Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (31 commits)
  trivial: remove the trivial patch monkey's name from SubmittingPatches
  trivial: Fix a typo in comment of addrconf_dad_start()
  trivial: usb: fix missing space typo in doc
  trivial: pci hotplug: adding __init/__exit macros to sgi_hotplug
  trivial: Remove the hyphen from git commands
  trivial: fix ETIMEOUT -> ETIMEDOUT typos
  trivial: Kconfig: .ko is normally not included in module names
  trivial: SubmittingPatches: fix typo
  trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos
  trivial: Fix Pavel's address in MAINTAINERS
  trivial: ftrace:fix description of trace directory
  trivial: unnecessary (void*) cast removal in sound/oss/msnd.c
  trivial: input/misc: Fix typo in Kconfig
  trivial: fix grammo in bus_for_each_dev() kerneldoc
  trivial: rbtree.txt: fix rb_entry() parameters in sample code
  trivial: spelling fix in ppc code comments
  trivial: fix typo in bio_alloc kernel doc
  trivial: Documentation/rbtree.txt: cleanup kerneldoc of rbtree.txt
  trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
  trivial: fix typo milisecond/millisecond for documentation and source comments.
  ...

.gitignore

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # subdirectories here. Add them in the ".gitignore" file
 # in that subdirectory instead.
 #
-# NOTE! Please use 'git-ls-files -i --exclude-standard'
+# NOTE! Please use 'git ls-files -i --exclude-standard'
 # command after changing this file, to see if there are
 # any tracked files which get ignored after the change.
 #

Documentation/CodingStyle

@@ -698,8 +698,8 @@ very often is not. Abundant use of the inline keyword leads to a much bigger
 kernel, which in turn slows the system as a whole down, due to a bigger
 icache footprint for the CPU and simply because there is less memory
 available for the pagecache. Just think about it; a pagecache miss causes a
-disk seek, which easily takes 5 miliseconds. There are a LOT of cpu cycles
-that can go into these 5 miliseconds.
+disk seek, which easily takes 5 milliseconds. There are a LOT of cpu cycles
+that can go into these 5 milliseconds.
 
 A reasonable rule of thumb is to not put inline at functions that have more
 than 3 lines of code in them. An exception to this rule are the cases where

Documentation/DMA-API.txt

@@ -676,8 +676,8 @@ this directory the following files can currently be found:
 	dma-api/all_errors	This file contains a numeric value. If this
 				value is not equal to zero the debugging code
 				will print a warning for every error it finds
-				into the kernel log. Be carefull with this
-				option. It can easily flood your logs.
+				into the kernel log. Be careful with this
+				option, as it can easily flood your logs.
 
 	dma-api/disabled	This read-only file contains the character 'Y'
 				if the debugging code is disabled. This can

Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt

@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ to another chain) checking the final 'nulls' value if
 the lookup met the end of chain. If final 'nulls' value
 is not the slot number, then we must restart the lookup at
 the beginning. If the object was moved to the same chain,
-then the reader doesnt care : It might eventually
+then the reader doesn't care : It might eventually
 scan the list again without harm.
 
 

Documentation/SM501.txt

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Copyright 2006, 2007 Simtec Electronics
 
 The Silicon Motion SM501 multimedia companion chip is a multifunction device
 which may provide numerous interfaces including USB host controller USB gadget,
-Asyncronous Serial ports, Audio functions and a dual display video interface.
+asynchronous serial ports, audio functions, and a dual display video interface.
 The device may be connected by PCI or local bus with varying functions enabled.
 
 Core

Documentation/SubmittingPatches

@@ -187,8 +187,9 @@ Even if the maintainer did not respond in step #4, make sure to ALWAYS
 copy the maintainer when you change their code.
 
 For small patches you may want to CC the Trivial Patch Monkey
-trivial@kernel.org managed by Jesper Juhl; which collects "trivial"
-patches. Trivial patches must qualify for one of the following rules:
+trivial@kernel.org which collects "trivial" patches. Have a look
+into the MAINTAINERS file for its current manager.
+Trivial patches must qualify for one of the following rules:
  Spelling fixes in documentation
  Spelling fixes which could break grep(1)
  Warning fixes (cluttering with useless warnings is bad)
@@ -200,7 +201,6 @@ patches. Trivial patches must qualify for one of the following rules:
  since people copy, as long as it's trivial)
  Any fix by the author/maintainer of the file (ie. patch monkey
  in re-transmission mode)
-URL: <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/juhl/trivial/>
 
 
 

Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ same criteria as reads.
 front_merges	(bool)
 ------------
 
-Sometimes it happens that a request enters the io scheduler that is contigious
+Sometimes it happens that a request enters the io scheduler that is contiguous
 with a request that is already on the queue. Either it fits in the back of that
 request, or it fits at the front. That is called either a back merge candidate
 or a front merge candidate. Due to the way files are typically laid out,

Documentation/braille-console.txt

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ parameter.
 
 For simplicity, only one braille console can be enabled, other uses of
 console=brl,... will be discarded.  Also note that it does not interfere with
-the console selection mecanism described in serial-console.txt
+the console selection mechanism described in serial-console.txt
 
 For now, only the VisioBraille device is supported.
 

Documentation/dell_rbu.txt

@@ -76,9 +76,9 @@ Do the steps below to download the BIOS image.
 
 The /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/ entries will remain till the following is
 done.
-echo -1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading.
+echo -1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading
 Until this step is completed the driver cannot be unloaded.
-Also echoing either mono ,packet or init in to image_type will free up the
+Also echoing either mono, packet or init in to image_type will free up the
 memory allocated by the driver.
 
 If a user by accident executes steps 1 and 3 above without executing step 2;

Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt

@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ For example, you can do something like the following.
 
   void my_midlayer_destroy_something()
   {
-	devres_release_group(dev, my_midlayer_create_soemthing);
+	devres_release_group(dev, my_midlayer_create_something);
   }
 
 

Documentation/edac.txt

@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ first time, it was renamed to 'EDAC'.
 The bluesmoke project at sourceforge.net is now utilized as a 'staging area'
 for EDAC development, before it is sent upstream to kernel.org
 
-At the bluesmoke/EDAC project site, is a series of quilt patches against
-recent kernels, stored in a SVN respository. For easier downloading, there
+At the bluesmoke/EDAC project site is a series of quilt patches against
+recent kernels, stored in a SVN repository. For easier downloading, there
 is also a tarball snapshot available.
 
 ============================================================================
@@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ the vendor should tie the parity status bits to 0 if they do not intend
 to generate parity.  Some vendors do not do this, and thus the parity bit
 can "float" giving false positives.
 
