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Documentation: driver-api: correct spelling
Correct spelling problems for Documentation/driver-api/ as reported by codespell. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: nvdimm@lists.linux.dev Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org> Cc: dmaengine@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230129231053.20863-3-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/dmatest.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/hsi.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/md/md-cluster.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/md/raid5-cache.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/media/drivers/vidtv.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/media/dtv-demux.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-subdev.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/mei/nfc.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/nfc/nfc-hci.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/nvdimm.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/security.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/pin-control.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/pldmfw/index.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/serial/driver.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/surface_aggregator/ssh.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/thermal/intel_powerclamp.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/usb/dwc3.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/usb/usb3-debug-port.rst2
21 files changed, 24 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst
index 61b6f42ed0f1..2e8dfd1a66b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ through memory management dependencies which userspace is unaware of, which
randomly hangs workloads until the timeout kicks in. Workloads, which from
userspace's perspective, do not contain a deadlock. In such a mixed fencing
architecture there is no single entity with knowledge of all dependencies.
-Thefore preventing such deadlocks from within the kernel is not possible.
+Therefore preventing such deadlocks from within the kernel is not possible.
The only solution to avoid dependencies loops is by not allowing indefinite
fences in the kernel. This means:
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst
index bfd057b21a00..ecf139f73da4 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ The details of these operations are:
driver can ask for the pointer, maximum size and the currently used size of
the metadata and can directly update or read it.
- Becasue the DMA driver manages the memory area containing the metadata,
+ Because the DMA driver manages the memory area containing the metadata,
clients must make sure that they do not try to access or get the pointer
after their transfer completion callback has run for the descriptor.
If no completion callback has been defined for the transfer, then the
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/dmatest.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/dmatest.rst
index cf9859cd0b43..e2a63cefd783 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/dmatest.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/dmatest.rst
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ The following command returns the state of the test. ::
% cat /sys/module/dmatest/parameters/run
-To wait for test completion userpace can poll 'run' until it is false, or use
+To wait for test completion userspace can poll 'run' until it is false, or use
the wait parameter. Specifying 'wait=1' when loading the module causes module
initialization to pause until a test run has completed, while reading
/sys/module/dmatest/parameters/wait waits for any running test to complete
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/hsi.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/hsi.rst
index f9cec02b72a1..01b6bebfbd1a 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/hsi.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/hsi.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ High Speed Synchronous Serial Interface (HSI)
Introduction
---------------
-High Speed Syncronous Interface (HSI) is a fullduplex, low latency protocol,
+High Speed Synchronous Interface (HSI) is a full duplex, low latency protocol,
that is optimized for die-level interconnect between an Application Processor
and a Baseband chipset. It has been specified by the MIPI alliance in 2003 and
implemented by multiple vendors since then.
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ hsi-char Device
------------------
Each port automatically registers a generic client driver called hsi_char,
-which provides a charecter device for userspace representing the HSI port.
+which provides a character device for userspace representing the HSI port.
It can be used to communicate via HSI from userspace. Userspace may
configure the hsi_char device using the following ioctl commands:
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst
index a0cfb15988df..7274204b0435 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ This _wc variant returns a write-combining map to the page and may only be
used with mappings created by io_mapping_create_wc()
Temporary mappings are only valid in the context of the caller. The mapping
-is not guaranteed to be globaly visible.
+is not guaranteed to be globally visible.
io_mapping_map_local_wc() has a side effect on X86 32bit as it disables
migration to make the mapping code work. No caller can rely on this side
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ variant, although this may be significantly slower::
unsigned long offset)
This works like io_mapping_map_atomic/local_wc() except it has no side
-effects and the pointer is globaly visible.
+effects and the pointer is globally visible.
The mappings are released with::
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/md/md-cluster.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/md/md-cluster.rst
index 96eb52cec7eb..e93f35e0e157 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/md/md-cluster.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/md/md-cluster.rst
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ There are three groups of locks for managing the device:
2.3 new-device management
-------------------------
- A single lock: "no-new-dev" is used to co-ordinate the addition of
+ A single lock: "no-new-dev" is used to coordinate the addition of
new devices - this must be synchronized across the array.
Normally all nodes hold a concurrent-read lock on this device.
