diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt index 10a93696e55ad33c821a5466ed813a07e9fb9930..0d920d54536df88b07f5b46637cfa32b5970100e 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt @@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ Some devices are known to have faulty MSI implementations. Usually this is handled in the individual device driver, but occasionally it's necessary to handle this with a quirk. Some drivers have an option to disable use of MSI. While this is a convenient workaround for the driver author, -it is not good practise, and should not be emulated. +it is not good practice, and should not be emulated. 5.4. Finding why MSIs are disabled on a device diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 26b1e31d5a13e63a95fc68c5a0cb66daf744ab8f..04c1eddb78aaffa0ed92b6a89ce99d862f0d4640 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -369,13 +369,13 @@ you are responsible for last-minute changes. Example : [lucky@maintainer.example.org: struct foo moved from foo.c to foo.h] Signed-off-by: Lucky K Maintainer -This practise is particularly helpful if you maintain a stable branch and +This practice is particularly helpful if you maintain a stable branch and want at the same time to credit the author, track changes, merge the fix, and protect the submitter from complaints. Note that under no circumstances can you change the author's identity (the From header), as it is the one which appears in the changelog. -Special note to back-porters: It seems to be a common and useful practise +Special note to back-porters: It seems to be a common and useful practice to insert an indication of the origin of a patch at the top of the commit message (just after the subject line) to facilitate tracking. For instance, here's what we see in 2.6-stable :