-In the kernel there is a pci device attribute located in sysfs that is
+In the kernel there is a PCI device attribute located in sysfs that is
 checked by the EDAC PCI scanning code. If that attribute is set,
-PCI parity/error scannining is skipped for that device. The attribute
+PCI parity/error scanning is skipped for that device. The attribute
 is:
 
 	broken_parity_status

Documentation/fb/sh7760fb.txt

 SH7760/SH7763 integrated LCDC Framebuffer driver
 ================================================
 
-0. Overwiew
+0. Overview
 -----------
 The SH7760/SH7763 have an integrated LCD Display controller (LCDC) which
 supports (in theory) resolutions ranging from 1x1 to 1024x1024,

Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt

@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ The call requires an initialized struct autofs_dev_ioctl. There are two
 possible variations. Both use the path field set to the path of the mount
 point to check and the size field adjusted appropriately. One uses the
 ioctlfd field to identify a specific mount point to check while the other
-variation uses the path and optionaly arg1 set to an autofs mount type.
+variation uses the path and optionally arg1 set to an autofs mount type.
 The call returns 1 if this is a mount point and sets arg1 to the device
 number of the mount and field arg2 to the relevant super block magic
 number (described below) or 0 if it isn't a mountpoint. In both cases

Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt

@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ This has the following fields:
      have index children.
 
      If this function is not supplied or if it returns NULL then the first
-     cache in the parent's list will be chosed, or failing that, the first
+     cache in the parent's list will be chosen, or failing that, the first
      cache in the master list.
 
  (4) A function to retrieve an object's key from the netfs [mandatory].

Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt

@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ max_batch_time=usec	Maximum amount of time ext4 should wait for
 			amount of time (on average) that it takes to
 			finish committing a transaction.  Call this time
 			the "commit time".  If the time that the
-			transactoin has been running is less than the
+			transaction has been running is less than the
 			commit time, ext4 will try sleeping for the
 			commit time to see if other operations will join
 			the transaction.   The commit time is capped by
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ noauto_da_alloc		replacing existing files via patterns such as
 			journal commit, in the default data=ordered
 			mode, the data blocks of the new file are forced
 			to disk before the rename() operation is
-			commited.  This provides roughly the same level
+			committed.  This provides roughly the same level
 			of guarantees as ext3, and avoids the
 			"zero-length" problem that can happen when a
 			system crashes before the delayed allocation
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ written to the journal first, and then to its final location.
 In the event of a crash, the journal can be replayed, bringing both data and
 metadata into a consistent state.  This mode is the slowest except when data
 needs to be read from and written to disk at the same time where it
-outperforms all others modes.  Curently ext4 does not have delayed
+outperforms all others modes.  Currently ext4 does not have delayed
 allocation support if this data journalling mode is selected.
 
 References

Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt

@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ fiemap_check_flags() helper:
 
 int fiemap_check_flags(struct fiemap_extent_info *fieinfo, u32 fs_flags);
 
-The struct fieinfo should be passed in as recieved from ioctl_fiemap(). The
+The struct fieinfo should be passed in as received from ioctl_fiemap(). The
 set of fiemap flags which the fs understands should be passed via fs_flags. If
 fiemap_check_flags finds invalid user flags, it will place the bad values in
 fieinfo->fi_flags and return -EBADR. If the file system gets -EBADR, from

Documentation/filesystems/nfs-rdma.txt

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Installation
     $ sudo cp utils/mount/mount.nfs /sbin/mount.nfs
 
     In this location, mount.nfs will be invoked automatically for NFS mounts
-    by the system mount commmand.
+    by the system mount command.
 
     NOTE: mount.nfs and therefore nfs-utils-1.1.2 or greater is only needed
     on the NFS client machine. You do not need this specific version of

Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ just those considered 'most important'.  The new vectors are:
   RES, CAL, TLB -- rescheduling, call and TLB flush interrupts are
   sent from one CPU to another per the needs of the OS.  Typically,
   their statistics are used by kernel developers and interested users to
-  determine the occurance of interrupt of the given type.
+  determine the occurrence of interrupts of the given type.
 
 The above IRQ vectors are displayed only when relevent.  For example,
 the threshold vector does not exist on x86_64 platforms.  Others are
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ Committed_AS: The amount of memory presently allocated on the system.
               memory once that memory has been successfully allocated.
 VmallocTotal: total size of vmalloc memory area
  VmallocUsed: amount of vmalloc area which is used
-VmallocChunk: largest contigious block of vmalloc area which is free
+VmallocChunk: largest contiguous block of vmalloc area which is free
 
 ..............................................................................
 

Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ The 'rom' file is special in that it provides read-only access to the device's
 ROM file, if available.  It's disabled by default, however, so applications
 should write the string "1" to the file to enable it before attempting a read
 call, and disable it following the access by writing "0" to the file.  Note
-that the device must be enabled for a rom read to return data succesfully.
+that the device must be enabled for a rom read to return data successfully.
 In the event a driver is not bound to the device, it can be enabled using the
 'enable' file, documented above.
 

Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt

@@ -124,10 +124,10 @@ sys_immutable -- If set, ATTR_SYS attribute on FAT is handled as
 flush         -- If set, the filesystem will try to flush to disk more
 		 early than normal. Not set by default.
 
-rodir	      -- FAT has the ATTR_RO (read-only) attribute. But on Windows,
-		 the ATTR_RO of the directory will be just ignored actually,
-		 and is used by only applications as flag. E.g. it's setted
-		 for the customized folder.
+rodir	      -- FAT has the ATTR_RO (read-only) attribute. On Windows,
+		 the ATTR_RO of the directory will just be ignored,
+		 and is used only by applications as a flag (e.g. it's set
+		 for the customized folder).
 
 		 If you want to use ATTR_RO as read-only flag even for
 		 the directory, set this option.

Documentation/gpio.txt

@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ debugfs interface, since it provides control over GPIO direction and
 value instead of just showing a gpio state summary.  Plus, it could be
 present on production systems without debugging support.
 
-Given approprate hardware documentation for the system, userspace could
+Given appropriate hardware documentation for the system, userspace could
 know for example that GPIO #23 controls the write protect line used to
 protect boot loader segments in flash memory.  System upgrade procedures
 may need to temporarily remove that protection, first importing a GPIO,

Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt

@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ There are two possible methods of using Kdump.
 
 2) Or use the system kernel binary itself as dump-capture kernel and there is
    no need to build a separate dump-capture kernel. This is possible
-   only with the architecutres which support a relocatable kernel. As
+   only with the architectures which support a relocatable kernel. As
    of today, i386, x86_64, ppc64 and ia64 architectures support relocatable
    kernel.
 
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, ia64)
 ----------------------------------------------------------
 
 - No specific options are required to create a dump-capture kernel
-  for ia64, other than those specified in the arch idependent section
+  for ia64, other than those specified in the arch independent section
   above. This means that it is possible to use the system kernel
   as a dump-capture kernel if desired.
 

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
 	kgdboc=		[HW] kgdb over consoles.
 			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling.
-			(only serial suported for now)
+			(only serial supported for now)
 			Format: <serial_device>[,baud]
 
 	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
@@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
 
 	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
-			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continous chunk
+			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
 			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
 
 	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]

Documentation/kobject.txt

@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ kobject_name():
     const char *kobject_name(const struct kobject * kobj);
 
 There is a helper function to both initialize and add the kobject to the
-kernel at the same time, called supprisingly enough kobject_init_and_add():
+kernel at the same time, called surprisingly enough kobject_init_and_add():
 
     int kobject_init_and_add(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_type *ktype,
                              struct kobject *parent, const char *fmt, ...);

Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ NOTE: The Acer Aspire One is not supported hardware. It cannot work with
 acer-wmi until Acer fix their ACPI-WMI implementation on them, so has been
 blacklisted until that happens.
 
