90 files changed, 304 insertions, 314 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
index 9f0bc3bfd776..f7c9262b2dc8 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
+++ b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ runtime memory footprint:
 
 Device Enumeration
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-As a rule, platform specific (and often board-specific) setup code wil
+As a rule, platform specific (and often board-specific) setup code will
 register platform devices:
 
         int platform_device_register(struct platform_device *pdev);
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ It's built from two components:
     * platform_device.id ... the device instance number, or else "-1"
       to indicate there's only one.
 
-These are catenated, so name/id "serial"/0 indicates bus_id "serial.0", and
+These are concatenated, so name/id "serial"/0 indicates bus_id "serial.0", and
 "serial/3" indicates bus_id "serial.3"; both would use the platform_driver
 named "serial".  While "my_rtc"/-1 would be bus_id "my_rtc" (no instance id)
 and use the platform_driver called "my_rtc".
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
index 7ba2baa165ff..5daa2aaec2c5 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Accessing legacy resources through sysfs
 ----------------------------------------
 
 Legacy I/O port and ISA memory resources are also provided in sysfs if the
-underlying platform supports them.  They're located in the PCI class heirarchy,
+underlying platform supports them.  They're located in the PCI class hierarchy,
 e.g.
 
         /sys/class/pci_bus/0000:17/
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index 4b3d6710c504..bb5306e9a5c3 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles.
            --- 6.1 Set variables to tweak the build to the architecture
            --- 6.2 Add prerequisites to archprepare:
            --- 6.3 List directories to visit when descending
-           --- 6.4 Architecture specific boot images
+           --- 6.4 Architecture-specific boot images
            --- 6.5 Building non-kbuild targets
            --- 6.6 Commands useful for building a boot image
            --- 6.7 Custom kbuild commands
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ more details, with real examples.
         Example:
                 obj-y += foo.o
 
-        This tell kbuild that there is one object in that directory, named
+        This tells kbuild that there is one object in that directory, named
         foo.o. foo.o will be built from foo.c or foo.S.
 
         If foo.o shall be built as a module, the variable obj-m is used.
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ more details, with real examples.
         Special rules are used when the kbuild infrastructure does
         not provide the required support. A typical example is
         header files generated during the build process.
-        Another example are the architecture specific Makefiles which
+        Another example are the architecture-specific Makefiles which
         need special rules to prepare boot images etc.
 
         Special rules are written as normal Make rules.
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ more details, with real examples.
                 #arch/i386/kernel/Makefile
                 vsyscall-flags += $(call ld-option, -Wl$(comma)--hash-style=sysv)
 
-        In the above example vsyscall-flags will be assigned the option
+        In the above example, vsyscall-flags will be assigned the option
         -Wl$(comma)--hash-style=sysv if it is supported by $(CC).
         The second argument is optional, and if supplied will be used
         if first argument is not supported.
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ more details, with real examples.
                 #arch/i386/Makefile
                 cflags-y += $(call cc-option,-march=pentium-mmx,-march=i586)
 
-        In the above example cflags-y will be assigned the option
+        In the above example, cflags-y will be assigned the option
         -march=pentium-mmx if supported by $(CC), otherwise -march=i586.
         The second argument to cc-option is optional, and if omitted,
         cflags-y will be assigned no value if first option is not supported.
@@ -750,10 +750,10 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
    located at the root of the obj tree.
    The very first objects linked are listed in head-y, assigned by
    arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile.
-7) Finally, the architecture specific part does any required post processing
+7) Finally, the architecture-specific part does any required post processing
    and builds the final bootimage.
    - This includes building boot records
-   - Preparing initrd images and thelike
+   - Preparing initrd images and the like
 
 
 --- 6.1 Set variables to tweak the build to the architecture
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
 
         $(head-y) lists objects to be linked first in vmlinux.
         $(libs-y) lists directories where a lib.a archive can be located.
-        The rest lists directories where a built-in.o object file can be
+        The rest list directories where a built-in.o object file can be
         located.
 
         $(init-y) objects will be located after $(head-y).
@@ -888,7 +888,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
         $(core-y), $(libs-y), $(drivers-y) and $(net-y).
 
         The top level Makefile defines values for all generic directories,
-        and arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile only adds architecture specific directories.
+        and arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile only adds architecture-specific directories.
 
         Example:
                 #arch/sparc64/Makefile
@@ -897,7 +897,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
                 drivers-$(CONFIG_OPROFILE)  += arch/sparc64/oprofile/
 
 
---- 6.4 Architecture specific boot images
+--- 6.4 Architecture-specific boot images
 
         An arch Makefile specifies goals that take the vmlinux file, compress
         it, wrap it in bootstrapping code, and copy the resulting files
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
         "$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=<dir>" is the recommended way to invoke
         make in a subdirectory.
 
-        There are no rules for naming architecture specific targets,
+        There are no rules for naming architecture-specific targets,
         but executing "make help" will list all relevant targets.
         To support this, $(archhelp) must be defined.
 
@@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
                         $(call if_changed,ld/objcopy/gzip)
 
         When the rule is evaluated, it is checked to see if any files
-        needs an update, or the command line has changed since the last
+        need an update, or the command line has changed since the last
         invocation. The latter will force a rebuild if any options
         to the executable have changed.
         Any target that utilises if_changed must be listed in $(targets),
@@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
                           assignment.
 
         The kbuild infrastructure for *lds file are used in several
-        architecture specific files.
+        architecture-specific files.
 
 
 === 7 Kbuild Variables
@@ -1133,7 +1133,7 @@ The top Makefile exports the following variables:
 
         This variable defines a place for the arch Makefiles to install
         the resident kernel image and System.map file.
-        Use this for architecture specific install targets.
+        Use this for architecture-specific install targets.
 
