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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2016-04-26 16:41:21 -0700
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2016-04-28 07:51:59 -0600
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Documentation: fix common spelling mistakes
This fixes several spelling mistakes in the Documentation/ tree, which are caught by checkpatch.pl's spell checking. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-savu11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x72
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-picolcd2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi2
4 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-savu b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-savu
index f1e02a98bd9d..99fda67fce18 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-savu
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-savu
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@ Date: Mai 2012
Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the
press of a button. A profile is split into general settings and
- button settings. buttons holds informations about button layout.
- When written, this file lets one write the respective profile
- buttons to the mouse. The data has to be 47 bytes long.
+ button settings. The buttons variable holds information about
+ button layout. When written, this file lets one write the
+ respective profile buttons to the mouse. The data has to be
+ 47 bytes long.
The mouse will reject invalid data.
Which profile to write is determined by the profile number
contained in the data.
@@ -26,8 +27,8 @@ Date: Mai 2012
Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the
press of a button. A profile is split into general settings and
- button settings. profile holds informations like resolution, sensitivity
- and light effects.
+ button settings. A profile holds information like resolution,
+ sensitivity and light effects.
When written, this file lets one write the respective profile
settings back to the mouse. The data has to be 43 bytes long.
The mouse will reject invalid data.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7 b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7
index f893337570c1..ec27c6c9e737 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Contact: Linux on PowerPC Developer List <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Description:
Provides access to the binary "24x7 catalog" provided by the
hypervisor on POWER7 and 8 systems. This catalog lists events
- avaliable from the powerpc "hv_24x7" pmu. Its format is
+ available from the powerpc "hv_24x7" pmu. Its format is
documented here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jmesmon/catalog-24x7/master/hv-24x7-catalog.h
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-picolcd b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-picolcd
index 08579e7e1e89..98fd81ad76a1 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-picolcd
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-picolcd
@@ -39,5 +39,5 @@ Description: Make it possible to adjust defio refresh rate.
Note: As device can barely do 2 complete refreshes a second
it only makes sense to adjust this value if only one or two
tiles get changed and it's not appropriate to expect the application
- to flush it's tiny changes explicitely at higher than default rate.
+ to flush its tiny changes explicitly at higher than default rate.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi
index b4436cca97a8..c7fc72d4495c 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ Description:
to enable/disable/clear ACPI interrupts in user space, which can be
used to debug some ACPI interrupt storm issues.
- Note that only writting to VALID GPE/Fixed Event is allowed,
+ Note that only writing to VALID GPE/Fixed Event is allowed,
i.e. user can only change the status of runtime GPE and
Fixed Event with event handler installed.