-Please see the website for the current list of known working hardare:
+Please see the website for the current list of known working hardware:
 
 http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/wiki/SupportedHardware
 

Documentation/laptops/sony-laptop.txt

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ If your laptop model supports it, you will find sysfs files in the
 /sys/class/backlight/sony/
 directory. You will be able to query and set the current screen
 brightness:
-	brightness		get/set screen brightness (an iteger
+	brightness		get/set screen brightness (an integer
 				between 0 and 7)
 	actual_brightness	reading from this file will query the HW
 				to get real brightness value

Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt

@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ generate input device EV_KEY events.
 In addition to the EV_KEY events, thinkpad-acpi may also issue EV_SW
 events for switches:
 
-SW_RFKILL_ALL	T60 and later hardare rfkill rocker switch
+SW_RFKILL_ALL	T60 and later hardware rfkill rocker switch
 SW_TABLET_MODE	Tablet ThinkPads HKEY events 0x5009 and 0x500A
 
 Non hot-key ACPI HKEY event map:

Documentation/local_ops.txt

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ out of order wrt other memory writes by the owner CPU.
 
 It can be done by slightly modifying the standard atomic operations : only
 their UP variant must be kept. It typically means removing LOCK prefix (on
-i386 and x86_64) and any SMP sychronization barrier. If the architecture does
+i386 and x86_64) and any SMP synchronization barrier. If the architecture does
 not have a different behavior between SMP and UP, including asm-generic/local.h
 in your architecture's local.h is sufficient.
 

Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt

@@ -73,13 +73,13 @@ this phase is triggered automatically. ACPI can notify this event. If not,
 (see Section 4.).
 
 Logical Memory Hotplug phase is to change memory state into
-avaiable/unavailable for users. Amount of memory from user's view is
+available/unavailable for users. Amount of memory from user's view is
 changed by this phase. The kernel makes all memory in it as free pages
 when a memory range is available.
 
 In this document, this phase is described as online/offline.
 
-Logical Memory Hotplug phase is triggred by write of sysfs file by system
+Logical Memory Hotplug phase is triggered by write of sysfs file by system
 administrator. For the hot-add case, it must be executed after Physical Hotplug
 phase by hand.
 (However, if you writes udev's hotplug scripts for memory hotplug, these
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ MEMORY_CANCEL_ONLINE
   Generated if MEMORY_GOING_ONLINE fails.
 
 MEMORY_ONLINE
-  Generated when memory has succesfully brought online. The callback may
+  Generated when memory has successfully brought online. The callback may
   allocate pages from the new memory.
 
 MEMORY_GOING_OFFLINE
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ The third argument is passed by pointer of struct memory_notify.
 struct memory_notify {
        unsigned long start_pfn;
        unsigned long nr_pages;
-       int status_cahnge_nid;
+       int status_change_nid;
 }
 
 start_pfn is start_pfn of online/offline memory.

Documentation/mn10300/ABI.txt

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ registers and the stack. If the first argument is a 64-bit value, it will be
 passed in D0:D1. If the first argument is not a 64-bit value, but the second
 is, the second will be passed entirely on the stack and D1 will be unused.
 
-Arguments smaller than 32-bits are not coelesced within a register or a stack
+Arguments smaller than 32-bits are not coalesced within a register or a stack
 word. For example, two byte-sized arguments will always be passed in separate
 registers or word-sized stack slots.
 

Documentation/mtd/nand_ecc.txt

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ byte 255:  bit7 bit6 bit5 bit4 bit3 bit2 bit1 bit0   rp1 rp3 rp5 ... rp15
            cp5  cp5  cp5  cp5  cp4  cp4  cp4  cp4
 
 This figure represents a sector of 256 bytes.
-cp is my abbreviaton for column parity, rp for row parity.
+cp is my abbreviation for column parity, rp for row parity.
 
 Let's start to explain column parity.
 cp0 is the parity that belongs to all bit0, bit2, bit4, bit6.
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ Measuring this code again showed big gain. When executing the original
 linux code 1 million times, this took about 1 second on my system.
 (using time to measure the performance). After this iteration I was back
 to 0.075 sec. Actually I had to decide to start measuring over 10
-million interations in order not to loose too much accuracy. This one
+million iterations in order not to lose too much accuracy. This one
 definitely seemed to be the jackpot!
 
 There is a little bit more room for improvement though. There are three
@@ -571,8 +571,8 @@ loop; This eliminates 3 statements per loop. Of course after the loop we
 need to correct by adding:
     rp4 ^= rp4_6;
     rp6 ^= rp4_6
-Furthermore there are 4 sequential assingments to rp8. This can be
-encoded slightly more efficient by saving tmppar before those 4 lines
+Furthermore there are 4 sequential assignments to rp8. This can be
+encoded slightly more efficiently by saving tmppar before those 4 lines
 and later do rp8 = rp8 ^ tmppar ^ notrp8;
 (where notrp8 is the value of rp8 before those 4 lines).
 Again a use of the commutative property of xor.
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ Not a big change, but every penny counts :-)
 Analysis 7
 ==========
 
-Acutally this made things worse. Not very much, but I don't want to move
+Actually this made things worse. Not very much, but I don't want to move
 into the wrong direction. Maybe something to investigate later. Could
 have to do with caching again.
 
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ Analysis 8
 This makes things worse. Let's stick with attempt 6 and continue from there.
 Although it seems that the code within the loop cannot be optimised
 further there is still room to optimize the generation of the ecc codes.
-We can simply calcualate the total parity. If this is 0 then rp4 = rp5
+We can simply calculate the total parity. If this is 0 then rp4 = rp5
 etc. If the parity is 1, then rp4 = !rp5;
 But if rp4 = rp5 we do not need rp5 etc. We can just write the even bits
 in the result byte and then do something like

Documentation/networking/bonding.txt

@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ ad_select
 
 		- Any slave's 802.3ad association state changes
 
-		- The bond's adminstrative state changes to up
+		- The bond's administrative state changes to up
 
 	count or 2
 
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ fail_over_mac
 		When this policy is used in conjuction with the mii
 		monitor, devices which assert link up prior to being
 		able to actually transmit and receive are particularly
-		susecptible to loss of the gratuitous ARP, and an
+		susceptible to loss of the gratuitous ARP, and an
 		appropriate updelay setting may be required.
 
 	follow or 2
@@ -1794,7 +1794,7 @@ target to query.
 generally referred to as "trunk failover."  This is a feature of the
 switch that causes the link state of a particular switch port to be set
 down (or up) when the state of another switch port goes down (or up).
-It's purpose is to propogate link failures from logically "exterior" ports
+Its purpose is to propagate link failures from logically "exterior" ports
 to the logically "interior" ports that bonding is able to monitor via
 miimon.  Availability and configuration for trunk failover varies by
 switch, but this can be a viable alternative to the ARP monitor when using

Documentation/networking/can.txt

@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ solution for a couple of reasons:
             return 1;
     }
 
-    /* paraniod check ... */
+    /* paranoid check ... */
     if (nbytes < sizeof(struct can_frame)) {
             fprintf(stderr, "read: incomplete CAN frame\n");
             return 1;

Documentation/networking/dm9000.txt

@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ PHY Link state polling
 ----------------------
 
 The driver keeps track of the link state and informs the network core
-about link (carrier) availablilty. This is managed by several methods
+about link (carrier) availability. This is managed by several methods
 depending on the version of the chip and on which PHY is being used.
 
