despite the load of *C
-(which would be B) coming after the the LOAD of C.
+(which would be B) coming after the LOAD of C.
If, however, a data dependency barrier were to be placed between the load of C
and the load of *C (ie: B) on CPU 2:
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
index dc942eaf490fb8..de809e58092fa0 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
@@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@ Changing a Bond's Configuration
files located in /sys/class/net//bonding
The names of these files correspond directly with the command-
-line parameters described elsewhere in in this file, and, with the
+line parameters described elsewhere in this file, and, with the
exception of arp_ip_target, they accept the same values. To see the
current setting, simply cat the appropriate file.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt b/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt
index f1f9e8afe1eb8f..64896470e279b7 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ ethernet@crystal.cirrus.com) and request that you be registered for automatic
software-update notification.
Cirrus Logic maintains a web page at http://www.cirrus.com with the
-the latest drivers and technical publications.
+latest drivers and technical publications.
6.4 Current maintainer
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/decnet.txt b/Documentation/networking/decnet.txt
index e6c39c5831f5f4..badb7480ea6282 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/decnet.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/decnet.txt
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ ethernet address of your ethernet card has to be set according to the DECnet
address of the node in order for it to be autoconfigured (and then appear in
/proc/net/decnet_dev). There is a utility available at the above
FTP sites called dn2ethaddr which can compute the correct ethernet
-address to use. The address can be set by ifconfig either before at
+address to use. The address can be set by ifconfig either before or
at the time the device is brought up. If you are using RedHat you can
add the line:
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt b/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt
index 71fe15af356cda..5c0a5cc0399819 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ Additional Configurations
As an example, if you install the e1000 driver for two PRO/1000 adapters
(eth0 and eth1) and set the speed and duplex to 10full and 100half, add
- the following to modules.conf or or modprobe.conf:
+ the following to modules.conf or modprobe.conf:
alias eth0 e1000
alias eth1 e1000
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt b/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt
index bd528ffbeb4b6c..4bde53e85f3f02 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ However, you may want to set PCI latency timer to 248.
#setpci -d 17d5:* LATENCY_TIMER=f8
For detailed description of the PCI registers, please see Xframe User Guide.
b. Use 2-buffer mode. This results in large performance boost on
-on certain platforms(eg. SGI Altix, IBM xSeries).
+certain platforms(eg. SGI Altix, IBM xSeries).
c. Ensure Receive Checksum offload is enabled. Use "ethtool -K ethX" command to
set/verify this option.
d. Enable NAPI feature(in kernel configuration Device Drivers ---> Network
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt b/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt
index 82ce5547db476b..4e1cc745ec63de 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ Solution: In /proc/pci search for the following entry:
www.syskonnect.com
Some COMPAQ machines have problems dealing with PCI under Linux.
- Linux. This problem is described in the 'PCI howto' document
+ This problem is described in the 'PCI howto' document
(included in some distributions or available from the
web, e.g. at 'www.linux.org').
diff --git a/Documentation/pci-error-recovery.txt b/Documentation/pci-error-recovery.txt
index 634d3e5b575691..6650af43252301 100644
--- a/Documentation/pci-error-recovery.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pci-error-recovery.txt
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ is STEP 6 (Permanent Failure).
>>> a value of 0xff on read, and writes will be dropped. If the device
>>> driver attempts more than 10K I/O's to a frozen adapter, it will
>>> assume that the device driver has gone into an infinite loop, and
->>> it will panic the the kernel. There doesn't seem to be any other
+>>> it will panic the kernel. There doesn't seem to be any other
>>> way of stopping a device driver that insists on spinning on I/O.
STEP 2: MMIO Enabled
diff --git a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
index a99c176c31d266..9ea2208b43b5f7 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ instead set the PF_NOFREEZE process flag when creating the thread (and
be very carefull).
-Q: What is the difference between between "platform", "shutdown" and
+Q: What is the difference between "platform", "shutdown" and
"firmware" in /sys/power/disk?
A:
diff --git a/Documentation/prio_tree.txt b/Documentation/prio_tree.txt
index 2fbb0c49bc5b6d..3aa68f9a117b19 100644
--- a/Documentation/prio_tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/prio_tree.txt
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ path which is not desirable. Hence, we do not optimize the height of the
heap-and-size indexed overflow-sub-trees using prio_tree->index_bits.
