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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ppi | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-profiling | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/HOWTO | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dontdiff | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fault-injection/notifier-error-inject.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hid/uhid.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/pmbus | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/input/alps.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Cards | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Sound-FAQ | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/frontswap.txt | 2 |
18 files changed, 30 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg b/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg index 7e7e07a82e0e..bb820be48179 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 7fc2997b23a6..9d43e7670841 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> 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 97a003ee058b..7d1435bc976c 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/ABI/testing/sysfs-profiling b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-profiling index b02d8b8c173a..8a8e466eb2c0 100644 --- 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 <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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 index 59c080f084ef..a9f288ff54f9 100644 --- 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 index 6f706aca2049..f8ebcde43b17 100644 --- 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 index ad86fb86c9a0..0188903bc9e1 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/dontdiff b/Documentation/dontdiff index 74c25c8d8884..b89a739a3276 100644 --- 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 index c83526c364e5..09adabef513f 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 4627c4241ece..3c741214dfbb 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/hwmon/pmbus b/Documentation/hwmon/pmbus index f90f99920cc5..3d3a0f97f966 100644 --- 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 index ae8ba9a74ce1..3262b6e4d686 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 3fb39e0116b4..69372fb98cf8 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/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt index 3d8a97747f77..99b57abddf8a 100644 --- 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 index 01804f216312..49e4f770864a 100644 --- a/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version.c +++ b/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version.c @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ out: } /*************************************************************************** - * 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 db833ced2cb8..a8fb6e2d3c8b 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/video4linux/bttv/Sound-FAQ b/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Sound-FAQ index 395f6c6fdd98..d3f1d7783d1c 100644 --- 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 index 5ef2d1366425..c71a019be600 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 |