     INSTALL_MOD_PATH, MODLIB
 
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt
index b53bccbd9727..c68dafeda7a7 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 
-       Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or
-                                      
-                      Understanding the Linux Kernel.
-                                      
-               Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es>
-                                      
+    Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or
+
+                   Understanding the Linux Kernel.
+
+          Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es>
+
 /*
  * The latest version of this document may be found at:
  *   http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html
@@ -61,18 +61,18 @@
        13.-The Linux Kernel Sources, A.-Linux Data Structures, B.-The
        Alpha AXP Processor, C.-Useful Web and FTP Sites, D.-The GNU
        General Public License, Glossary". In short: a must have.
-       
-     * Title: "The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide"
-       Author: Michael K.Johnson and others.
-       URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
-       Keywords: everything!
-       Description: No more Postscript book-like version. Only HTML now.
-       Many people have contributed. The interface is similar to web
-       available mailing lists archives. You can find some articles and
-       then some mails asking questions about them and/or complementing
-       previous contributions. A little bit anarchic in this aspect, but
-       with some valuable information in some cases.
-       
+
+     * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition"
+       Author: Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet.
+       URL: http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html
+       Keywords: device drivers, modules, debugging, memory, hardware,
+       interrupt handling, char drivers, block drivers, kmod, mmap, DMA,
+       buses.
+       Description: O'Reilly's popular book, now also on-line under the
+       GNU Free Documentation License.
+       Notes: You can also buy it in paper-form from O'Reilly. See below
+       under BOOKS (Not on-line).
+
      * Title: "Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel"
        Author: Ivan T. Bowman.
        URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a1.html
@@ -81,17 +81,17 @@
        Description: Conceptual software arquitecture of the Linux kernel,
        automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good
        figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding.
-       
+
      * Title: "Concrete Architecture of the Linux Kernel"
        Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Saheem Siddiqi, and Meyer C. Tanuan.
        URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a2.html
-       Keywords: concrete arquitecture, extracted design, reverse
+       Keywords: concrete architecture, extracted design, reverse
        engineering, system structure, dependencies.
-       Description: Concrete arquitecture of the Linux kernel,
+       Description: Concrete architecture of the Linux kernel,
        automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good
        figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding. This papers
        focus on lower details than its predecessor (files, variables...).
-       
+
      * Title: "Linux as a Case Study: Its Extracted Software
        Architecture"
        Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Richard C. Holt and Neil V. Brewster.
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
        Description: Paper appeared at ICSE'99, Los Angeles, May 16-22,
        1999. A mixture of the previous two documents from the same
        author.
-       
+
      * Title: "Overview of the Virtual File System"
        Author: Richard Gooch.
        URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/vfs.txt
@@ -111,20 +111,20 @@
        What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or
        mounting a file system and description of important data
        structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries.
-       
+
      * Title: "The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code"
        Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
-       URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue44/2391.html
+       URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
        Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
        Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
        abstract: "A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
        RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the
        Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
        secondary-storage capability using software".
-       
+
      * Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers"
        Author: Alessandro Rubini.
-       URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue23/1219.html
+       URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
        Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
        allocating resources.
        Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
@@ -134,10 +134,10 @@
        loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the
        topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's
        installment".
-       
+
      * Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Discovery"
        Author: Alessandro Rubini.
-       URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue24/1220.html
+       URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
        Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
        autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
        open(), close().
@@ -146,20 +146,20 @@
        the actual code to create custom module implementing a character
        device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
        cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls".
-       
+
      * Title: "The Devil's in the Details"
        Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
-       URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue25/1221.html
+       URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
        Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
        blocking mode, interrupt handler.
        Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
        abstract: "This article, the third of four on writing character
        device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using
        ioctl-calls".
-       
+
      * Title: "Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA"
        Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
-       URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue26/1222.html
+       URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
        Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
        Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
        abstract: "This is the fourth in a series of articles about
@@ -170,10 +170,10 @@
        writing, and several different facilities have been provided for
        different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of
        DMA".
-       
+
      * Title: "Device Drivers Concluded"
        Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
-       URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue28/1287.html
+       URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
        Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
        demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
        virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
@@ -182,10 +182,10 @@
        five articles about character device drivers. In this final
        section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with
        an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts".
-       
+
      * Title: "Network Buffers And Memory Management"
        Author: Alan Cox.
-       URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue30/1312.html
+       URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
        Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
        variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
        configuration, multicast.
@@ -214,28 +214,26 @@
        of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe
        the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
        envisage".
-       
+
      * Title: "Programming PCI-Devices under Linux"
        Author: Claus Schroeter.
        URL:
-       ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps
-       .gz
+       ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps.gz
        Keywords: PCI, device, busmastering.
        Description: 6 pages tutorial on PCI programming under Linux.
        Gives the basic concepts on the architecture of the PCI subsystem,
        as long as basic functions and macros to read/write the devices
        and perform busmastering.
-       
+
      * Title: "Writing Character Device Driver for Linux"
        Author: R. Baruch and C. Schroeter.
        URL:
-       ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers
-       .ps.gz
+       ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers.ps.gz
        Keywords: character device drivers, I/O, signals, DMA, accessing
        ports in user space, kernel environment.
        Description: 68 pages paper on writing character drivers. A little
        bit old (1.993, 1.994) although still useful.
-       
+
      * Title: "Design and Implementation of the Second Extended
        Filesystem"
        Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
@@ -249,14 +247,14 @@
        e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
        Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
        First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
-       
+
      * Title: "Analysis of the Ext2fs structure"
        Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
-       URL: http://step.polymtl.ca/~ldd/ext2fs/ext2fs_toc.html
+       URL: http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/files/FileSystems/ext2fs/
        Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
        Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
        bitmaps, invariants...
-       
+
      * Title: "Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem"
        Author: Stephen C. Tweedie.
        URL:
@@ -265,7 +263,7 @@
        Description: Excellent 8-pages paper explaining the journaling
        capabilities added to ext2 by the author, showing different
        problems faced and the alternatives chosen.
-       
+
      * Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.0 to 2.2"
        Author: Richard Gooch.
        URL:
@@ -273,7 +271,7 @@
        Keywords: 2.2, changes.
        Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed
        from 2.0.x to 2.2.x.
-       
+
      * Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.2 to 2.4"
        Author: Richard Gooch.
        URL:
@@ -345,17 +343,7 @@
        Notes: Beware: the main page states: "This document may not be
        published, printed or used in excerpts without explicit permission
        of the author". Fortunately, it may still be read...
-       
-     * Title: "Tour Of the Linux Kernel Source"
-       Author: Vijo Cherian.
-       URL: http://www.geocities.com/vijoc/tolks/tolks.html
-       Keywords: .
-       Description: A classic of this page! Was lost for a while and is
-       back again. Thanks Vijo! TOLKS: the name says it all. A tour of
-       the sources, describing directories, files, variables, data
-       structures... It covers general stuff, device drivers,
-       filesystems, IPC and Networking Code.
-       
+
      * Title: "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary"
        Author: various
        URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/
@@ -377,7 +365,17 @@
        kernels, but most of it applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly
        different". Freely redistributable under the conditions of the GNU
        General Public License.
-       
+
+     * Title: "Global spinlock list and usage"
+       Author: Rick Lindsley.
+       URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock
+       Keywords: spinlock.
+       Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and
+       usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive
+       list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions
+       access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it
+       is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held...
+
      * Title: "Porting Linux 2.0 Drivers To Linux 2.2: Changes and New
        Features "
        Author: Alan Cox.
@@ -385,70 +383,70 @@
        Keywords: ports, porting.
        Description: Article from Linux Magazine on porting from 2.0 to
        2.2 kernels.
-       
+
      * Title: "Porting Device Drivers To Linux 2.2: part II"
        Author: Alan Cox.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-06/gear_01.html
        Keywords: ports, porting.
        Description: Second part on porting from 2.0 to 2.2 kernels.
-       
+
      * Title: "How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power
        Macintosh"
        Author: Paul Mackerras.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-07/gear_01.html
        Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility.
        Description: The title says it all.
-       
+
      * Title: "An Introduction to SCSI Drivers"
        Author: Alan Cox.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-08/gear_01.html
        Keywords: SCSI, device, driver.
        Description: The title says it all.
-       
+
      * Title: "Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales"
        Author: Alan Cox.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-09/gear_01.html
        Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced.
        Description: The title says it all.
-       
+
      * Title: "Writing Linux Mouse Drivers"
        Author: Alan Cox.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-10/gear_01.html
        Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm.
        Description: The title says it all.
-       
+
      * Title: "More on Mouse Drivers"
        Author: Alan Cox.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-11/gear_01.html
        Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O.
        Description: The title still says it all.
-       
+
      * Title: "Writing Video4linux Radio Driver"
        Author: Alan Cox.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-12/gear_01.html
        Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
        Description: The title says it all.
-       
+
      * Title: "Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device"
        Author: Alan Cox.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-01/gear_01.html
        Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
        camera driver.
        Description: The title says it all.
-       
+
      * Title: "Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices"
        Author: Alan Cox.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-02/gear_01.html
        Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
        camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
        Description: The title says it all.
-       
+
      * Title: "PCI Management in Linux 2.2"
        Author: Alan Cox.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-03/gear_01.html
        Keywords: PCI, bus, bus-mastering.
        Description: The title says it all.
-       
+
      * Title: "Linux 2.4 Kernel Internals"
        Author: Tigran Aivazian and Christoph Hellwig.
        URL: http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/lki.html
@@ -456,13 +454,11 @@
        Description: A little book used for a short training course.
        Covers building the kernel image, booting (including SMP bootup),
        process management, VFS and more.
-       
+
      * Title: "Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and
        Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack."
        Author: Glenn Herrin.
-       URL:
-       http://kernelnewbies.org/documents/ipnetworking/linuxipnetworking.
-       html
+       URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin
        Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection,
        socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets,
        modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
@@ -495,7 +491,7 @@
        drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also
        describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
        Card Services.
-       
+
      * Title: "The Linux Kernel NFSD Implementation"
        Author: Neil Brown.
        URL:
@@ -591,47 +587,22 @@
        Pages: 520.
        ISBN: 2-212-08932-5
        Notes: French.
-       
-     * Title: "The Linux Kernel Book"
-       Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
-       Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.
-       Date: 1998.
-       ISBN: 0-471-98141-9
-       Notes: English translation.
-       
-     * Title: "Linux 2.0"
-       Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
-       Publisher: Gestión 2000.
-       Date: 1997.
-       Pages: 501.
-       ISBN: 8-480-88208-5
-       Notes: Spanish translation.
-       
+
      * Title: "Unix internals -- the new frontiers"
        Author: Uresh Vahalia.
        Publisher: Prentice Hall.
        Date: 1996.
        Pages: 600.
        ISBN: 0-13-101908-2
-       
-     * Title: "Linux Core Kernel Commentary. Guide to Insider's Knowledge
-       on the Core Kernel of the Linux Code"
-       Author: Scott Maxwell.
-       Publisher: Coriolis.
-       Date: 1999.
-       Pages: 592.
-       ISBN: 1-57610-469-9
-       Notes: CD-ROM included. Line by line commentary of the kernel
-       code.
-       
-     * Title: "Linux IP Stacks Commentary"
-       Author: Stephen Satchell and HBJ Clifford.
-       Publisher: Coriolis.
-       Date: 2000.
-       Pages: ???.
-       ISBN: 1-57610-470-2
-       Notes: Line by line source code commentary book.
-       
+
+     * Title:  "The  Design  and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX
+       Operating System"
+       Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels,
+       John S. Quarterman.
+       Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
+       Date: 1996.
+       ISBN: 0-201-54979-4
+
      * Title: "Programming for the real world - POSIX.4"
        Author: Bill O. Gallmeister.
        Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc..
@@ -640,18 +611,32 @@
        ISBN: I-56592-074-0
        Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be
        POSIX. Good reference.
-       
-     * Title: "Understanding the Linux Kernel"
-       Author: Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati.
-       Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc..
-       Date: 2000.
-       Pages: 702.
-       ISBN: 0-596-00002-2
-       Notes: Further information in
-       http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/
-       
+
+     * Title:  "UNIX  Systems  for  Modern Architectures: Symmetric
+       Multiprocesssing and Caching for Kernel Programmers"
+       Author: Curt Schimmel.
+       Publisher: Addison Wesley.
+       Date: June, 1994.
+       Pages: 432.
+       ISBN: 0-201-63338-8
+
+     * Title:  "The  Design  and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX
+       Operating System"
+       Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J.
+       Karels, John S. Quarterman.
+       Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
+       Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990).
+       ISBN: 0-201-06196-1
+
+     * Title: "The Design of the UNIX Operating System"
+       Author: Maurice J. Bach.
+       Publisher: Prentice Hall.
+       Date: 1986.
+       Pages: 471.
+       ISBN: 0-13-201757-1
+
      MISCELLANEOUS:
-   
+
      * Name: linux/Documentation
        Author: Many.
        URL: Just look inside your kernel sources.
@@ -660,7 +645,7 @@
        inside the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document
        (including this document itself) have been moved there, and might
        be more up to date than the web version.
-       
+
      * Name: "Linux Source Driver"
        URL: http://lsd.linux.cz
        Keywords: Browsing source code.
@@ -671,7 +656,7 @@
        you can search Linux kernel (fulltext, macros, types, functions
        and variables) and LSD can generate patches for you on the fly
        (files, directories or kernel)".
-       
+
      * Name: "Linux Kernel Source Reference"
        Author: Thomas Graichen.
        URL: http://innominate.org/~graichen/projects/lksr/
@@ -681,27 +666,27 @@
        sources of any version starting from 1.0 up to the (daily updated)
        current version available. Also you can check the differences
        between two versions of a file".
-       
+
      * Name: "Cross-Referencing Linux"
        URL: http://lxr.linux.no/source/
        Keywords: Browsing source code.
        Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser.
        Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see
        where they are defined and where they are used.
-       
+
      * Name: "Linux Weekly News"
        URL: http://lwn.net
        Keywords: latest kernel news.
        Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section
        summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions
        produced during the week. Published every Thursday.
-       
+
      * Name: "Kernel Traffic"
-       URL: http://www.kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/
+       URL: http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/
        Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list, weekly kernel news.
        Description: Weekly newsletter covering the most relevant
        discussions of the linux-kernel mailing list.
-       
+
      * Name: "CuTTiNG.eDGe.LiNuX"
        URL: http://edge.kernelnotes.org
        Keywords: changelist.
@@ -709,7 +694,7 @@
        release. What's new, what's better, what's changed. Myrdraal reads
        the patches and describes them. Pointers to the patches are there,
        too.
-       
+
      * Name: "New linux-kernel Mailing List FAQ"
        URL: http://www.tux.org/lkml/
        Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list FAQ.
@@ -719,7 +704,7 @@
        it. Read it to see how to join the mailing list. Dozens of
        interesting questions regarding the list, Linux, developers (who
        is ...?), terms (what is...?) are answered here too. Just read it.
-       
+
      * Name: "Linux Virtual File System"
        Author: Peter J. Braam.
        URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/
@@ -727,10 +712,10 @@
        Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the
        Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
        dcache.
-       
+
      * Name: "Gary's Encyclopedia - The Linux Kernel"
        Author: Gary (I suppose...).
-       URL: http://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/kernel.html
+       URL: http://www.lisoleg.net/cgi-bin/lisoleg.pl?view=kernel.htm
        Keywords: links, not found here?.
        Description: Gary's Encyclopedia exists to allow the rapid finding
        of documentation and other information of interest to GNU/Linux
@@ -738,7 +723,7 @@
        categories. This link is for kernel-specific links, documents,
        sites... Look there if you could not find here what you were
        looking for.
-       
+
      * Name: "The home page of Linux-MM"
        Author: The Linux-MM team.
        URL: http://linux-mm.org/
@@ -747,7 +732,7 @@
        Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development.
        Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss
        it if you are interested in memory management development!
-       
+
      * Name: "Kernel Newbies IRC Channel"
        URL: http://www.kernelnewbies.org
        Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts.
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 35470de14a95..c479d30eeaa3 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -864,7 +864,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                         Format: <1-256>
 