 For the internal PHY, the original (and currently default) method is

Documentation/networking/l2tp.txt

@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Sample Userspace Code
         }
         return 0;
 
-Miscellanous
+Miscellaneous
 ============
 
 The PPPoL2TP driver was developed as part of the OpenL2TP project by

Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ dev->hard_start_xmit:
 	for this and return NETDEV_TX_LOCKED when the spin lock fails.
 	The locking there should also properly protect against 
 	set_multicast_list. Note that the use of NETIF_F_LLTX is deprecated.
-	Dont use it for new drivers.
+	Don't use it for new drivers.
 
 	Context: Process with BHs disabled or BH (timer),
 	         will be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole.

Documentation/networking/phonet.txt

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Phonet packets have a common header as follows:
 On Linux, the link-layer header includes the pn_media byte (see below).
 The next 7 bytes are part of the network-layer header.
 
-The device ID is split: the 6 higher-order bits consitute the device
+The device ID is split: the 6 higher-order bits constitute the device
 address, while the 2 lower-order bits are used for multiplexing, as are
 the 8-bit object identifiers. As such, Phonet can be considered as a
 network layer with 6 bits of address space and 10 bits for transport

Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt

@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ added to this document when its support is enabled.
 Device drivers who provide their own built regulatory domain
 do not need a callback as the channels registered by them are
 the only ones that will be allowed and therefore *additional*
-cannels cannot be enabled.
+channels cannot be enabled.
 
 Example code - drivers hinting an alpha2:
 ------------------------------------------

Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt

@@ -178,5 +178,5 @@ Consumers can uregister interest by calling :-
 int regulator_unregister_notifier(struct regulator *regulator,
 				struct notifier_block *nb);
 
-Regulators use the kernel notifier framework to send event to thier interested
+Regulators use the kernel notifier framework to send event to their interested
 consumers.

Documentation/power/regulator/overview.txt

@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Some terms used in this document:-
                    battery power, USB power)
 
                    Regulator Domains: is the new current limit within the
-                   regulator operating parameters for input/ouput voltage.
+                   regulator operating parameters for input/output voltage.
 
                    If the regulator request passes all the constraint tests
                    then the new regulator value is applied.

Documentation/power/s2ram.txt

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ hardware during resume operations where a value can be set that will
 survive a reboot.
 
 Consequence is that after a resume (even if it is successful) your system
-clock will have a value corresponding to the magic mumber instead of the
+clock will have a value corresponding to the magic number instead of the
 correct date/time! It is therefore advisable to use a program like ntp-date
 or rdate to reset the correct date/time from an external time source when
 using this trace option.

Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt

@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ unfreeze user space processes frozen by SNAPSHOT_UNFREEZE if they are
 still frozen when the device is being closed).
 
 Currently it is assumed that the userland utilities reading/writing the
-snapshot image from/to the kernel will use a swap parition, called the resume
+snapshot image from/to the kernel will use a swap partition, called the resume
 partition, or a swap file as storage space (if a swap file is used, the resume
 partition is the partition that holds this file).  However, this is not really
 required, as they can use, for example, a special (blank) suspend partition or

Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt

@@ -1356,7 +1356,7 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model.
     - phy-map           : 1 cell, optional, bitmap of addresses to probe the PHY
 			  for, used if phy-address is absent. bit 0x00000001 is
 			  MDIO address 0.
-			  For Axon it can be absent, thouugh my current driver
+			  For Axon it can be absent, though my current driver
 			  doesn't handle phy-address yet so for now, keep
 			  0x00ffffff in it.
     - rx-fifo-size-gige : 1 cell, Rx fifo size in bytes for 1000 Mb/sec
@@ -1438,7 +1438,7 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model.
 
    The Xilinx EDK toolchain ships with a set of IP cores (devices) for use
    in Xilinx Spartan and Virtex FPGAs.  The devices cover the whole range
-   of standard device types (network, serial, etc.) and miscellanious
+   of standard device types (network, serial, etc.) and miscellaneous
    devices (gpio, LCD, spi, etc).  Also, since these devices are
    implemented within the fpga fabric every instance of the device can be
    synthesised with different options that change the behaviour.

Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/board.txt

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Required properities:
 - reg : Should contain the address and the length of the GPIO bank
   register.
 - #gpio-cells : Should be two. The first cell is the pin number and the
-  second cell is used to specify optional paramters (currently unused).
+  second cell is used to specify optional parameters (currently unused).
 - gpio-controller : Marks the port as GPIO controller.
 
 Example:

Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/cpm.txt

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Example:
 	reg = <119c0 30>;
      }
 
-* Properties common to mulitple CPM/QE devices
+* Properties common to multiple CPM/QE devices
 
 - fsl,cpm-command : This value is ORed with the opcode and command flag
                     to specify the device on which a CPM command operates.

Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/gpio.txt

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Required properties:
   "fsl,cpm1-pario-bank-c", "fsl,cpm1-pario-bank-d",
   "fsl,cpm1-pario-bank-e", "fsl,cpm2-pario-bank"
 - #gpio-cells : Should be two. The first cell is the pin number and the
-  second cell is used to specify optional paramters (currently unused).
+  second cell is used to specify optional parameters (currently unused).
 - gpio-controller : Marks the port as GPIO controller.
 
 Example of three SOC GPIO banks defined as gpio-controller nodes:

Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/msi-pic.txt

 * Freescale MSI interrupt controller
 
-Reguired properities:
+Required properties:
 - compatible : compatible list, contains 2 entries,
   first is "fsl,CHIP-msi", where CHIP is the processor(mpc8610, mpc8572,
   etc.) and the second is "fsl,mpic-msi" or "fsl,ipic-msi" depending on

Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/pmc.txt

@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ Properties:
   compatible; all statements below that apply to "fsl,mpc8548-pmc" also
   apply to "fsl,mpc8641d-pmc".
 
-  Compatibility does not include bit assigments in SCCR/PMCDR/DEVDISR; these
-  bit assigments are indicated via the sleep specifier in each device's
+  Compatibility does not include bit assignments in SCCR/PMCDR/DEVDISR; these
+  bit assignments are indicated via the sleep specifier in each device's
   sleep property.
 
 - reg: For devices compatible with "fsl,mpc8349-pmc", the first resource

Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.txt

@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ For example, to match the 8323, revision 1.0:
      soc.major = 1
      soc.minor = 0
 
-'padding' is neccessary for structure alignment.  This field ensures that the
+'padding' is necessary for structure alignment.  This field ensures that the
 'extended_modes' field is aligned on a 64-bit boundary.
 
