Re: [PATCH 19-rc1] Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z'

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 09:50:31 -0400 Matt LaPlante wrote:

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'U-Z'.

Mostly good, but I have a few comments below.

diff -ru a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
--- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt 2006-10-05 22:18:50.000000000 -0400
+++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt 2006-10-05 23:04:59.000000000 -0400
@@ -403,14 +403,14 @@
for raw i/o.
ii. Ability to represent high-memory buffers (which do not have a virtual
address mapping in kernel address space).
-iii.Ability to represent large i/os w/o unecessarily breaking them up (i.e
+iii.Ability to represent large i/os w/o unnecessarily breaking them up (i.e

I'd prefer to see "I/Os" "without" "i.e.".

diff -ru a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt 2006-10-05 22:18:51.000000000 -0400
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt 2006-10-05 22:53:50.000000000 -0400
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@
/signal2
The two signal notification channels of an SPU. These are read-write
files that operate on a 32 bit word. Writing to one of these files
- triggers an interrupt on the SPU. The value writting to the signal
+ triggers an interrupt on the SPU. The value writing to the signal

I think that should be "written".

files can be read from the SPU through a channel read or from host user
space through the file. After the value has been read by the SPU, it
is reset to zero. The possible operations on an open signal1 or sig-

diff -ru a/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt
--- a/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt 2006-10-05 22:18:52.000000000 -0400
+++ b/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt 2006-10-05 22:31:22.000000000 -0400
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
Note that the pre-assigned IOAPIC dev->irq is valid only if the device
operates in PIN-IRQ assertion mode. In MSI-X mode, any attempt at
using dev->irq by the device driver to request for interrupt service
-may result unpredictabe behavior.
+may result unpredictable behavior.

may result in unpredictable behavior.

For each MSI-X vector granted, a device driver is responsible for calling
other functions like request_irq(), enable_irq(), etc. to enable

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~Randy
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