         maxcpus=        [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
-                        should make use of
+                        should make use of.
+                        Using "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0" will disable SMP
+                        entirely (the MPS table probe still happens, though).
+                        A command-line option of "maxcpus=<NUM>", where <NUM>
+                        is an integer greater than 0, limits the maximum number
+                        of CPUs activated in SMP mode to <NUM>.
+                        Using "maxcpus=1" on an SMP kernel is the trivial
+                        case of an SMP kernel with only one CPU.
 
         max_addr=[KMG]  [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater than or
                         equal to this physical address is ignored.
diff --git a/Documentation/sh/new-machine.txt b/Documentation/sh/new-machine.txt
index 73988e0d112b..5482bf5d005b 100644
--- a/Documentation/sh/new-machine.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sh/new-machine.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ of the board-specific code (with the exception of stboards) ended up
 in arch/sh/kernel/ directly, with board-specific headers ending up in
 include/asm-sh/. For the new kernel, things are broken out by board type,
 companion chip type, and CPU type. Looking at a tree view of this directory
-heirarchy looks like the following:
+hierarchy looks like the following:
 
 Board-specific code:
 
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ overloading), and you can feel free to name the directory after the family
 member itself.
 
 There are a few things that each board is required to have, both in the
-arch/sh/boards and the include/asm-sh/ heirarchy. In order to better
+arch/sh/boards and the include/asm-sh/ hierarchy. In order to better
 explain this, we use some examples for adding an imaginary board. For
 setup code, we're required at the very least to provide definitions for
 get_system_type() and platform_setup(). For our imaginary board, this
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options b/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
index bb7c2cac7917..5ef75787f83a 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ bttv.o
                 i2c_udelay=     Allow reduce I2C speed. Default is 5 usecs
                                 (meaning 66,67 Kbps). The default is the
                                 maximum supported speed by kernel bitbang
-                                algoritm. You may use lower numbers, if I2C
+                                algorithm. You may use lower numbers, if I2C
                                 messages are lost (16 is known to work on
                                 all supported cards).
 
diff --git a/README b/README
index 46a66c6e76df..159912cf5155 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ ON WHAT HARDWARE DOES IT RUN?
   today Linux also runs on (at least) the Compaq Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC and
   UltraSPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, PowerPC64, ARM, Hitachi SuperH, Cell,
   IBM S/390, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Intel IA-64, DEC VAX, AMD x86-64, AXIS CRIS,
-  Cris, Xtensa, AVR32 and Renesas M32R architectures.
+  Xtensa, AVR32 and Renesas M32R architectures.
 
   Linux is easily portable to most general-purpose 32- or 64-bit architectures
   as long as they have a paged memory management unit (PMMU) and a port of the
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 8bf97e0eacdb..4409561ea32c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ source arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
 
 config IWMMXT
         bool "Enable iWMMXt support"
-        depends CPU_XSCALE || CPU_XSC3
+        depends on CPU_XSCALE || CPU_XSC3
         default y if PXA27x
         help
           Enable support for iWMMXt context switching at run time if
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
index 4b277199d0e8..e684e9b38216 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ config CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
           of your chipset/board/processor.
 
 config CPU_HIGH_VECTOR
-        depends !MMU && CPU_CP15 && !CPU_ARM740T
+        depends on !MMU && CPU_CP15 && !CPU_ARM740T
         bool "Select the High exception vector"
         default n
         help
diff --git a/arch/cris/arch-v10/drivers/pcf8563.c b/arch/cris/arch-v10/drivers/pcf8563.c
index 107796e50149..d47cfbf98d6e 100644
--- a/arch/cris/arch-v10/drivers/pcf8563.c
+++ b/arch/cris/arch-v10/drivers/pcf8563.c
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ pcf8563_register(void)
 {
         pcf8563_init();
         if (register_chrdev(PCF8563_MAJOR, DEVICE_NAME, &pcf8563_fops) < 0) {
-                printk(KERN_INFO "%s: Unable to get major numer %d for RTC device.\n",
+                printk(KERN_INFO "%s: Unable to get major number %d for RTC device.\n",
                        PCF8563_NAME, PCF8563_MAJOR);
                 return -1;
         }
diff --git a/arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/pcf8563.c b/arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/pcf8563.c
index 544ab0179411..24b919b3821a 100644
--- a/arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/pcf8563.c
+++ b/arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/pcf8563.c
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ pcf8563_init(void)
                 goto err;
 
         if (register_chrdev(PCF8563_MAJOR, DEVICE_NAME, &pcf8563_fops) < 0) {
-                printk(KERN_INFO "%s: Unable to get major numer %d for RTC device.\n",
+                printk(KERN_INFO "%s: Unable to get major number %d for RTC device.\n",
                        PCF8563_NAME, PCF8563_MAJOR);
                 return -1;
         }
diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c b/arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c
index 881951ca03e1..ce4fda261aaf 100644
--- a/arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c
+++ b/arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <endian.h>
 
