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diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst index 26cf55303c61..5451a6d4c874 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ register/unregister functions:: hwmon_device_register_with_groups registers a hardware monitoring device. The first parameter of this function is a pointer to the parent device. The name parameter is a pointer to the hwmon device name. The registration -function wil create a name sysfs attribute pointing to this name. +function will create a name sysfs attribute pointing to this name. The drvdata parameter is the pointer to the local driver data. hwmon_device_register_with_groups will attach this pointer to the newly allocated hwmon device. The pointer can be retrieved by the driver using @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ functions is used. The header file linux/hwmon-sysfs.h provides a number of useful macros to declare and use hardware monitoring sysfs attributes. -In many cases, you can use the exsting define DEVICE_ATTR or its variants +In many cases, you can use the existing define DEVICE_ATTR or its variants DEVICE_ATTR_{RW,RO,WO} to declare such attributes. This is feasible if an attribute has no additional context. However, in many cases there will be additional information such as a sensor index which will need to be passed |