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/md/raid5-cache.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/md/raid5-cache.rst
index d7a15f44a7c3..5f947cbc2e78 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/md/raid5-cache.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/md/raid5-cache.rst
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ The write-through and write-back cache use the same disk format. The cache disk
is organized as a simple write log. The log consists of 'meta data' and 'data'
pairs. The meta data describes the data. It also includes checksum and sequence
ID for recovery identification. Data can be IO data and parity data. Data is
-checksumed too. The checksum is stored in the meta data ahead of the data. The
+checksummed too. The checksum is stored in the meta data ahead of the data. The
checksum is an optimization because MD can write meta and data freely without
worry about the order. MD superblock has a field pointed to the valid meta data
of log head.
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/media/drivers/vidtv.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/media/drivers/vidtv.rst
index 673bdff919ea..54f269f478d3 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/media/drivers/vidtv.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/media/drivers/vidtv.rst
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Currently, it consists of:
takes parameters at initialization that will dictate how the simulation
behaves.
-- Code reponsible for encoding a valid MPEG Transport Stream, which is then
+- Code responsible for encoding a valid MPEG Transport Stream, which is then
passed to the bridge driver. This fake stream contains some hardcoded content.
For now, we have a single, audio-only channel containing a single MPEG
Elementary Stream, which in turn contains a SMPTE 302m encoded sine-wave.
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/media/dtv-demux.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/media/dtv-demux.rst
index c0ae5dec5328..144124142622 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/media/dtv-demux.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/media/dtv-demux.rst
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ unless this is fixed in the HW platform.
The demux kABI only controls front-ends regarding to their connections with
demuxes; the kABI used to set the other front-end parameters, such as
-tuning, are devined via the Digital TV Frontend kABI.
+tuning, are defined via the Digital TV Frontend kABI.
The functions that implement the abstract interface demux should be defined
static or module private and registered to the Demux core for external
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-subdev.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-subdev.rst
index 6f8d79926aa5..8797037c4e2e 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-subdev.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-subdev.rst
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ response to video node operations. This hides the complexity of the underlying
hardware from applications. For complex devices, finer-grained control of the
device than what the video nodes offer may be required. In those cases, bridge
drivers that implement :ref:`the media controller API <media_controller>` may
-opt for making the subdevice operations directly accessible from userpace.
+opt for making the subdevice operations directly accessible from userspace.
Device nodes named ``v4l-subdev``\ *X* can be created in ``/dev`` to access
sub-devices directly. If a sub-device supports direct userspace configuration
@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ issues with subdevice drivers that let the V4L2 core manage the active state,
as they expect to receive the appropriate state as a parameter. To help the
conversion of subdevice drivers to a managed active state without having to
convert all callers at the same time, an additional wrapper layer has been
-added to v4l2_subdev_call(), which handles the NULL case by geting and locking
+added to v4l2_subdev_call(), which handles the NULL case by getting and locking
the callee's active state with :c:func:`v4l2_subdev_lock_and_get_active_state()`,
and unlocking the state after the call.
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/mei/nfc.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/mei/nfc.rst
index b5b6fc96f85e..8fe8664c28cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/mei/nfc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/mei/nfc.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
MEI NFC
-------
-Some Intel 8 and 9 Serieses chipsets supports NFC devices connected behind
+Some Intel 8 and 9 Series chipsets support NFC devices connected behind
the Intel Management Engine controller.
MEI client bus exposes the NFC chips as NFC phy devices and enables
binding with Microread and NXP PN544 NFC device driver from the Linux NFC
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/nfc/nfc-hci.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/nfc/nfc-hci.rst
index f10fe53aa9fe..486aa647c456 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/nfc/nfc-hci.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/nfc/nfc-hci.rst
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ LLC
Communication between the CPU and the chip often requires some link layer
protocol. Those are isolated as modules managed by the HCI layer. There are
-currently two modules : nop (raw transfert) and shdlc.
+currently two modules : nop (raw transfer) and shdlc.
A new llc must implement the following functions::
struct nfc_llc_ops {
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/nvdimm.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/nvdimm.rst
index be8587a558e1..ca16b5acbf30 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/nvdimm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/nvdimm.rst
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ LABEL:
Metadata stored on a DIMM device that partitions and identifies
(persistently names) capacity allocated to different PMEM namespaces. It
also indicates whether an address abstraction like a BTT is applied to
- the namepsace. Note that traditional partition tables, GPT/MBR, are
+ the namespace. Note that traditional partition tables, GPT/MBR, are
layered on top of a PMEM namespace, or an address abstraction like BTT
if present, but partition support is deprecated going forward.