 #define MAX_SHDRS 100
+#define ARRAY_SIZE(x) (sizeof(x) / sizeof((x)[0]))
 static Elf32_Ehdr ehdr;
 static Elf32_Shdr shdr[MAX_SHDRS];
 static Elf32_Sym  *symtab[MAX_SHDRS];
@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ static const char *sym_type(unsigned type)
 #undef SYM_TYPE
         };
         const char *name = "unknown sym type name";
-        if (type < sizeof(type_name)/sizeof(type_name[0])) {
+        if (type < ARRAY_SIZE(type_name)) {
                 name = type_name[type];
         }
         return name;
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ static const char *sym_bind(unsigned bind)
 #undef SYM_BIND
         };
         const char *name = "unknown sym bind name";
-        if (bind < sizeof(bind_name)/sizeof(bind_name[0])) {
+        if (bind < ARRAY_SIZE(bind_name)) {
                 name = bind_name[bind];
         }
         return name;
@@ -104,7 +105,7 @@ static const char *sym_visibility(unsigned visibility)
 #undef SYM_VISIBILITY
         };
         const char *name = "unknown sym visibility name";
-        if (visibility < sizeof(visibility_name)/sizeof(visibility_name[0])) {
+        if (visibility < ARRAY_SIZE(visibility_name)) {
                 name = visibility_name[visibility];
         }
         return name;
@@ -128,7 +129,7 @@ static const char *rel_type(unsigned type)
 #undef REL_TYPE
         };
         const char *name = "unknown type rel type name";
-        if (type < sizeof(type_name)/sizeof(type_name[0])) {
+        if (type < ARRAY_SIZE(type_name)) {
                 name = type_name[type];
         }
         return name;
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/topology.c b/arch/i386/kernel/topology.c
index 79cf608e14ca..45782356a618 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/topology.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * arch/i386/kernel/topology.c - Populate driverfs with topology information
+ * arch/i386/kernel/topology.c - Populate sysfs with topology information
  *
  * Written by: Matthew Dobson, IBM Corporation
  * Original Code: Paul Dorwin, IBM Corporation, Patrick Mochel, OSDL
diff --git a/arch/i386/oprofile/nmi_int.c b/arch/i386/oprofile/nmi_int.c
index 3700eef78743..8fda7be9dd4d 100644
--- a/arch/i386/oprofile/nmi_int.c
+++ b/arch/i386/oprofile/nmi_int.c
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ static struct sys_device device_oprofile = {
 };
 
 
-static int __init init_driverfs(void)
+static int __init init_sysfs(void)
 {
         int error;
         if (!(error = sysdev_class_register(&oprofile_sysclass)))
@@ -72,15 +72,15 @@ static int __init init_driverfs(void)
 }
 
 
-static void exit_driverfs(void)
+static void exit_sysfs(void)
 {
         sysdev_unregister(&device_oprofile);
         sysdev_class_unregister(&oprofile_sysclass);
 }
 
 #else
-#define init_driverfs() do { } while (0)
-#define exit_driverfs() do { } while (0)
+#define init_sysfs() do { } while (0)
+#define exit_sysfs() do { } while (0)
 #endif /* CONFIG_PM */
 
 static int profile_exceptions_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ static int __init ppro_init(char ** cpu_type)
         return 1;
 }
 
-/* in order to get driverfs right */
+/* in order to get sysfs right */
 static int using_nmi;
 
 int __init op_nmi_init(struct oprofile_operations *ops)
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ int __init op_nmi_init(struct oprofile_operations *ops)
                         return -ENODEV;
         }
 
-        init_driverfs();
+        init_sysfs();
         using_nmi = 1;
         ops->create_files = nmi_create_files;
         ops->setup = nmi_setup;
@@ -456,5 +456,5 @@ int __init op_nmi_init(struct oprofile_operations *ops)
 void op_nmi_exit(void)
 {
         if (using_nmi)
-                exit_driverfs();
+                exit_sysfs();
 }
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
index 2ecb20b551e1..9ddf896a137a 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
  * in UP:
  *      - we need to protect against PMU overflow interrupts (local_irq_disable)
  *
- * spin_lock_irqsave()/spin_lock_irqrestore():
+ * spin_lock_irqsave()/spin_unlock_irqrestore():
  *      in SMP: local_irq_disable + spin_lock
  *      in UP : local_irq_disable
  *
diff --git a/arch/m32r/lib/usercopy.c b/arch/m32r/lib/usercopy.c
index 896cef1aca5f..82abd159dbef 100644
--- a/arch/m32r/lib/usercopy.c
+++ b/arch/m32r/lib/usercopy.c
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ long strnlen_user(const char __user *s, long n)
                 : "0" (n), "1" (s), "r" (n & 3), "r" (mask), "r"(0x01010101)
                 : "r0", "r1", "cbit");
 
-        /* NOTE: strnlen_user() algorism:
+        /* NOTE: strnlen_user() algorithm:
          * {
          *   char *p;
          *   for (p = s; n-- && *p != '\0'; ++p)
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ long strnlen_user(const char __user *s, long n)
                 : "0" (n), "1" (s), "r" (n & 3), "r" (mask), "r"(0x01010101)
                 : "r0", "r1", "r2", "r3", "cbit");
 
-        /* NOTE: strnlen_user() algorism:
+        /* NOTE: strnlen_user() algorithm:
          * {
          *   char *p;
          *   for (p = s; n-- && *p != '\0'; ++p)
diff --git a/arch/m68knommu/platform/5307/timers.c b/arch/m68knommu/platform/5307/timers.c
index 87b112b363a6..92e58070b016 100644
--- a/arch/m68knommu/platform/5307/timers.c
+++ b/arch/m68knommu/platform/5307/timers.c
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ unsigned long coldfire_timer_offset(void)
 
 /*
  *      Choose a reasonably fast profile timer. Make it an odd value to
- *      try and get good coverage of kernal operations.
+ *      try and get good coverage of kernel operations.
  */
 #define PROFILEHZ       1013
 
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/mips/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index e0ad754c7edd..8f42fa85ac9e 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>
 
-const extern unsigned char relocate_new_kernel[];
-const extern unsigned int relocate_new_kernel_size;
+extern const unsigned char relocate_new_kernel[];
+extern const unsigned int relocate_new_kernel_size;
 
 extern unsigned long kexec_start_address;
 extern unsigned long kexec_indirection_page;
diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/topology.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/topology.c
index 068b20d822e7..d71cb018a21e 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/topology.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * arch/parisc/kernel/topology.c - Populate driverfs with topology information
+ * arch/parisc/kernel/topology.c - Populate sysfs with topology information
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
index 76b5d7ebdcc6..9d0735a54564 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ void rtas_progress(char *s, unsigned short hex)
         char *os;
         static int display_character, set_indicator;
         static int display_width, display_lines, form_feed;
-        const static int *row_width;
+        static const int *row_width;
         static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(progress_lock);
         static int current_line;
         static int pending_newline = 0;  /* did last write end with unprinted newline? */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
index 262790910ff2..e86c37c82cfd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_node_to_nid);
  * characteristics relative to its multiple connections.  We ignore
  * this for now.  We also assume that all cpu and memory sets have
  * their distances represented at a common level.  This won't be
- * true for heirarchical NUMA.
+ * true for hierarchical NUMA.
  *
  * In any case the ibm,associativity-reference-points should give
  * the correct depth for a normal NUMA system.
diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh2/clock-sh7619.c b/arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh2/clock-sh7619.c
index d0440b269702..d2c157917999 100644
--- a/arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh2/clock-sh7619.c
+++ b/arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh2/clock-sh7619.c
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
 #include <asm/freq.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
 
-const static int pll1rate[]={1,2};
-const static int pfc_divisors[]={1,2,0,4};
+static const int pll1rate[] = {1,2};
+static const int pfc_divisors[] = {1,2,0,4};
 