Instead the overflow sub-trees are indexed using full BITS_PER_LONG bits
of size_index. This may lead to skewed sub-trees because most of the
-higher significant bits of the size_index are likely to be be 0 (zero). In
+higher significant bits of the size_index are likely to be 0 (zero). In
the example above, all 3 overflow-sub-trees are skewed. This may marginally
affect the performance. However, processes rarely map many vmas with the
same start_vm_pgoff but different end_vm_pgoffs. Therefore, we normally
diff --git a/Documentation/rpc-cache.txt b/Documentation/rpc-cache.txt
index 21fb09ce4cf286..8a382bea6808ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/rpc-cache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rpc-cache.txt
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Creating a Cache
structure
void cache_put(struct kref *)
This is called when the last reference to an item is
- is dropped. The pointer passed is to the 'ref' field
+ dropped. The pointer passed is to the 'ref' field
in the cache_head. cache_put should release any
references create by 'cache_init' and, if CACHE_VALID
is set, any references created by cache_update.
diff --git a/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt b/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt
index c051ba27670dcd..4dd25ee549e9d1 100644
--- a/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt
+++ b/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt
@@ -1085,8 +1085,7 @@ Notes
-----
Addresses & values in the VM debugger are always hex never decimal
Address ranges are of the format - or .
-e.g. The address range 0x2000 to 0x3000 can be described described as
-2000-3000 or 2000.1000
+e.g. The address range 0x2000 to 0x3000 can be described as 2000-3000 or 2000.1000
The VM Debugger is case insensitive.
@@ -1413,7 +1412,7 @@ SMP Specific commands
To find out how many cpus you have
Q CPUS displays all the CPU's available to your virtual machine
To find the cpu that the current cpu VM debugger commands are being directed at do
-Q CPU to change the current cpu cpu VM debugger commands are being directed at do
+Q CPU to change the current cpu VM debugger commands are being directed at do
CPU
On a SMP guest issue a command to all CPUs try prefixing the command with cpu all.
@@ -2184,7 +2183,7 @@ ps -aux | grep gdb
kill -SIGSEGV
or alternatively use killall -SIGSEGV gdb if you have the killall command.
Now look at the core dump.
-./gdb ./gdb core
+./gdb core
Displays the following
GNU gdb 4.18
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -2477,7 +2476,7 @@ Lcrash is a perfectly normal program,however, it requires 2
additional files, Kerntypes which is built using a patch to the
linux kernel sources in the linux root directory & the System.map.
-Kerntypes is an an objectfile whose sole purpose in life
+Kerntypes is an objectfile whose sole purpose in life
is to provide stabs debug info to lcrash, to do this
Kerntypes is built from kerntypes.c which just includes the most commonly
referenced header files used when debugging, lcrash can then read the
diff --git a/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt b/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt
index 389e0e56e38d93..000230cd26dbe4 100644
--- a/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Predefined views for hex/ascii, sprintf and raw binary data are provided.
It is also possible to define other views. The content of
a view can be inspected simply by reading the corresponding debugfs file.
-All debug logs have an an actual debug level (range from 0 to 6).
+All debug logs have an actual debug level (range from 0 to 6).
The default level is 3. Event and Exception functions have a 'level'
parameter. Only debug entries with a level that is lower or equal
than the actual level are written to the log. This means, when
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ The input_proc can be used to implement functionality when it is written to
the view (e.g. like with 'echo "0" > /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/dasd/level).
For header_proc there can be used the default function
-debug_dflt_header_fn() which is defined in in debug.h.
+debug_dflt_header_fn() which is defined in debug.h.
and which produces the same header output as the predefined views.
E.g:
00 00964419409:440761 2 - 00 88023ec
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.1992-1997 b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.1992-1997
index dc88ee2ab73d25..6faad7e6417c89 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.1992-1997
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.1992-1997
@@ -1214,7 +1214,7 @@ Thu Jul 21 10:37:39 1994 Eric Youngdale (eric@esp22)
* sr.c(sr_open): Do not allow opens with write access.
-Mon Jul 18 09:51:22 1994 1994 Eric Youngdale (eric@esp22)
+Mon Jul 18 09:51:22 1994 Eric Youngdale (eric@esp22)
* Linux 1.1.31 released.
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/st.txt b/Documentation/scsi/st.txt
index 66ba3ad0ce068b..5ff65b184265f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/st.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/st.txt
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ BOOT TIME CONFIGURATION
If the driver is compiled into the kernel, the same parameters can be
also set using, e.g., the LILO command line. The preferred syntax is
-is to use the same keyword used when loading as module but prepended
+to use the same keyword used when loading as module but prepended
with 'st.'. For instance, to set the maximum number of scatter/gather
segments, the parameter 'st.max_sg_segs=xx' should be used (xx is the
number of scatter/gather segments).
