Fix typos in Documentation/: 'H'-'M'

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'H'-'M'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2026-05-01 15:00:59 -07:00 · 2006-10-03 22:50:39 +02:00
parent a2ffd27516
commit 2fe0ae78c6
39 changed files with 62 additions and 62 deletions
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ RTC
 Watchdog
 --------

-  The watchdog harware is the same as the S3C2410, and is supported by
+  The watchdog hardware is the same as the S3C2410, and is supported by
  the s3c2410_wdt driver.


@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The goal of the deadline io scheduler is to attempt to guarantee a start
 service time for a request. As we focus mainly on read latencies, this is
 tunable. When a read request first enters the io scheduler, it is assigned
 a deadline that is the current time + the read_expire value in units of
-miliseconds.
+milliseconds.


 write_expire	(in ms)
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ selected for each specific use.

 Basically, it's the following flow graph:

-CPU can be set to switch independetly	 |	   CPU can only be set
+CPU can be set to switch independently	 |	   CPU can only be set
      within specific "limits"		 |       to specific frequencies

                                 "CPUfreq policy"
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ OpenManage and Dell Update packages (DUP).
 Libsmbios can also be used to update BIOS on Dell systems go to
 http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/ for details.

-Dell_RBU driver supports BIOS update using the monilothic image and packetized
-image methods. In case of moniolithic the driver allocates a contiguous chunk
+Dell_RBU driver supports BIOS update using the monolithic image and packetized
+image methods. In case of monolithic the driver allocates a contiguous chunk
 of physical pages having the BIOS image. In case of packetized the app
 using the driver breaks the image in to packets of fixed sizes and the driver
 would place each packet in contiguous physical memory. The driver also
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ device. The following device classes have been identified:

 Each device class defines a set of semantics and a programming interface
 that devices of that class adhere to. Device drivers are the
-implemention of that programming interface for a particular device on
+implementation of that programming interface for a particular device on
 a particular bus. 

 Device classes are agnostic with respect to what bus a device resides
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ This application requires the following to function properly as of now.
 	  descrambler to function,
 	  eg: $ ca_zap channels.conf "TMC"

-	(d) Hopeflly Enjoy your favourite subscribed channel as you do with
+	(d) Hopefully enjoy your favourite subscribed channel as you do with
 	  a FTA card.

 (3) Currently ca_zap, and dst_test, both are meant for demonstration
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Table of contents
 - Using NTFS volume and stripe sets
  - The Device-Mapper driver
  - The Software RAID / MD driver
-  - Limitiations when using the MD driver
+  - Limitations when using the MD driver
 - ChangeLog


@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ There is plenty of additional information on the linux-ntfs web site
 at http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/

 The web site has a lot of additional information, such as a comprehensive
-FAQ, documentation on the NTFS on-disk format, informaiton on the Linux-NTFS
+FAQ, documentation on the NTFS on-disk format, information on the Linux-NTFS
 userspace utilities, etc.


@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ Software RAID / MD driver.  For which you need to set up your /etc/raidtab
 appropriately (see man 5 raidtab).

 Linear volume sets, i.e. linear raid, as well as stripe sets, i.e. raid level
-0, have been tested and work fine (though see section "Limitiations when using
+0, have been tested and work fine (though see section "Limitations when using
 the MD driver with NTFS volumes" especially if you want to use linear raid).
 Even though untested, there is no reason why mirrors, i.e. raid level 1, and
 stripes with parity, i.e. raid level 5, should not work, too.
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ setup correctly to avoid the possibility of causing damage to the data on the
 ntfs volume.


-Limitiations when using the Software RAID / MD driver
+Limitations when using the Software RAID / MD driver
 -----------------------------------------------------

 Using the md driver will not work properly if any of your NTFS partitions have
@@ -1588,7 +1588,7 @@ Enable the  strict  RFC793 interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field. The
 default is  to  use  the  BSD  compatible interpretation of the urgent pointer
 pointing to the first byte after the urgent data. The RFC793 interpretation is
 to have  it  point  to  the last byte of urgent data. Enabling this option may
-lead to interoperatibility problems. Disabled by default.
+lead to interoperability problems. Disabled by default.

 tcp_syncookies
 --------------
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ INTERROGATION MODE.
 9.18 SET JOYSTICK MONITORING

    0x17
-    rate                ; time between samples in hundreths of a second
+    rate                ; time between samples in hundredths of a second
    Returns: (in packets of two as long as in mode)
            %000000xy   ; where y is JOYSTICK1 Fire button
                        ; and x is JOYSTICK0 Fire button
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ Make sure struct gameport is initialized to 0 in all other fields. The
 gameport generic code will take care of the rest.

 If your hardware supports more than one io address, and your driver can
-choose which one program the hardware to, starting from the more exotic
-addresses is preferred, because the likelyhood of clashing with the standard
+choose which one to program the hardware to, starting from the more exotic
+addresses is preferred, because the likelihood of clashing with the standard
 0x201 address is smaller.