 #if (CONFIG_SH_CLK_MD == 1) || (CONFIG_SH_CLK_MD == 2)
 #define PLL2 (4)
diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh2a/clock-sh7206.c b/arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh2a/clock-sh7206.c
index a9ad309c6a33..82d7f991ef6b 100644
--- a/arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh2a/clock-sh7206.c
+++ b/arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh2a/clock-sh7206.c
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
 #include <asm/freq.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
 
-const static int pll1rate[]={1,2,3,4,6,8};
-const static int pfc_divisors[]={1,2,3,4,6,8,12};
+static const int pll1rate[]={1,2,3,4,6,8};
+static const int pfc_divisors[]={1,2,3,4,6,8,12};
 #define ifc_divisors pfc_divisors
 
 #if (CONFIG_SH_CLK_MD == 2)
diff --git a/arch/v850/Kconfig b/arch/v850/Kconfig
index dbfab8fc9b49..50ccc7f57cd0 100644
--- a/arch/v850/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/v850/Kconfig
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ menu "Processor type and features"
    # Some platforms pre-zero memory, in which case the kernel doesn't need to
    config ZERO_BSS
           bool
-          depends !V850E2_SIM85E2C
+          depends on !V850E2_SIM85E2C
           default y
 
    # The crappy-ass zone allocator requires that the start of allocatable
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
index a87c51705620..c9addcfb96dc 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ static struct sysdev_class timer_sysclass = {
         set_kset_name("timer"),
 };
 
-/* XXX this driverfs stuff should probably go elsewhere later -john */
+/* XXX this sysfs stuff should probably go elsewhere later -john */
 static struct sys_device device_timer = {
         .id     = 0,
         .cls    = &timer_sysclass,
diff --git a/block/Kconfig.iosched b/block/Kconfig.iosched
index 903f0d3b6852..7e803fc88770 100644
--- a/block/Kconfig.iosched
+++ b/block/Kconfig.iosched
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ config IOSCHED_AS
         tristate "Anticipatory I/O scheduler"
         default y
         ---help---
-          The anticipatory I/O scheduler is the default disk scheduler. It is
-          generally a good choice for most environments, but is quite large and
-          complex when compared to the deadline I/O scheduler, it can also be
-          slower in some cases especially some database loads.
+          The anticipatory I/O scheduler is generally a good choice for most
+          environments, but is quite large and complex when compared to the
+          deadline I/O scheduler, it can also be slower in some cases
+          especially some database loads.
 
 config IOSCHED_DEADLINE
         tristate "Deadline I/O scheduler"
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ config IOSCHED_CFQ
           The CFQ I/O scheduler tries to distribute bandwidth equally
           among all processes in the system. It should provide a fair
           working environment, suitable for desktop systems.
+          This is the default I/O scheduler.
 
 choice
         prompt "Default I/O scheduler"
diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c
index 7fd095efaebd..fe7ef3394144 100644
--- a/drivers/base/cpu.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static SYSDEV_ATTR(crash_notes, 0400, show_crash_notes, NULL);
 #endif
 
 /*
- * register_cpu - Setup a driverfs device for a CPU.
+ * register_cpu - Setup a sysfs device for a CPU.
  * @cpu - cpu->hotpluggable field set to 1 will generate a control file in
  *        sysfs for this CPU.
  * @num - CPU number to use when creating the device.
diff --git a/drivers/base/node.c b/drivers/base/node.c
index 475e33f76e0d..cae346ef1b20 100644
--- a/drivers/base/node.c
+++ b/drivers/base/node.c
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ static SYSDEV_ATTR(distance, S_IRUGO, node_read_distance, NULL);
 
 
 /*
- * register_node - Setup a driverfs device for a node.
+ * register_node - Setup a sysfs device for a node.
  * @num - Node number to use when creating the device.
  *
  * Initialize and register the node device.
diff --git a/drivers/char/rio/rio_linux.c b/drivers/char/rio/rio_linux.c
index 85c161845260..294e9cb0c449 100644
--- a/drivers/char/rio/rio_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/char/rio/rio_linux.c
@@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ static int __init rio_init(void)
                                 rio_dprintk(RIO_DEBUG_INIT, "Enabling interrupts on rio card.\n");
                                 hp->Mode |= RIO_PCI_INT_ENABLE;
                         } else
-                                hp->Mode &= !RIO_PCI_INT_ENABLE;
+                                hp->Mode &= ~RIO_PCI_INT_ENABLE;
                         rio_dprintk(RIO_DEBUG_INIT, "New Mode: %x\n", hp->Mode);
                         rio_start_card_running(hp);
                 }
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ali1535.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ali1535.c
index 6fd8ad7faa06..1e277ba5a9f3 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ali1535.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ali1535.c
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ static int __devinit ali1535_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_
                 return -ENODEV;
         }
 
-        /* set up the driverfs linkage to our parent device */
+        /* set up the sysfs linkage to our parent device */
         ali1535_adapter.dev.parent = &dev->dev;
 
         snprintf(ali1535_adapter.name, I2C_NAME_SIZE, 
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ali15x3.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ali15x3.c
index e4e0df106812..e47fe01bf42a 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ali15x3.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ali15x3.c
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ static int __devinit ali15x3_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_
                 return -ENODEV;
         }
 
-        /* set up the driverfs linkage to our parent device */
+        /* set up the sysfs linkage to our parent device */
         ali15x3_adapter.dev.parent = &dev->dev;
 
         snprintf(ali15x3_adapter.name, I2C_NAME_SIZE,
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-amd756.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-amd756.c
index fa6155a54cc3..7490dc1771ae 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-amd756.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-amd756.c
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ static int __devinit amd756_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
         dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "SMBREV = 0x%X\n", temp);
         dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "AMD756_smba = 0x%X\n", amd756_ioport);
 
-        /* set up the driverfs linkage to our parent device */
+        /* set up the sysfs linkage to our parent device */
         amd756_smbus.dev.parent = &pdev->dev;
 
         sprintf(amd756_smbus.name, "SMBus %s adapter at %04x",
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-amd8111.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-amd8111.c
index 5bba3fb50d71..e15f9e37716a 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-amd8111.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-amd8111.c
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ static int __devinit amd8111_probe(struct pci_dev *dev,
         smbus->adapter.algo = &smbus_algorithm;
         smbus->adapter.algo_data = smbus;
 
-        /* set up the driverfs linkage to our parent device */
+        /* set up the sysfs linkage to our parent device */
         smbus->adapter.dev.parent = &dev->dev;
 
         pci_write_config_dword(smbus->dev, AMD_PCI_MISC, 0);
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c
index 21f2671f7220..6569a36985bd 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ static int __devinit i801_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id
         else
                 dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "SMBus using PCI Interrupt\n");
 
-        /* set up the driverfs linkage to our parent device */
+        /* set up the sysfs linkage to our parent device */
         i801_adapter.dev.parent = &dev->dev;
 
         snprintf(i801_adapter.name, I2C_NAME_SIZE,
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4.c
index d888293c1a9c..21b180904085 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4.c
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ static int __devinit piix4_probe(struct pci_dev *dev,
         if (retval)
                 return retval;
 
-        /* set up the driverfs linkage to our parent device */
+        /* set up the sysfs linkage to our parent device */
         piix4_adapter.dev.parent = &dev->dev;
 
         snprintf(piix4_adapter.name, I2C_NAME_SIZE,
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sis5595.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sis5595.c
index d333babe4ad3..a6feed449dbe 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sis5595.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sis5595.c
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ static int __devinit sis5595_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_
                 return -ENODEV;
         }
 
-        /* set up the driverfs linkage to our parent device */
+        /* set up the sysfs linkage to our parent device */
         sis5595_adapter.dev.parent = &dev->dev;
 
         sprintf(sis5595_adapter.name, "SMBus SIS5595 adapter at %04x",
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sis630.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sis630.c
index 172bacf932a6..5fd734f99ee9 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sis630.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sis630.c
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ static int __devinit sis630_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_i
                 return -ENODEV;
         }
 
-        /* set up the driverfs linkage to our parent device */
+        /* set up the sysfs linkage to our parent device */
         sis630_adapter.dev.parent = &dev->dev;
 
         sprintf(sis630_adapter.name, "SMBus SIS630 adapter at %04x",
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sis96x.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sis96x.c
index 73dae449fb23..4157b0cd604c 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sis96x.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sis96x.c
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ static int __devinit sis96x_probe(struct pci_dev *dev,
                 return -EINVAL;
         }
 
-        /* set up the driverfs linkage to our parent device */
+        /* set up the sysfs linkage to our parent device */
         sis96x_adapter.dev.parent = &dev->dev;
 
         snprintf(sis96x_adapter.name, I2C_NAME_SIZE,
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-via.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-via.c
index bbcc62151f7c..81520868797b 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-via.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-via.c
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static int __devinit vt586b_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_i
         outb(inb(I2C_DIR) & ~(I2C_SDA | I2C_SCL), I2C_DIR);
         outb(inb(I2C_OUT) & ~(I2C_SDA | I2C_SCL), I2C_OUT);
 