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl b/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl
index 4807ef79a94d87..077fbe25ebf44b 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl
@@ -5486,7 +5486,7 @@ struct _snd_pcm_runtime {
Power Management
- If the chip is supposed to work with with suspend/resume
+ If the chip is supposed to work with suspend/resume
functions, you need to add the power-management codes to the
driver. The additional codes for the power-management should be
ifdef'ed with
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/AWE32 b/Documentation/sound/oss/AWE32
index cb179bfeb52248..b5908a66ff5504 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/oss/AWE32
+++ b/Documentation/sound/oss/AWE32
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ SB32.
install awe_wave /sbin/modprobe --first-time -i awe_wave && /usr/local/bin/sfxload PATH_TO_SOUND_BANK_FILE
You will of course have to change "PATH_TO_SOUND_BANK_FILE" to the full
- path of of the sound bank file. That will enable the Sound Blaster and AWE
+ path of the sound bank file. That will enable the Sound Blaster and AWE
wave synthesis. To play midi files you should get one of these programs if
you don't already have them:
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/solo1 b/Documentation/sound/oss/solo1
index 6f53d407d02745..95c4c83422b32d 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/oss/solo1
+++ b/Documentation/sound/oss/solo1
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ is at least one report of it working on later silicon.
The chip behaves differently than described in the data sheet,
likely due to a chip bug. Working around this would require
the help of ESS (for example by publishing an errata sheet),
-but ESS has not done so so far.
+but ESS has not done so far.
Also, the chip only supports 24 bit addresses for recording,
which means it cannot work on some Alpha mainboards.
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/ultrasound b/Documentation/sound/oss/ultrasound
index 32cd50478b3696..eed331c738a3a9 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/oss/ultrasound
+++ b/Documentation/sound/oss/ultrasound
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ db16 ???
no_wave_dma option
This option defaults to a value of 0, which allows the Ultrasound wavetable
-DSP to use DMA for for playback and downloading samples. This is the same
+DSP to use DMA for playback and downloading samples. This is the same
as the old behaviour. If set to 1, no DMA is needed for downloading samples,
and allows owners of a GUS MAX to make use of simultaneous digital audio
(/dev/dsp), MIDI, and wavetable playback.
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/vwsnd b/Documentation/sound/oss/vwsnd
index a6ea0a1df9e41b..4c6cbdb3c54809 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/oss/vwsnd
+++ b/Documentation/sound/oss/vwsnd
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ boxes.
The Visual Workstation has an Analog Devices AD1843 "SoundComm" audio
codec chip. The AD1843 is accessed through the Cobalt I/O ASIC, also
-known as Lithium. This driver programs both both chips.
+known as Lithium. This driver programs both chips.
==============================================================================
QUICK CONFIGURATION
diff --git a/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx b/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx
index 9c45f3df2e1844..a1e0ee20f595cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx
+++ b/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx
@@ -124,12 +124,12 @@ use a value of 8.
The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.timeout_microsecs" fields is used to efficiently handle
trailing bytes in the SSP receiver fifo. The correct value for this field is
dependent on the SPI bus speed ("spi_board_info.max_speed_hz") and the specific
-slave device. Please note the the PXA2xx SSP 1 does not support trailing byte
+slave device. Please note that the PXA2xx SSP 1 does not support trailing byte
timeouts and must busy-wait any trailing bytes.
The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.enable_loopback" field is used to place the SSP porting
into internal loopback mode. In this mode the SSP controller internally
-connects the SSPTX pin the the SSPRX pin. This is useful for initial setup
+connects the SSPTX pin to the SSPRX pin. This is useful for initial setup
testing.
The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.cs_control" field is used to point to a board specific
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ DMA and PIO I/O Support
-----------------------
The pxa2xx_spi driver support both DMA and interrupt driven PIO message
transfers. The driver defaults to PIO mode and DMA transfers must enabled by
-setting the "enable_dma" flag in the "pxa2xx_spi_master" structure and and
+setting the "enable_dma" flag in the "pxa2xx_spi_master" structure and
ensuring that the "pxa2xx_spi_chip.dma_burst_size" field is non-zero. The DMA
mode support both coherent and stream based DMA mappings.
diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
index 068732d32276b1..72795796b13d64 100644
--- a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
+++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ NON-STATIC CONFIGURATIONS
Developer boards often play by different rules than product boards, and one
example is the potential need to hotplug SPI devices and/or controllers.