 'extended_modes' is a bitfield that defines special functionality which has an

Documentation/rbtree.txt

@@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ Example:
   	}
 
   	/* Add new node and rebalance tree. */
-  	rb_link_node(data->node, parent, new);
-  	rb_insert_color(data->node, root);
+  	rb_link_node(&data->node, parent, new);
+  	rb_insert_color(&data->node, root);
 
 	return TRUE;
   }
@@ -146,10 +146,10 @@ To remove an existing node from a tree, call:
 
 Example:
 
-  struct mytype *data = mysearch(mytree, "walrus");
+  struct mytype *data = mysearch(&mytree, "walrus");
 
   if (data) {
-  	rb_erase(data->node, mytree);
+  	rb_erase(&data->node, &mytree);
   	myfree(data);
   }
 
@@ -188,5 +188,5 @@ Example:
 
   struct rb_node *node;
   for (node = rb_first(&mytree); node; node = rb_next(node))
-  	printk("key=%s\n", rb_entry(node, int, keystring));
+	printk("key=%s\n", rb_entry(node, struct mytype, node)->keystring);
 

Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt

@@ -1984,7 +1984,7 @@ break *$pc
 
 break *0x400618
 
-heres a really useful one for large programs
+Here's a really useful one for large programs
 rbr
 Set a breakpoint for all functions matching REGEXP
 e.g.
@@ -2211,7 +2211,7 @@ Breakpoint 2 at 0x4d87a4: file top.c, line 2609.
 #5  0x51692c in readline_internal () at readline.c:521
 #6  0x5164fe in readline (prompt=0x7ffff810 "\177ÿøx\177ÿ÷Ø\177ÿøxÀ")
     at readline.c:349
-#7  0x4d7a8a in command_line_input (prrompt=0x564420 "(gdb) ", repeat=1,
+#7  0x4d7a8a in command_line_input (prompt=0x564420 "(gdb) ", repeat=1,
     annotation_suffix=0x4d6b44 "prompt") at top.c:2091
 #8  0x4d6cf0 in command_loop () at top.c:1345
 #9  0x4e25bc in main (argc=1, argv=0x7ffffdf4) at main.c:635

Documentation/scheduler/sched-nice-design.txt

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ To sum it up: we always wanted to make nice levels more consistent, but
 within the constraints of HZ and jiffies and their nasty design level
 coupling to timeslices and granularity it was not really viable.
 
-The second (less frequent but still periodically occuring) complaint
+The second (less frequent but still periodically occurring) complaint
 about Linux's nice level support was its assymetry around the origo
 (which you can see demonstrated in the picture above), or more
 accurately: the fact that nice level behavior depended on the _absolute_

Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt

@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ The following information is available in this file:
           - Packetized SCSI Protocol at 160MB/s and 320MB/s
           - Quick Arbitration Selection (QAS)
           - Retained Training Information (Rev B. ASIC only)
-        - Interrupt Coalessing
+        - Interrupt Coalescing
         - Initiator Mode (target mode not currently 
           supported)
         - Support for the PCI-X standard up to 133MHz

Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt

@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ of MOVE MEMORY instructions.
 The 896 and the 895A allows handling of the phase mismatch context from 
 SCRIPTS (avoids the phase mismatch interrupt that stops the SCSI processor 
 until the C code has saved the context of the transfer).
-Implementing this without using LOAD/STORE instructions would be painfull 
+Implementing this without using LOAD/STORE instructions would be painful 
 and I didn't even want to try it.
 
 The 896 chip supports 64 bit PCI transactions and addressing, while the 
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ characteristics. This feature may also reduce average command latency.
 In order to really gain advantage of this feature, devices must have 
 a reasonable cache size (No miracle is to be expected for a low-end 
 hard disk with 128 KB or less).
-Some kown SCSI devices do not properly support tagged command queuing.
+Some known SCSI devices do not properly support tagged command queuing.
 Generally, firmware revisions that fix this kind of problems are available 
 at respective vendor web/ftp sites.
 All I can say is that the hard disks I use on my machines behave well with 

Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt

@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ characteristics. This feature may also reduce average command latency.
 In order to really gain advantage of this feature, devices must have 
 a reasonable cache size (No miracle is to be expected for a low-end 
 hard disk with 128 KB or less).
-Some kown old SCSI devices do not properly support tagged command queuing.
+Some known old SCSI devices do not properly support tagged command queuing.
 Generally, firmware revisions that fix this kind of problems are available 
 at respective vendor web/ftp sites.
 All I can say is that I never have had problem with tagged queuing using 

Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt

@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ Prior to version 0.9.0rc4 options had a 'snd_' prefix. This was removed.
     single_cmd  - Use single immediate commands to communicate with
 		codecs (for debugging only)
     enable_msi	- Enable Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI) (default = off)
-    power_save	- Automatic power-saving timtout (in second, 0 =
+    power_save	- Automatic power-saving timeout (in second, 0 =
 		disable)
     power_save_controller - Reset HD-audio controller in power-saving mode
 		(default = on)

Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ methods for the	HD-audio hardware.
 The HD-audio component consists of two parts: the controller chip and 
 the codec chips on the HD-audio bus.  Linux provides a single driver
 for all controllers, snd-hda-intel.  Although the driver name contains
-a word of a well-known harware vendor, it's not specific to it but for
+a word of a well-known hardware vendor, it's not specific to it but for
 all controller chips by other companies.  Since the HD-audio
 controllers are supposed to be compatible, the single snd-hda-driver
 should work in most cases.  But, not surprisingly, there are known

Documentation/sound/alsa/hda_codec.txt

@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ For writing a sequence of verbs, use snd_hda_sequence_write().
 
 There are variants of cached read/write, snd_hda_codec_write_cache(),
 snd_hda_sequence_write_cache().  These are used for recording the
-register states for the power-mangement resume.  When no PM is needed,
+register states for the power-management resume.  When no PM is needed,
 these are equivalent with non-cached version.
 
 To retrieve the number of sub nodes connected to the given node, use

Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt

@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ nr_pdflush_threads
 The current number of pdflush threads.  This value is read-only.
 The value changes according to the number of dirty pages in the system.
 
-When neccessary, additional pdflush threads are created, one per second, up to
+When necessary, additional pdflush threads are created, one per second, up to
 nr_pdflush_threads_max.
 
 ==============================================================
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ swappiness
 
 This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap
 memory pages.  Higher values will increase agressiveness, lower values
-descrease the amount of swap.
+decrease the amount of swap.
 
 The default value is 60.
 

Documentation/timers/hpet.txt

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ by Intel and Microsoft which can be found at
 
 Each HPET has one fixed-rate counter (at 10+ MHz, hence "High Precision")
 and up to 32 comparators.  Normally three or more comparators are provided,
-each of which can generate oneshot interupts and at least one of which has
+each of which can generate oneshot interrupts and at least one of which has
 additional hardware to support periodic interrupts.  The comparators are
 also called "timers", which can be misleading since usually timers are
 independent of each other ... these share a counter, complicating resets.

