tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place

That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping" , "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature" , "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore" , "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others. Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2026-05-01 15:00:59 -07:00 · 2009-11-14 13:09:05 -02:00
parent 972b94ffb9
commit af901ca181
345 changed files with 516 additions and 508 deletions
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Description:
 		 1 - major number
 		 2 - minor mumber
 		 3 - device name
-		 4 - reads completed succesfully
+		 4 - reads completed successfully
 		 5 - reads merged
 		 6 - sectors read
 		 7 - time spent reading (ms)
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Contact:	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
 Description:
 		The /sys/block/<disk>/stat files displays the I/O
 		statistics of disk <disk>. They contain 11 fields:
-		 1 - reads completed succesfully
+		 1 - reads completed successfully
 		 2 - reads merged
 		 3 - sectors read
 		 4 - time spent reading (ms)
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ module_exit(board_cleanup);
 	<sect1 id="Multiple_chip_control">
 		<title>Multiple chip control</title>
 		<para>
-			The nand driver can control chip arrays. Therefor the
+			The nand driver can control chip arrays. Therefore the
 			board driver must provide an own select_chip function. This
 			function must (de)select the requested chip.
 			The function pointer in the nand_chip structure must
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ struct <link linkend="v4l2-jpegcompression">v4l2_jpegcompression</link> {
                                 * you do, leave them untouched.
                                 * Inluding less markers will make the
                                 * resulting code smaller, but there will
-                                 * be fewer aplications which can read it.
+                                 * be fewer applications which can read it.
                                 * The presence of the APP and COM marker
                                 * is influenced by APP_len and COM_len
                                 * ONLY, not by this property! */
@@ -5318,7 +5318,7 @@ struct _snd_pcm_runtime {
      pages of the given size and map them onto the virtually contiguous
      memory.  The virtual pointer is addressed in runtime-&gt;dma_area.
      The physical address (runtime-&gt;dma_addr) is set to zero,
-      because the buffer is physically non-contigous.
+      because the buffer is physically non-contiguous.
      The physical address table is set up in sgbuf-&gt;table.
      You can get the physical address at a certain offset via
      <function>snd_pcm_sgbuf_get_addr()</function>. 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_USB
 	     - moved transfer control (pid filter, fifo control) from usb driver to frontend, it seems
 	       better settled there (added xfer_ops-struct)
 	     - created a common files for frontends (mc/p/mb)
-  2004-09-28 - added support for a new device (Unkown, vendor ID is Hyper-Paltek)
+  2004-09-28 - added support for a new device (Unknown, vendor ID is Hyper-Paltek)
  2004-09-20 - added support for a new device (Compro DVB-U2000), thanks
 	       to Amaury Demol for reporting
 	     - changed usb TS transfer method (several urbs, stopping transfer
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ static void *map_zeroed_pages(unsigned int num)
 	addr = mmap(NULL, getpagesize() * num,
 		    PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
 	if (addr == MAP_FAILED)
-		err(1, "Mmaping %u pages of /dev/zero", num);
+		err(1, "Mmapping %u pages of /dev/zero", num);

 	/*
 	 * One neat mmap feature is that you can close the fd, and it
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ ii.	FW enables WCE bit in Mode Sense cmd for drives that are configured
 	Disks are exposed with WCE=1. User is advised to enable Write Back
 	mode only when the controller has battery backup. At this time
 	Synhronize cache is not supported by the FW. Driver will short-cycle
-	the cmd and return sucess without sending down to FW.
+	the cmd and return success without sending down to FW.

 1 Release Date    : Sun Jan. 14 11:21:32 PDT 2007 -
 		 Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>/Bo Yang
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ SPI MESSAGE QUEUE
 The bulk of the driver will be managing the I/O queue fed by transfer().

 That queue could be purely conceptual.  For example, a driver used only
-for low-frequency sensor acess might be fine using synchronous PIO.
+for low-frequency sensor access might be fine using synchronous PIO.