-        /* set up the driverfs linkage to our parent device */
+        /* set up the sysfs linkage to our parent device */
         vt586b_adapter.dev.parent = &dev->dev;
 
         res = i2c_bit_add_bus(&vt586b_adapter);
diff --git a/drivers/ide/Kconfig b/drivers/ide/Kconfig
index 350764ece7fe..49234e32fd16 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig
@@ -383,6 +383,9 @@ config BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD
 config BLK_DEV_GENERIC
         tristate "Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support"
         depends on BLK_DEV_IDEPCI
+        help
+          This option provides generic support for various PCI IDE Chipsets
+          which otherwise might not be supported.
 
 config BLK_DEV_OPTI621
         tristate "OPTi 82C621 chipset enhanced support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
diff --git a/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c b/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c
index e982d60ac4b7..06fac0d21264 100644
--- a/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c
+++ b/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ static int alloc_dma_trm_ctx(struct ti_ohci *ohci, struct dma_trm_ctx *d,
 static void ohci1394_pci_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev);
 
 #ifndef __LITTLE_ENDIAN
-const static size_t hdr_sizes[] = {
+static const size_t hdr_sizes[] = {
         3,      /* TCODE_WRITEQ */
         4,      /* TCODE_WRITEB */
         3,      /* TCODE_WRITE_RESPONSE */
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_iba6110.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_iba6110.c
index 7468477ba837..993482545021 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_iba6110.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_iba6110.c
@@ -1534,7 +1534,7 @@ static int ipath_ht_early_init(struct ipath_devdata *dd)
  * @kbase: ipath_base_info pointer
  *
  * We set the PCIE flag because the lower bandwidth on PCIe vs
- * HyperTransport can affect some user packet algorithims.
+ * HyperTransport can affect some user packet algorithms.
  */
 static int ipath_ht_get_base_info(struct ipath_portdata *pd, void *kbase)
 {
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_iba6120.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_iba6120.c
index ae8bf9950c6d..05918e1e7c36 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_iba6120.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_iba6120.c
@@ -1293,7 +1293,7 @@ int __attribute__((weak)) ipath_unordered_wc(void)
  * @kbase: ipath_base_info pointer
  *
  * We set the PCIE flag because the lower bandwidth on PCIe vs
- * HyperTransport can affect some user packet algorithims.
+ * HyperTransport can affect some user packet algorithms.
  */
 static int ipath_pe_get_base_info(struct ipath_portdata *pd, void *kbase)
 {
diff --git a/drivers/input/serio/libps2.c b/drivers/input/serio/libps2.c
index b3e84d3bb7f7..10d9d74ae43a 100644
--- a/drivers/input/serio/libps2.c
+++ b/drivers/input/serio/libps2.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ps2_drain);
 
 int ps2_is_keyboard_id(char id_byte)
 {
-        const static char keyboard_ids[] = {
+        static const char keyboard_ids[] = {
                 0xab,   /* Regular keyboards            */
                 0xac,   /* NCD Sun keyboard             */
                 0x2b,   /* Trust keyboard, translated   */
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c b/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c
index 4e3f127e4003..1b2df80c3bce 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c
@@ -1680,7 +1680,7 @@ static void isdn_ppp_mp_receive(isdn_net_dev * net_dev, isdn_net_local * lp,
          * - we hit a gap in the sequence, so no reassembly/processing is 
          *   possible ('start' would be set to NULL)
          *
-         * algorightm for this code is derived from code in the book
+         * algorithm for this code is derived from code in the book
          * 'PPP Design And Debugging' by James Carlson (Addison-Wesley)
          */
         while (start != NULL || newfrag != NULL) {
diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
index e85972222ab4..7c42d53a1cc7 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
@@ -915,7 +915,7 @@ static int dvb_frontend_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
                         fetunesettings.parameters.inversion = INVERSION_AUTO;
                 }
                 if (fe->ops.info.type == FE_OFDM) {
-                        /* without hierachical coding code_rate_LP is irrelevant,
+                        /* without hierarchical coding code_rate_LP is irrelevant,
                          * so we tolerate the otherwise invalid FEC_NONE setting */
                         if (fepriv->parameters.u.ofdm.hierarchy_information == HIERARCHY_NONE &&
                             fepriv->parameters.u.ofdm.code_rate_LP == FEC_NONE)
diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dib3000mb.c b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dib3000mb.c
index adbabfdb04a9..b6adea5ffeb8 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dib3000mb.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dib3000mb.c
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ static int dib3000mb_set_frontend(struct dvb_frontend* fe,
                 default:
                         return -EINVAL;
         }
-        deb_setf("hierachy: ");
+        deb_setf("hierarchy: ");
         switch (ofdm->hierarchy_information) {
                 case HIERARCHY_NONE:
                         deb_setf("none ");
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-audio.c b/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-audio.c
index 9846c464ec80..122496f36845 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-audio.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-audio.c
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ static unsigned int pvr2_msp3400_describe(struct pvr2_msp3400_handler *ctxt,
 }
 
 
-const static struct pvr2_i2c_handler_functions msp3400_funcs = {
+static const struct pvr2_i2c_handler_functions msp3400_funcs = {
         .detach = (void (*)(void *))pvr2_msp3400_detach,
         .check = (int (*)(void *))msp3400_check,
         .update = (void (*)(void *))msp3400_update,
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-cx2584x-v4l.c b/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-cx2584x-v4l.c
index 848fb233d808..8df969c4874c 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-cx2584x-v4l.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-cx2584x-v4l.c
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static void decoder_reset(struct pvr2_v4l_cx2584x *ctxt)
 }
 
 
-const static struct pvr2_i2c_handler_functions hfuncs = {
+static const struct pvr2_i2c_handler_functions hfuncs = {
         .detach = (void (*)(void *))decoder_detach,
         .check = (int (*)(void *))decoder_check,
         .update = (void (*)(void *))decoder_update,
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-std.c b/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-std.c
index f95c598ff627..c08925557ed4 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-std.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-std.c
@@ -78,14 +78,14 @@ struct std_name {
 #define CSTD_ALL (CSTD_PAL|CSTD_NTSC|CSTD_SECAM)
 
 /* Mapping of standard bits to color system */
-const static struct std_name std_groups[] = {
+static const struct std_name std_groups[] = {
         {"PAL",CSTD_PAL},
         {"NTSC",CSTD_NTSC},
         {"SECAM",CSTD_SECAM},
 };
 
 /* Mapping of standard bits to modulation system */
-const static struct std_name std_items[] = {
+static const struct std_name std_items[] = {
         {"B",TSTD_B},
         {"B1",TSTD_B1},
         {"D",TSTD_D},
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-tuner.c b/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-tuner.c
index af9f246f8d3f..bb17db3f6434 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-tuner.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-tuner.c
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static unsigned int pvr2_tuner_describe(struct pvr2_tuner_handler *ctxt,char *bu
 }
 
 
-const static struct pvr2_i2c_handler_functions tuner_funcs = {
+static const struct pvr2_i2c_handler_functions tuner_funcs = {
         .detach = (void (*)(void *))pvr2_tuner_detach,
         .check = (int (*)(void *))tuner_check,
         .update = (void (*)(void *))tuner_update,
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-video-v4l.c b/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-video-v4l.c
index 05f2cddeb47b..2a826464911a 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-video-v4l.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-video-v4l.c
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ static unsigned int decoder_describe(struct pvr2_v4l_decoder *ctxt,char *buf,uns
 }
 
 
-const static struct pvr2_i2c_handler_functions hfuncs = {
+static const struct pvr2_i2c_handler_functions hfuncs = {
         .detach = (void (*)(void *))decoder_detach,
         .check = (int (*)(void *))decoder_check,
         .update = (void (*)(void *))decoder_update,
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-wm8775.c b/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-wm8775.c
index 2413e5198e16..7794c34c355e 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-wm8775.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-wm8775.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static void wm8775_update(struct pvr2_v4l_wm8775 *ctxt)
 }
 