Documentation/timers/timer_stats.txt

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Timerstats sample period: 3.888770 s
 
 The first column is the number of events, the second column the pid, the third
 column is the name of the process. The forth column shows the function which
-initialized the timer and in parantheses the callback function which was
+initialized the timer and in parenthesis the callback function which was
 executed on expiry.
 
     Thomas, Ingo

Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt

@@ -1834,4 +1834,4 @@ an error.
 -----------
 
 More details can be found in the source code, in the
-kernel/tracing/*.c files.
+kernel/trace/*.c files.

Documentation/trace/kmemtrace.txt

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ III. Quick usage guide
 CONFIG_KMEMTRACE).
 
 2) Get the userspace tool and build it:
-$ git-clone git://repo.or.cz/kmemtrace-user.git		# current repository
+$ git clone git://repo.or.cz/kmemtrace-user.git		# current repository
 $ cd kmemtrace-user/
 $ ./autogen.sh
 $ ./configure

Documentation/usb/WUSB-Design-overview.txt

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ The different logical parts of this driver are:
 
       *UWB*: the Ultra-Wide-Band stack -- manages the radio and
       associated spectrum to allow for devices sharing it. Allows to
-      control bandwidth assingment, beaconing, scanning, etc
+      control bandwidth assignment, beaconing, scanning, etc
 
     *
 
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ and sends the replies and notifications back to the API
 [/uwb_rc_neh_grok()/]. Notifications are handled to the UWB daemon, that
 is chartered, among other things, to keep the tab of how the UWB radio
 neighborhood looks, creating and destroying devices as they show up or
-dissapear.
+disappear.
 
 Command execution is very simple: a command block is sent and a event
 block or reply is expected back. For sending/receiving command/events, a
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ read descriptors and move our data.
 
 *Device life cycle and keep alives*
 
-Everytime there is a succesful transfer to/from a device, we update a
+Every time there is a successful transfer to/from a device, we update a
 per-device activity timestamp. If not, every now and then we check and
 if the activity timestamp gets old, we ping the device by sending it a
 Keep Alive IE; it responds with a /DN_Alive/ pong during the DNTS (this
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ context (wa_xfer) and submit it. When the xfer is done, our callback is
 called and we assign the status bits and release the xfer resources.
 
 In dequeue() we are basically cancelling/aborting the transfer. We issue
-a xfer abort request to the HC, cancell all the URBs we had submitted
+a xfer abort request to the HC, cancel all the URBs we had submitted
 and not yet done and when all that is done, the xfer callback will be
 called--this will call the URB callback.
 

Documentation/usb/anchors.txt

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Association and disassociation of URBs with anchors
 
 An association of URBs to an anchor is made by an explicit
 call to usb_anchor_urb(). The association is maintained until
-an URB is finished by (successfull) completion. Thus disassociation
+an URB is finished by (successful) completion. Thus disassociation
 is automatic. A function is provided to forcibly finish (kill)
 all URBs associated with an anchor.
 Furthermore, disassociation can be made with usb_unanchor_urb()
@@ -76,4 +76,4 @@ usb_get_from_anchor()
 Returns the oldest anchored URB of an anchor. The URB is unanchored
 and returned with a reference. As you may mix URBs to several
 destinations in one anchor you have no guarantee the chronologically
-first submitted URB is returned.
\ No newline at end of file
+first submitted URB is returned.

Documentation/usb/callbacks.txt

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Accept or decline an interface. If you accept the device return 0,
 otherwise -ENODEV or -ENXIO. Other error codes should be used only if a
 genuine error occurred during initialisation which prevented a driver
 from accepting a device that would else have been accepted.
-You are strongly encouraged to use usbcore'sfacility,
+You are strongly encouraged to use usbcore's facility,
 usb_set_intfdata(), to associate a data structure with an interface, so
 that you know which internal state and identity you associate with a
 particular interface. The device will not be suspended and you may do IO

Documentation/video4linux/cx18.txt

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ encoder chip:
 2) Some people have problems getting the i2c bus to work.
    The symptom is that the eeprom cannot be read and the card is
    unusable. This is probably fixed, but if you have problems
-   then post to the video4linux or ivtv-users mailinglist.
+   then post to the video4linux or ivtv-users mailing list.
 
 3) VBI (raw or sliced) has not yet been implemented.
 

MAINTAINERS

@@ -2358,7 +2358,7 @@ F:	fs/freevxfs/
 
 FREEZER
 P:	Pavel Machek
-M:	pavel@suse.cz
+M:	pavel@ucw.cz
 P:	Rafael J. Wysocki
 M:	rjw@sisk.pl
 L:	linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org

arch/arm/mach-sa1100/jornada720_ssp.c

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(jornada_ssp_reverse);
  * timeout after <timeout> rounds. Needs mcu running before its called.
  *
  * returns : %mcu output on success
- *	   : %-ETIMEOUT on timeout
+ *	   : %-ETIMEDOUT on timeout
  */
 int jornada_ssp_byte(u8 byte)
 {
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(jornada_ssp_byte);
  * jornada_ssp_inout - decide if input is command or trading byte
  *
  * returns : (jornada_ssp_byte(byte)) on success
- *         : %-ETIMEOUT on timeout failure
+ *         : %-ETIMEDOUT on timeout failure
  */
 int jornada_ssp_inout(u8 byte)
 {

arch/blackfin/Kconfig

@@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ config BFIN_GPTIMERS
 	  are unsure, say N.
 
 	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
-	  will be called gptimers.ko.
+	  will be called gptimers.
 
 choice
 	prompt "Uncached DMA region"

arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
  * PowerPC64 SLB support.
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2004 David Gibson <dwg@au.ibm.com>, IBM
- * Based on earlier code writteh by:
+ * Based on earlier code written by:
  * Dave Engebretsen and Mike Corrigan {engebret|mikejc}@us.ibm.com
  *    Copyright (c) 2001 Dave Engebretsen
  * Copyright (C) 2002 Anton Blanchard <anton@au.ibm.com>, IBM

arch/s390/kernel/head.S

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ __HEAD
 	.org   0x100
 #
 # subroutine for loading from tape
-# Paramters:
+# Parameters:
 #  R1 = device number
 #  R2 = load address
 .Lloader:

drivers/ata/libata-acpi.c

@@ -748,9 +748,9 @@ static int ata_acpi_run_tf(struct ata_device *dev,
 /**
  * ata_acpi_exec_tfs - get then write drive taskfile settings
  * @dev: target ATA device
- * @nr_executed: out paramter for the number of executed commands
+ * @nr_executed: out parameter for the number of executed commands
  *
- * Evaluate _GTF and excute returned taskfiles.
+ * Evaluate _GTF and execute returned taskfiles.
  *
  * LOCKING:
  * EH context.