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/security.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/security.rst
index 7aab71524116..eb3d35e6a95c 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/security.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/security.rst
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ passed in.
6. Freeze
---------
The freeze operation does not require any keys. The security config can be
-frozen by a user with root privelege.
+frozen by a user with root privilege.
7. Disable
----------
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/pin-control.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/pin-control.rst
index 0022e930e93e..4070f330f60a 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/pin-control.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/pin-control.rst
@@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ hardware and shall be put into different subsystems:
Depending on the exact HW register design, some functions exposed by the
GPIO subsystem may call into the pinctrl subsystem in order to
-co-ordinate register settings across HW modules. In particular, this may
+coordinate register settings across HW modules. In particular, this may
be needed for HW with separate GPIO and pin controller HW modules, where
e.g. GPIO direction is determined by a register in the pin controller HW
module rather than the GPIO HW module.
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/pldmfw/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/pldmfw/index.rst
index ad2c33ece30f..fd871b83f34f 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/pldmfw/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/pldmfw/index.rst
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Overview of the ``pldmfw`` library
The ``pldmfw`` library is intended to be used by device drivers for
implementing device flash update based on firmware files following the PLDM
-firwmare file format.
+firmware file format.
It is implemented using an ops table that allows device drivers to provide
the underlying device specific functionality.
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/serial/driver.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/serial/driver.rst
index 98d268555dcc..84b43061c11b 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/serial/driver.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/serial/driver.rst
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ console support.
Console Support
---------------
-The serial core provides a few helper functions. This includes identifing
+The serial core provides a few helper functions. This includes identifying
the correct port structure (via uart_get_console()) and decoding command line
arguments (uart_parse_options()).
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/surface_aggregator/ssh.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/surface_aggregator/ssh.rst
index bf007d6c9873..080f0a7a100c 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/surface_aggregator/ssh.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/surface_aggregator/ssh.rst
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ after the frame structure and before the payload. The payload is followed by
its own CRC (over all payload bytes). If the payload is not present (i.e.
the frame has ``LEN=0``), the CRC of the payload is still present and will
evaluate to ``0xffff``. The |LEN| field does not include any of the CRCs, it
-equals the number of bytes inbetween the CRC of the frame and the CRC of the
+equals the number of bytes between the CRC of the frame and the CRC of the
payload.
Additionally, the following fixed two-byte sequences are used:
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/thermal/intel_powerclamp.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/thermal/intel_powerclamp.rst
index 3f6dfb0b3ea6..d09fa41e07da 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/thermal/intel_powerclamp.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/thermal/intel_powerclamp.rst
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ migrated, unless the CPU is taken offline. In this case, threads
belong to the offlined CPUs will be terminated immediately.
Running as SCHED_FIFO and relatively high priority, also allows such
-scheme to work for both preemptable and non-preemptable kernels.
+scheme to work for both preemptible and non-preemptible kernels.
Alignment of idle time around jiffies ensures scalability for HZ
values. This effect can be better visualized using a Perf timechart.
The following diagram shows the behavior of kernel thread
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/usb/dwc3.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/usb/dwc3.rst
index 8b36ff11cef9..e3d6a620997f 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/usb/dwc3.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/usb/dwc3.rst
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ controller which can be configured in one of 4 ways:
4. Hub configuration
Linux currently supports several versions of this controller. In all
-likelyhood, the version in your SoC is already supported. At the time
+likelihood, the version in your SoC is already supported. At the time
of this writing, known tested versions range from 2.02a to 3.10a. As a
rule of thumb, anything above 2.02a should work reliably well.
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/usb/usb3-debug-port.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/usb/usb3-debug-port.rst
index b9fd131f4723..d4610457b052 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/usb/usb3-debug-port.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/usb/usb3-debug-port.rst
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ kernel boot parameter::
"earlyprintk=xdbc"
If there are multiple xHCI controllers in your system, you can
-append a host contoller index to this kernel parameter. This
+append a host controller index to this kernel parameter. This
index starts from 0.
Current design doesn't support DbC runtime suspend/resume. As