 
-const static struct pvr2_i2c_handler_functions hfuncs = {
+static const struct pvr2_i2c_handler_functions hfuncs = {
         .detach = (void (*)(void *))wm8775_detach,
         .check = (int (*)(void *))wm8775_check,
         .update = (void (*)(void *))wm8775_update,
diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.h b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.h
index d67105883341..bd000b802ee7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.h
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.h
@@ -3253,7 +3253,7 @@ struct e1000_host_command_info {
 #define IFE_PMC_AUTO_MDIX                    0x0080  /* 1=enable MDI/MDI-X feature, default 0=disabled */
 #define IFE_PMC_FORCE_MDIX                   0x0040  /* 1=force MDIX-X, 0=force MDI */
 #define IFE_PMC_MDIX_STATUS                  0x0020  /* 1=MDI-X, 0=MDI */
-#define IFE_PMC_AUTO_MDIX_COMPLETE           0x0010  /* Resolution algorthm is completed */
+#define IFE_PMC_AUTO_MDIX_COMPLETE           0x0010  /* Resolution algorithm is completed */
 #define IFE_PMC_MDIX_MODE_SHIFT              6
 #define IFE_PHC_MDIX_RESET_ALL_MASK          0x0000  /* Disable auto MDI-X */
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/eexpress.c b/drivers/net/eexpress.c
index 4a50fcb5ad6b..3868b8031266 100644
--- a/drivers/net/eexpress.c
+++ b/drivers/net/eexpress.c
@@ -714,13 +714,6 @@ static int eexp_xmit(struct sk_buff *buf, struct net_device *dev)
  * check to make sure we've not become wedged.
  */
 
-/*
- * Handle an EtherExpress interrupt
- * If we've finished initializing, start the RU and CU up.
- * If we've already started, reap tx buffers, handle any received packets,
- * check to make sure we've not become wedged.
- */
-
 static unsigned short eexp_start_irq(struct net_device *dev,
                                      unsigned short status)
 {
diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/Kconfig b/drivers/net/hamradio/Kconfig
index feb0ada7a025..6e90619b3b41 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hamradio/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/Kconfig
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ config BAYCOM_SER_HDX
         ---help---
           This is one of two drivers for Baycom style simple amateur radio
           modems that connect to a serial interface. The driver supports the
-          ser12 design in full-duplex mode. This is the old driver.  It is
+          ser12 design in half-duplex mode. This is the old driver.  It is
           still provided in case your serial interface chip does not work with
           the full-duplex driver. This driver is depreciated.  To configure
           the driver, use the sethdlc utility available in the standard ax25
@@ -190,3 +190,4 @@ config YAM
           To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
           will be called yam.
 
+ 
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/wavelan_cs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/wavelan_cs.c
index 5eb81638e846..b04239792f63 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/wavelan_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wavelan_cs.c
@@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ wv_mmc_show(struct net_device *	dev)
          m.mmr_unused0[6],
          m.mmr_unused0[7]);
 #endif  /* DEBUG_SHOW_UNUSED */
-  printk(KERN_DEBUG "Encryption algorythm: %02X - Status: %02X\n",
+  printk(KERN_DEBUG "Encryption algorithm: %02X - Status: %02X\n",
          m.mmr_des_avail, m.mmr_des_status);
 #ifdef DEBUG_SHOW_UNUSED
   printk(KERN_DEBUG "mmc_unused1[]: %02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X\n",
@@ -3590,9 +3590,9 @@ wv_82593_config(struct net_device *	dev)
   cfblk.acloc = TRUE;           /* Disable source addr insertion by i82593 */
   cfblk.preamb_len = 0;         /* 2 bytes preamble (SFD) */
   cfblk.loopback = FALSE;
-  cfblk.lin_prio = 0;           /* conform to 802.3 backoff algoritm */
-  cfblk.exp_prio = 5;           /* conform to 802.3 backoff algoritm */
-  cfblk.bof_met = 1;            /* conform to 802.3 backoff algoritm */
+  cfblk.lin_prio = 0;           /* conform to 802.3 backoff algorithm */
+  cfblk.exp_prio = 5;           /* conform to 802.3 backoff algorithm */
+  cfblk.bof_met = 1;            /* conform to 802.3 backoff algorithm */
   cfblk.ifrm_spc = 0x20 >> 4;   /* 32 bit times interframe spacing */
   cfblk.slottim_low = 0x20 >> 5;        /* 32 bit times slot time */
   cfblk.slottim_hi = 0x0;
diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.h b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.h
index 3c0a58f64dd8..bf655dbaf8e2 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.h
+++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.h
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ struct aer_rpc {
         struct mutex rpc_mutex;         /*
                                          * only one thread could do
                                          * recovery on the same
-                                         * root port hierachy
+                                         * root port hierarchy
                                          */
         wait_queue_head_t wait_release;
 };
diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/cardbus.c b/drivers/pcmcia/cardbus.c
index 2d7effe7990d..a1bd763b4e33 100644
--- a/drivers/pcmcia/cardbus.c
+++ b/drivers/pcmcia/cardbus.c
@@ -40,8 +40,6 @@
 
 /*====================================================================*/
 
-#define FIND_FIRST_BIT(n)       ((n) - ((n) & ((n)-1)))
-
 /* Offsets in the Expansion ROM Image Header */
 #define ROM_SIGNATURE           0x0000  /* 2 bytes */
 #define ROM_DATA_PTR            0x0018  /* 2 bytes */
diff --git a/drivers/sbus/char/vfc_i2c.c b/drivers/sbus/char/vfc_i2c.c
index ceec30648f4f..9efed771f6c0 100644
--- a/drivers/sbus/char/vfc_i2c.c
+++ b/drivers/sbus/char/vfc_i2c.c
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 /* NOTE: It seems to me that the documentation regarding the
 pcd8584t/pcf8584 does not show the correct way to address the i2c bus.
 Based on the information on the I2C bus itself and the remainder of
-the Phillips docs the following algorithims apper to be correct.  I am
+the Phillips docs the following algorithms appear to be correct.  I am
 fairly certain that the flowcharts in the phillips docs are wrong. */
 
 
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
index 5bf3f07870ba..4cd280e86966 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ config SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC
           The SCSI subsystem can probe for devices while the rest of the
           system continues booting, and even probe devices on different
           busses in parallel, leading to a significant speed-up.
+
           If you have built SCSI as modules, enabling this option can
           be a problem as the devices may not have been found by the
           time your system expects them to have been.  You can load the
@@ -237,8 +238,8 @@ config SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC
           If you build your SCSI drivers into the kernel, then everything
           will work fine if you say Y here.
 
-          You can override this choice by specifying scsi_mod.scan="sync"
-          or "async" on the kernel's command line.
+          You can override this choice by specifying "scsi_mod.scan=sync"
+          or async on the kernel's command line.
 
 menu "SCSI Transports"
         depends on SCSI
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c b/drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c
index 2650a5d0a161..7f4241bfb9c4 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c
@@ -1067,7 +1067,7 @@ static int __devinit inia100_probe_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
                 goto out_disable_device;
         }
 
-        /* <02> read from base address + 0x50 offset to get the bios balue. */
+        /* <02> read from base address + 0x50 offset to get the bios value. */
         bios = ORC_RDWORD(port, 0x50);
 
 
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/arm/eesox.c b/drivers/scsi/arm/eesox.c
index 4677152142d9..d4136524fc46 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/arm/eesox.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/arm/eesox.c
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ static void eesoxscsi_buffer_in(void *buf, int length, void __iomem *base)
         const void __iomem *reg_fas = base + EESOX_FAS216_OFFSET;
         const void __iomem *reg_dmastat = base + EESOX_DMASTAT;
         const void __iomem *reg_dmadata = base + EESOX_DMADATA;
-        const register unsigned long mask = 0xffff;
+        register const unsigned long mask = 0xffff;
 
         do {
                 unsigned int status;
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/osst.c b/drivers/scsi/osst.c
index 9668b73872c7..a967fadb7439 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/osst.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/osst.c
@@ -5574,14 +5574,14 @@ static ssize_t osst_version_show(struct device_driver *ddd, char *buf)
 
 static DRIVER_ATTR(version, S_IRUGO, osst_version_show, NULL);
 
-static int osst_create_driverfs_files(struct device_driver *driverfs)
+static int osst_create_sysfs_files(struct device_driver *sysfs)
 {
-        return driver_create_file(driverfs, &driver_attr_version);
+        return driver_create_file(sysfs, &driver_attr_version);
 }
 
-static void osst_remove_driverfs_files(struct device_driver *driverfs)
+static void osst_remove_sysfs_files(struct device_driver *sysfs)
 {
-        driver_remove_file(driverfs, &driver_attr_version);
+        driver_remove_file(sysfs, &driver_attr_version);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -5953,7 +5953,7 @@ static int __init init_osst(void)
         if (err)
                 goto err_out_chrdev;
 
-        err = osst_create_driverfs_files(&osst_template.gendrv);
+        err = osst_create_sysfs_files(&osst_template.gendrv);
         if (err)
                 goto err_out_scsidrv;
 
@@ -5973,7 +5973,7 @@ static void __exit exit_osst (void)
         int i;
         struct osst_tape * STp;
 