drivers/ata/libata-eh.c

@@ -2864,7 +2864,7 @@ static int ata_eh_revalidate_and_attach(struct ata_link *link,
 /**
  *	ata_set_mode - Program timings and issue SET FEATURES - XFER
  *	@link: link on which timings will be programmed
- *	@r_failed_dev: out paramter for failed device
+ *	@r_failed_dev: out parameter for failed device
  *
  *	Set ATA device disk transfer mode (PIO3, UDMA6, etc.).  If
  *	ata_set_mode() fails, pointer to the failing device is

drivers/base/bus.c

@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ static struct device *next_device(struct klist_iter *i)
  *
  * NOTE: The device that returns a non-zero value is not retained
  * in any way, nor is its refcount incremented. If the caller needs
- * to retain this data, it should do, and increment the reference
+ * to retain this data, it should do so, and increment the reference
  * count in the supplied callback.
  */
 int bus_for_each_dev(struct bus_type *bus, struct device *start,

drivers/block/Kconfig

@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ config GDROM
 	  with up to 1 GB of data. This drive will also read standard CD ROM
 	  disks. Select this option to access any disks in your GD ROM drive.
 	  Most users will want to say "Y" here.
-	  You can also build this as a module which will be called gdrom.ko
+	  You can also build this as a module which will be called gdrom.
 
 source "drivers/block/paride/Kconfig"
 

drivers/char/Kconfig

@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ config HVCS
 	  this driver.
 
 	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
-	  module will be called hvcs.ko.  Additionally, this module
+	  module will be called hvcs.  Additionally, this module
 	  will depend on arch specific APIs exported from hvcserver.ko
 	  which will also be compiled when this driver is built as a
 	  module.

drivers/char/amiserial.c

@@ -779,7 +779,7 @@ static void change_speed(struct async_struct *info,
 		info->IER |= UART_IER_MSI;
 	}
 	/* TBD:
-	 * Does clearing IER_MSI imply that we should disbale the VBL interrupt ?
+	 * Does clearing IER_MSI imply that we should disable the VBL interrupt ?
 	 */
 
 	/*

drivers/connector/Kconfig

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ menuconfig CONNECTOR
 	  of the netlink socket protocol.
 
 	  Connector support can also be built as a module.  If so, the module
-	  will be called cn.ko.
+	  will be called cn.
 
 if CONNECTOR
 

drivers/crypto/Kconfig

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ config CRYPTO_DEV_PADLOCK_AES
 	  Available in VIA C3 and newer CPUs.
 
 	  If unsure say M. The compiled module will be
-	  called padlock-aes.ko
+	  called padlock-aes.
 
 config CRYPTO_DEV_PADLOCK_SHA
 	tristate "PadLock driver for SHA1 and SHA256 algorithms"
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ config CRYPTO_DEV_PADLOCK_SHA
 	  Available in VIA C7 and newer processors.
 
 	  If unsure say M. The compiled module will be
-	  called padlock-sha.ko
+	  called padlock-sha.
 
 config CRYPTO_DEV_GEODE
 	tristate "Support for the Geode LX AES engine"
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ config ZCRYPT_MONOLITHIC
 	bool "Monolithic zcrypt module"
 	depends on ZCRYPT="m"
 	help
-	  Select this option if you want to have a single module z90crypt.ko
+	  Select this option if you want to have a single module z90crypt,
 	  that contains all parts of the crypto device driver (ap bus,
 	  request router and all the card drivers).
 

drivers/edac/e752x_edac.c

@@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ static void e752x_init_sysbus_parity_mask(struct e752x_pvt *pvt)
 	struct pci_dev *dev = pvt->dev_d0f1;
 	int enable = 1;
 
-	/* Allow module paramter override, else see if CPU supports parity */
+	/* Allow module parameter override, else see if CPU supports parity */
 	if (sysbus_parity != -1) {
 		enable = sysbus_parity;
 	} else if (cpu_id[0] &&

drivers/ide/Kconfig

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ menuconfig IDE
 	  SMART parameters from disk drives.
 
 	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
-	  module will be called ide-core.ko.
+	  module will be called ide-core.
 
 	  For further information, please read <file:Documentation/ide/ide.txt>.
 

drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c

@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ static ide_startstop_t ide_transfer_pc(ide_drive_t *drive)
 
 		/*
 		 * If necessary schedule the packet transfer to occur 'timeout'
-		 * miliseconds later in ide_delayed_transfer_pc() after the
+		 * milliseconds later in ide_delayed_transfer_pc() after the
 		 * device says it's ready for a packet.
 		 */
 		if (drive->atapi_flags & IDE_AFLAG_ZIP_DRIVE) {

drivers/input/misc/Kconfig

@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ config INPUT_GPIO_ROTARY_ENCODER
 	depends on GPIOLIB && GENERIC_GPIO
 	help
 	  Say Y here to add support for rotary encoders connected to GPIO lines.
-	  Check file:Documentation/incput/rotary_encoder.txt for more
+	  Check file:Documentation/input/rotary-encoder.txt for more
 	  information.
 
 	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the

drivers/isdn/divert/isdn_divert.c

@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ int cf_command(int drvid, int mode,
           (mode != 1) ? "" : " 0 ",
           (mode != 1) ? "" : fwd_nr);
  
-  retval = divert_if.ll_cmd(&cs->ics); /* excute command */
+  retval = divert_if.ll_cmd(&cs->ics); /* execute command */
 
   if (!retval)
    { cs->prev = NULL;

drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_core.c

@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ dsp_control_req(struct dsp *dsp, struct mISDNhead *hh, struct sk_buff *skb)
 			break;
 		}
 		dsp->cmx_delay = (*((int *)data)) << 3;
-			/* miliseconds to samples */
+			/* milliseconds to samples */
 		if (dsp->cmx_delay >= (CMX_BUFF_HALF>>1))
 			/* clip to half of maximum usable buffer
 			(half of half buffer) */

drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/Kconfig

@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ config DVB_USB_TTUSB2
 	help
 	  Say Y here to support the Pinnacle 400e DVB-S USB2.0 receiver. The
 	  firmware protocol used by this module is similar to the one used by the
-	  old ttusb-driver - that's why the module is called dvb-usb-ttusb2.ko.
+	  old ttusb-driver - that's why the module is called dvb-usb-ttusb2.
 