 But the queue will probably be very real, using message->queue, PIO,
 often DMA (especially if the root filesystem is in SPI flash), and
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ The default is 1 percent.
 mmap_min_addr

 This file indicates the amount of address space  which a user process will
-be restricted from mmaping.  Since kernel null dereference bugs could
+be restricted from mmapping.  Since kernel null dereference bugs could
 accidentally operate based on the information in the first couple of pages
 of memory userspace processes should not be allowed to write to them.  By
 default this value is set to 0 and no protections will be enforced by the
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The modules are:

 xxxx		vend:prod
 ----
-spca501		0000:0000	MystFromOri Unknow Camera
+spca501		0000:0000	MystFromOri Unknown Camera
 m5602		0402:5602	ALi Video Camera Controller
 spca501		040a:0002	Kodak DVC-325
 spca500		040a:0300	Kodak EZ200
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static char *page_flag_name(uint64_t flags)
 		present = (flags >> i) & 1;
 		if (!page_flag_names[i]) {
 			if (present)
-				fatal("unkown flag bit %d\n", i);
+				fatal("unknown flag bit %d\n", i);
 			continue;
 		}
 		buf[j++] = present ? page_flag_names[i][0] : '_';
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ setup_memory_node(int nid, void *kernel_end)
 	}

 	if (bootmap_start == -1)
-		panic("couldn't find a contigous place for the bootmap");
+		panic("couldn't find a contiguous place for the bootmap");

 	/* Allocate the bootmap and mark the whole MM as reserved.  */
 	bootmap_size = init_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(nid), bootmap_start,
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static int scoop_gpio_get(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned offset)
 {
 	struct scoop_dev *sdev = container_of(chip, struct scoop_dev, gpio);

-	/* XXX: I'm usure,  but it seems so */
+	/* XXX: I'm unsure, but it seems so */
 	return ioread16(sdev->base + SCOOP_GPRR) & (1 << (offset + 1));
 }

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ typedef struct {
 *  @brief   Get next available transaction width
 *
 *
-*  @return  On sucess  : Next avail able transaction width
+*  @return  On success  : Next available transaction width
 *           On failure : dmacHw_TRANSACTION_WIDTH_8
 *
 *  @note
@@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ int dma_map_add_region(DMA_MemMap_t *memMap,	/* Stores state information about t
 /**
 *   Creates a descriptor ring from a memory mapping.
 *
-*   @return 0 on sucess, error code otherwise.
+*   @return 0 on success, error code otherwise.
 */
 /****************************************************************************/

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 /*
 * This __REG() version gives the same results as the one above,  except
 * that we are fooling gcc somehow so it generates far better and smaller
- * assembly code for access to contigous registers.  It's a shame that gcc
+ * assembly code for access to contiguous registers.  It's a shame that gcc
 * doesn't guess this by itself.
 */
 #include <asm/types.h>
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ static void __init orion5x_setup_pci_wins(struct mbus_dram_target_info *dram)
 	writel(win_enable, PCI_BAR_ENABLE);

 	/*
-	 * Disable automatic update of address remaping when writing to BARs.
+	 * Disable automatic update of address remapping when writing to BARs.
 	 */
 	orion5x_setbits(PCI_ADDR_DECODE_CTRL, 1);
 }
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
 /* BATTERY */
 #define PALMLD_BAT_MAX_VOLTAGE		4000	/* 4.00V maximum voltage */
 #define PALMLD_BAT_MIN_VOLTAGE		3550	/* 3.55V critical voltage */
-#define PALMLD_BAT_MAX_CURRENT		0	/* unknokn */
+#define PALMLD_BAT_MAX_CURRENT		0	/* unknown */
 #define PALMLD_BAT_MIN_CURRENT		0	/* unknown */
 #define PALMLD_BAT_MAX_CHARGE		1	/* unknown */
 #define PALMLD_BAT_MIN_CHARGE		1	/* unknown */
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
 /* BATTERY */
 #define PALMT5_BAT_MAX_VOLTAGE		4000	/* 4.00v current voltage */
 #define PALMT5_BAT_MIN_VOLTAGE		3550	/* 3.55v critical voltage */
-#define PALMT5_BAT_MAX_CURRENT		0	/* unknokn */
+#define PALMT5_BAT_MAX_CURRENT		0	/* unknown */
 #define PALMT5_BAT_MIN_CURRENT		0	/* unknown */
 #define PALMT5_BAT_MAX_CHARGE		1	/* unknown */
 #define PALMT5_BAT_MIN_CHARGE		1	/* unknown */
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