 Eg. if your driver supports addresses 0x200, 0x208, 0x210 and 0x218, then
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ struct input_event {
 };

  'time' is the timestamp, it returns the time at which the event happened.
-Type is for example EV_REL for relative momement, REL_KEY for a keypress or
+Type is for example EV_REL for relative moment, REL_KEY for a keypress or
 release. More types are defined in include/linux/input.h.

  'code' is event code, for example REL_X or KEY_BACKSPACE, again a complete
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are:
 KERNEL SERVICES
 ===============

-The kernel services for key managment are fairly simple to deal with. They can
+The kernel services for key management are fairly simple to deal with. They can
 be broken down into two areas: keys and key types.

 Dealing with keys is fairly straightforward. Firstly, the kernel service
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ cases there is an inherent "natural" ordering between the two objects
 (defined by the properties of the hierarchy), and the kernel grabs the
 locks in this fixed order on each of the objects.

-An example of such an object hieararchy that results in "nested locking"
+An example of such an object hierarchy that results in "nested locking"
 is that of a "whole disk" block-dev object and a "partition" block-dev
 object; the partition is "part of" the whole device and as long as one
 always takes the whole disk lock as a higher lock than the partition
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ The validator treats a lock that is taken in such a nested fashion as a
 separate (sub)class for the purposes of validation.

 Note: When changing code to use the _nested() primitives, be careful and
-check really thoroughly that the hiearchy is correctly mapped; otherwise
+check really thoroughly that the hierarchy is correctly mapped; otherwise
 you can get false positives or false negatives.

 Proof of 100% correctness:
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ configuration options are available on the command line:
 * media=rj45           - specify media type
   or media=bnc
   or media=aui
-   or medai=auto
+   or media=auto
 * duplex=full          - specify forced half/full/autonegotiate duplex
   or duplex=half
   or duplex=auto
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
 			    disabled if accept_ra is disabled.

 accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN
-	Learn Prefix Inforamtion in Router Advertisement.
+	Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement.

 	Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
 			    disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
@@ -215,8 +215,8 @@ called pg_vec, its size limits the number of blocks that can be allocated.
     block #1


-kmalloc allocates any number of bytes of phisically contiguous memory from 
-a pool of pre-determined sizes. This pool of memory is mantained by the slab 
+kmalloc allocates any number of bytes of physically contiguous memory from 
+a pool of pre-determined sizes. This pool of memory is maintained by the slab 
 allocator which is at the end the responsible for doing the allocation and 
 hence which imposes the maximum memory that kmalloc can allocate. 

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ root       129  0.3  0.0     0    0 ?        SW    2003 523:20 [pktgen/0]
 root       130  0.3  0.0     0    0 ?        SW    2003 509:50 [pktgen/1]


-For montoring and control pktgen creates:
+For monitoring and control pktgen creates:
 	/proc/net/pktgen/pgctrl
 	/proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_X
        /proc/net/pktgen/ethX
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ Parameter:    Moderation
 Values:       None, Static, Dynamic
 Default:      None

-Interrupt moderation is employed to limit the maxmimum number of interrupts
+Interrupt moderation is employed to limit the maximum number of interrupts
 the driver has to serve. That is, one or more interrupts (which indicate any
 transmit or receive packet to be processed) are queued until the driver 
 processes them. When queued interrupts are to be served, is determined by the
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ NEW IN THIS RELEASE
 		for async connections.

 	o Added the PPPCONFIG utility
-		Used to configure the PPPD dameon for the
+		Used to configure the PPPD daemon for the
 		WANPIPE Async PPP and standard serial port.
 		The wancfg calls the pppconfig to configure
 		the pppd.
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ REVISION HISTORY
 				 Available as a patch.                 

 2.0.6   Aug 17, 1999		Increased debugging in statup scripts
-				Fixed insallation bugs from 2.0.5
+				Fixed installation bugs from 2.0.5
 				Kernel patch works for both 2.2.10 and 2.2.11 kernels.
 				There is no functional difference between the two packages         

@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ beta3-2.1.4 Jul 2000		o X25 M_BIT Problem fix.
 				  change. 
 	  
 beta1-2.1.5 	Nov 15 2000
-				o Fixed the MulitPort PPP Support for kernels 2.2.16 and above.
+				o Fixed the MultiPort PPP Support for kernels 2.2.16 and above.
 				  2.2.X kernels only

 				o Secured the driver UDP debugging calls
@@ -175,8 +175,8 @@ reliable.
 Q: I do not understand why you have such strong objections to idea of
 selective suspend.

-A: Do selective suspend during runtime power managment, that's okay. But
-its useless for suspend-to-disk. (And I do not see how you could use
+A: Do selective suspend during runtime power management, that's okay. But
+it's useless for suspend-to-disk. (And I do not see how you could use
 it for suspend-to-ram, I hope you do not want that).

 Lets see, so you suggest to
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ slowness may not matter to you. It can always be fixed later.
 For devices like disk it does matter, you do not want to spindown for
 FREEZE.

-Q: After resuming, system is paging heavilly, leading to very bad interactivity.
+Q: After resuming, system is paging heavily, leading to very bad interactivity.

 A: Try running

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