 config DVB_USB_DTT200U
 	tristate "WideView WT-200U and WT-220U (pen) DVB-T USB2.0 support (Yakumo/Hama/Typhoon/Yuan)"

drivers/media/video/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c

@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ static int hdpvr_submit_buffers(struct hdpvr_device *dev)
 				 buff_list);
 		if (buf->status != BUFSTAT_AVAILABLE) {
 			v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev,
-				 "buffer not marked as availbale\n");
+				 "buffer not marked as available\n");
 			ret = -EFAULT;
 			goto err;
 		}

drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_history.txt

@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ mpi_ioc.h
  *  08-08-01  01.02.01  Original release for v1.2 work.
  *                      New format for FWVersion and ProductId in
  *                      MSG_IOC_FACTS_REPLY and MPI_FW_HEADER.
- *  08-31-01  01.02.02  Addded event MPI_EVENT_SCSI_DEVICE_STATUS_CHANGE and
+ *  08-31-01  01.02.02  Added event MPI_EVENT_SCSI_DEVICE_STATUS_CHANGE and
  *                      related structure and defines.
  *                      Added event MPI_EVENT_ON_BUS_TIMER_EXPIRED.
  *                      Added MPI_IOCINIT_FLAGS_DISCARD_FW_IMAGE.
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ mpi_ioc.h
  *  10-11-06  01.05.12  Added MPI_IOCFACTS_EXCEPT_METADATA_UNSUPPORTED.
  *                      Added MaxInitiators field to PortFacts reply.
  *                      Added SAS Device Status Change ReasonCode for
- *                      asynchronous notificaiton.
+ *                      asynchronous notification.
  *                      Added MPI_EVENT_SAS_EXPANDER_STATUS_CHANGE and event
  *                      data structure.
  *                      Added new ImageType values for FWDownload and FWUpload
@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ mpi_fc.h
  *  11-02-00  01.01.01  Original release for post 1.0 work
  *  12-04-00  01.01.02  Added messages for Common Transport Send and
  *                      Primitive Send.
- *  01-09-01  01.01.03  Modifed some of the new flags to have an MPI prefix
+ *  01-09-01  01.01.03  Modified some of the new flags to have an MPI prefix
  *                      and modified the FcPrimitiveSend flags.
  *  01-25-01  01.01.04  Move InitiatorIndex in LinkServiceRsp reply to a larger
  *                      field.

drivers/mtd/Kconfig

@@ -154,7 +154,8 @@ config MTD_AFS_PARTS
 
 	  You will still need the parsing functions to be called by the driver
 	  for your particular device. It won't happen automatically. The
-	  'armflash' map driver (CONFIG_MTD_ARMFLASH) does this, for example.
+	  'armflash' map driver (CONFIG_MTD_ARM_INTEGRATOR) does this, for
+	  example.
 
 config MTD_OF_PARTS
 	tristate "Flash partition map based on OF description"

drivers/mtd/devices/Kconfig

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ config MTD_MS02NV
 	  If you want to compile this driver as a module ( = code which can be
 	  inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
 	  say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>.
-	  The module will be called ms02-nv.ko.
+	  The module will be called ms02-nv.
 
 config MTD_DATAFLASH
 	tristate "Support for AT45xxx DataFlash"

drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig

@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ config MTD_NAND_BASLER_EXCITE
 	help
           This enables the driver for the NAND flash device found on the
           Basler eXcite Smart Camera. If built as a module, the driver
-          will be named "excite_nandflash.ko".
+          will be named excite_nandflash.
 
 config MTD_NAND_CAFE
 	tristate "NAND support for OLPC CAFÉ chip"
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ config MTD_NAND_CS553X
 	  controller is enabled for NAND, and currently requires that
 	  the controller be in MMIO mode.
 
-	  If you say "m", the module will be called "cs553x_nand.ko".
+	  If you say "m", the module will be called cs553x_nand.
 
 config MTD_NAND_ATMEL
 	tristate "Support for NAND Flash / SmartMedia on AT91 and AVR32"

drivers/net/Kconfig

@@ -1880,7 +1880,7 @@ config FEC_MPC52xx
 	---help---
 	  This option enables support for the MPC5200's on-chip
 	  Fast Ethernet Controller
-	  If compiled as module, it will be called 'fec_mpc52xx.ko'.
+	  If compiled as module, it will be called fec_mpc52xx.
 
 config FEC_MPC52xx_MDIO
 	bool "MPC52xx FEC MDIO bus driver"
@@ -1892,7 +1892,7 @@ config FEC_MPC52xx_MDIO
 	  (Motorola? industry standard).
 	  If your board uses an external PHY connected to FEC, enable this.
 	  If not sure, enable.
-	  If compiled as module, it will be called 'fec_mpc52xx_phy.ko'.
+	  If compiled as module, it will be called fec_mpc52xx_phy.
 
 config NE_H8300
 	tristate "NE2000 compatible support for H8/300"

drivers/net/appletalk/ltpc.c

@@ -1220,7 +1220,7 @@ static int __init ltpc_setup(char *str)
 		if (ints[0] > 2) {
 			dma = ints[3];
 		}
-		/* ignore any other paramters */
+		/* ignore any other parameters */
 	}
 	return 1;
 }

drivers/net/b44.h

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
 #define B44_DMARX_STAT	0x021CUL /* DMA RX Current Active Desc. + Status */
 #define  DMARX_STAT_CDMASK	0x00000fff /* Current Descriptor Mask */
 #define  DMARX_STAT_SMASK	0x0000f000 /* State Mask */
-#define  DMARX_STAT_SDISABLED	0x00000000 /* State Disbaled */
+#define  DMARX_STAT_SDISABLED	0x00000000 /* State Disabled */
 #define  DMARX_STAT_SACTIVE	0x00001000 /* State Active */
 #define  DMARX_STAT_SIDLE	0x00002000 /* State Idle Wait */
 #define  DMARX_STAT_SSTOPPED	0x00003000 /* State Stopped */

drivers/net/e100.c

@@ -2785,7 +2785,7 @@ static int e100_resume(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 	/* ack any pending wake events, disable PME */
 	pci_enable_wake(pdev, 0, 0);
 
-	/* disbale reverse auto-negotiation */
+	/* disable reverse auto-negotiation */
 	if (nic->phy == phy_82552_v) {
 		u16 smartspeed = mdio_read(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id,
 		                           E100_82552_SMARTSPEED);

drivers/net/e1000e/e1000.h

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ struct e1000_info;
 	e_printk(KERN_NOTICE, adapter, format, ## arg)
 
 
-/* Interrupt modes, as used by the IntMode paramter */
+/* Interrupt modes, as used by the IntMode parameter */
 #define E1000E_INT_MODE_LEGACY		0
 #define E1000E_INT_MODE_MSI		1
 #define E1000E_INT_MODE_MSIX		2

drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h

@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ struct ehea_qp_init_attr {
 };
 
 /*
- * Event Queue attributes, passed as paramter
+ * Event Queue attributes, passed as parameter
  */
 struct ehea_eq_attr {
 	u32 type;

drivers/net/igbvf/igbvf.h

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ struct igbvf_adapter;
 /* Interrupt defines */
 #define IGBVF_START_ITR                 648 /* ~6000 ints/sec */
 
-/* Interrupt modes, as used by the IntMode paramter */
+/* Interrupt modes, as used by the IntMode parameter */
 #define IGBVF_INT_MODE_LEGACY           0
 #define IGBVF_INT_MODE_MSI              1
 #define IGBVF_INT_MODE_MSIX             2

drivers/net/ipg.h

@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ enum ipg_regs {
 #define		IPG_DMALIST_ALIGN_PAD	0x07
 #define		IPG_MULTICAST_HASHTABLE_SIZE	0x40
 
-/* Number of miliseconds to wait after issuing a software reset.
+/* Number of milliseconds to wait after issuing a software reset.
  * 0x05 <= IPG_AC_RESETWAIT to account for proper 10Mbps operation.
  */
 #define         IPG_AC_RESETWAIT             0x05