-For those cases you might need to use use spi_busnum_to_master() to look
+For those cases you might need to use spi_busnum_to_master() to look
up the spi bus master, and will likely need spi_new_device() to provide the
board info based on the board that was hotplugged. Of course, you'd later
call at least spi_unregister_device() when that board is removed.
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ As soon as it enters probe(), the driver may issue I/O requests to
the SPI device using "struct spi_message". When remove() returns,
the driver guarantees that it won't submit any more such messages.
- - An spi_message is a sequence of of protocol operations, executed
+ - An spi_message is a sequence of protocol operations, executed
as one atomic sequence. SPI driver controls include:
+ when bidirectional reads and writes start ... by how its
diff --git a/Documentation/unshare.txt b/Documentation/unshare.txt
index 90a5e9e5bef1da..a8643513a5f6cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/unshare.txt
+++ b/Documentation/unshare.txt
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ items:
a pointer to it.
7.4) Appropriately modify architecture specific code to register the
- the new system call.
+ new system call.
8) Test Specification
---------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt b/Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt
index 6711441930938c..9cf83e8c27b8f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ one or more packets could finish before an error stops further endpoint I/O.
hardware problems such as bad devices (including firmware) or cables.
(**) This is also one of several codes that different kinds of host
-controller use to to indicate a transfer has failed because of device
+controller use to indicate a transfer has failed because of device
disconnect. In the interval before the hub driver starts disconnect
processing, devices may receive such fault reports for every request.
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt b/Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt
index cd6fb4b58e1fce..6a790754e963ba 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ index, the ioctl returns -1 and sets errno to -EINVAL.
HIDIOCGDEVINFO - struct hiddev_devinfo (read)
Gets a hiddev_devinfo structure which describes the device.
-HIDIOCGSTRING - struct struct hiddev_string_descriptor (read/write)
+HIDIOCGSTRING - struct hiddev_string_descriptor (read/write)
Gets a string descriptor from the device. The caller must fill in the
"index" field to indicate which descriptor should be returned.
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt b/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt
index 2899628f9daf2e..8dc2bacc8f1f4b 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ Cypress M8 CY4601 Family Serial Driver
-Cypress HID->COM RS232 adapter
Note: Cypress Semiconductor claims no affiliation with the
- the hid->com device.
+ hid->com device.
Most devices using chipsets under the CY4601 family should
work with the driver. As long as they stay true to the CY4601
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ Options supported:
debug - extra verbose debugging info
(default: 0; nonzero enables)
use_lowlatency - use low_latency flag to speed up tty layer
- when reading from from the device.
+ when reading from the device.
(default: 0; nonzero enables)
See http://www.uuhaus.de/linux/palmconnect.html for up-to-date
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/README.pvrusb2 b/Documentation/video4linux/README.pvrusb2
index c73a32c34528d8..a4b7ae800866c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/README.pvrusb2
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/README.pvrusb2
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Source file list / functional overview:
pvrusb2-i2c-core.[ch] - This module provides an implementation of a
kernel-friendly I2C adaptor driver, through which other external
I2C client drivers (e.g. msp3400, tuner, lirc) may connect and
- operate corresponding chips within the the pvrusb2 device. It is
+ operate corresponding chips within the pvrusb2 device. It is
through here that other V4L modules can reach into this driver to
operate specific pieces (and those modules are in turn driven by
glue logic which is coordinated by pvrusb2-hdw, doled out by
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran b/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran
index 040a2c841ae963..deb218f77adb05 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ tv broadcast formats all aver the world.
The CCIR defines parameters needed for broadcasting the signal.
The CCIR has defined different standards: A,B,D,E,F,G,D,H,I,K,K1,L,M,N,...
-The CCIR says not much about about the colorsystem used !!!
+The CCIR says not much about the colorsystem used !!!
And talking about a colorsystem says not to much about how it is broadcast.
The CCIR standards A,E,F are not used any more.
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa b/Documentation/vm/numa
index 4b8db1bd3b78e5..e93ad9425e2a16 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/numa
+++ b/Documentation/vm/numa
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The initial port includes NUMAizing the bootmem allocator code by
encapsulating all the pieces of information into a bootmem_data_t
structure. Node specific calls have been added to the allocator.
In theory, any platform which uses the bootmem allocator should
-be able to to put the bootmem and mem_map data structures anywhere
+be able to put the bootmem and mem_map data structures anywhere
it deems best.
Each node's page allocation data structures have also been encapsulated