-        osst_remove_driverfs_files(&osst_template.gendrv);
+        osst_remove_sysfs_files(&osst_template.gendrv);
         scsi_unregister_driver(&osst_template.gendrv);
         unregister_chrdev(OSST_MAJOR, "osst");
         osst_sysfs_cleanup();
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
index a43b9ec3aefd..d6fe756eb371 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 #define SCSI_TIMEOUT (2*HZ)
 
 /*
- * Prefix values for the SCSI id's (stored in driverfs name field)
+ * Prefix values for the SCSI id's (stored in sysfs name field)
  */
 #define SCSI_UID_SER_NUM 'S'
 #define SCSI_UID_UNKNOWN 'Z'
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c
index 0d3c10f2134c..58afdb401703 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ static FC_CLASS_DEVICE_ATTR(rport, fast_io_fail_tmo, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
 
 /*
  * Note: in the target show function we recognize when the remote
- *  port is in the heirarchy and do not allow the driver to get
+ *  port is in the hierarchy and do not allow the driver to get
  *  involved in sysfs functions. The driver only gets involved if
  *  it's the "old" style that doesn't use rports.
  */
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c
index 6d39150e205b..b2ef71a86292 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ struct sas_phy *sas_phy_alloc(struct device *parent, int number)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sas_phy_alloc);
 
 /**
- * sas_phy_add  --  add a SAS PHY to the device hierachy
+ * sas_phy_add  --  add a SAS PHY to the device hierarchy
  * @phy:        The PHY to be added
  *
  * Publishes a SAS PHY to the rest of the system.
@@ -1265,7 +1265,7 @@ struct sas_rphy *sas_expander_alloc(struct sas_port *parent,
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sas_expander_alloc);
 
 /**
- * sas_rphy_add  --  add a SAS remote PHY to the device hierachy
+ * sas_rphy_add  --  add a SAS remote PHY to the device hierarchy
  * @rphy:       The remote PHY to be added
  *
  * Publishes a SAS remote PHY to the rest of the system.
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/st.c b/drivers/scsi/st.c
index 3d2e02381e92..98d8411bbccc 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/st.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/st.c
@@ -195,8 +195,8 @@ static int sgl_unmap_user_pages(struct scatterlist *, const unsigned int, int);
 static int st_probe(struct device *);
 static int st_remove(struct device *);
 
-static int do_create_driverfs_files(void);
-static void do_remove_driverfs_files(void);
+static int do_create_sysfs_files(void);
+static void do_remove_sysfs_files(void);
 static int do_create_class_files(struct scsi_tape *, int, int);
 
 static struct scsi_driver st_template = {
@@ -4193,7 +4193,7 @@ static int __init init_st(void)
         if (err)
                 goto err_chrdev;
 
-        err = do_create_driverfs_files();
+        err = do_create_sysfs_files();
         if (err)
                 goto err_scsidrv;
 
@@ -4211,7 +4211,7 @@ err_class:
 
 static void __exit exit_st(void)
 {
-        do_remove_driverfs_files();
+        do_remove_sysfs_files();
         scsi_unregister_driver(&st_template.gendrv);
         unregister_chrdev_region(MKDEV(SCSI_TAPE_MAJOR, 0),
                                  ST_MAX_TAPE_ENTRIES);
@@ -4249,43 +4249,43 @@ static ssize_t st_version_show(struct device_driver *ddd, char *buf)
 }
 static DRIVER_ATTR(version, S_IRUGO, st_version_show, NULL);
 
-static int do_create_driverfs_files(void)
+static int do_create_sysfs_files(void)
 {
-        struct device_driver *driverfs = &st_template.gendrv;
+        struct device_driver *sysfs = &st_template.gendrv;
         int err;
 
-        err = driver_create_file(driverfs, &driver_attr_try_direct_io);
+        err = driver_create_file(sysfs, &driver_attr_try_direct_io);
         if (err)
                 return err;
-        err = driver_create_file(driverfs, &driver_attr_fixed_buffer_size);
+        err = driver_create_file(sysfs, &driver_attr_fixed_buffer_size);
         if (err)
                 goto err_try_direct_io;
-        err = driver_create_file(driverfs, &driver_attr_max_sg_segs);
+        err = driver_create_file(sysfs, &driver_attr_max_sg_segs);
         if (err)
                 goto err_attr_fixed_buf;
-        err = driver_create_file(driverfs, &driver_attr_version);
+        err = driver_create_file(sysfs, &driver_attr_version);
         if (err)
                 goto err_attr_max_sg;
 
         return 0;
 
 err_attr_max_sg:
-        driver_remove_file(driverfs, &driver_attr_max_sg_segs);
+        driver_remove_file(sysfs, &driver_attr_max_sg_segs);
 err_attr_fixed_buf:
-        driver_remove_file(driverfs, &driver_attr_fixed_buffer_size);
+        driver_remove_file(sysfs, &driver_attr_fixed_buffer_size);
 err_try_direct_io:
-        driver_remove_file(driverfs, &driver_attr_try_direct_io);
+        driver_remove_file(sysfs, &driver_attr_try_direct_io);
         return err;
 }
 
-static void do_remove_driverfs_files(void)
+static void do_remove_sysfs_files(void)
 {
-        struct device_driver *driverfs = &st_template.gendrv;
+        struct device_driver *sysfs = &st_template.gendrv;
 
-        driver_remove_file(driverfs, &driver_attr_version);
-        driver_remove_file(driverfs, &driver_attr_max_sg_segs);
-        driver_remove_file(driverfs, &driver_attr_fixed_buffer_size);
-        driver_remove_file(driverfs, &driver_attr_try_direct_io);
+        driver_remove_file(sysfs, &driver_attr_version);
+        driver_remove_file(sysfs, &driver_attr_max_sg_segs);
+        driver_remove_file(sysfs, &driver_attr_fixed_buffer_size);
+        driver_remove_file(sysfs, &driver_attr_try_direct_io);
 }
 
 
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_fw1.h b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_fw1.h
index 7b39f4a35e98..7b08d6caaa99 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_fw1.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_fw1.h
@@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ static struct SYM_FWA_SCR SYM_FWA_SCR = {
          *  It shall be a tagged command.
          *  Read SIMPLE+TAG.
          *  The C code will deal with errors.
-         *  Agressive optimization, is'nt it? :)
+         *  Aggressive optimization, isn't it? :)
          */
         SCR_MOVE_ABS (2) ^ SCR_MSG_IN,
                 HADDR_1 (msgin),
@@ -1044,7 +1044,7 @@ static struct SYM_FWA_SCR SYM_FWA_SCR = {
                 RADDR_1 (dsa),
         /*
          *  The SIDL still contains the TAG value.
-         *  Agressive optimization, isn't it? :):)
+         *  Aggressive optimization, isn't it? :):)
          */
         SCR_REG_SFBR (sidl, SCR_SHL, 0),
                 0,
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_fw2.h b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_fw2.h
index 851f2706f220..6e5b952312e3 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_fw2.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_fw2.h
@@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ static struct SYM_FWA_SCR SYM_FWA_SCR = {
          *  It shall be a tagged command.
          *  Read SIMPLE+TAG.
          *  The C code will deal with errors.
-         *  Agressive optimization, is'nt it? :)
+         *  Aggressive optimization, isn't it? :)
          */
         SCR_MOVE_ABS (2) ^ SCR_MSG_IN,
                 HADDR_1 (msgin),
@@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ static struct SYM_FWA_SCR SYM_FWA_SCR = {
                 offsetof(struct sym_lcb, head.itlq_tbl_sa),
         /*
          *  The SIDL still contains the TAG value.
-         *  Agressive optimization, isn't it? :):)
+         *  Aggressive optimization, isn't it? :):)
          */
         SCR_REG_SFBR (sidl, SCR_SHL, 0),
                 0,
diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-dbg.c b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-dbg.c
index 246afea9e83b..43eddaecc3dd 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-dbg.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-dbg.c
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ static inline void remove_debug_files (struct ehci_hcd *bus) { }
 
 #else
 
-/* troubleshooting help: expose state in driverfs */
+/* troubleshooting help: expose state in sysfs */
 
 #define speed_char(info1) ({ char tmp; \
                 switch (info1 & (3 << 12)) { \
diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README
index 432e515431c4..080c5eba112b 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/README
+++ b/fs/cifs/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 The CIFS VFS support for Linux supports many advanced network filesystem 
-features such as heirarchical dfs like namespace, hardlinks, locking and more.  
+features such as hierarchical dfs like namespace, hardlinks, locking and more.  
 It was designed to comply with the SNIA CIFS Technical Reference (which 
 supersedes the 1992 X/Open SMB Standard) as well as to perform best practice 
 practical interoperability with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Samba and equivalent 
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
index b8e91470c27f..24364106b8f9 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
@@ -2824,10 +2824,10 @@ GetExtAttrOut:
 
 
 /* security id for everyone */
-const static struct cifs_sid sid_everyone = 
+static const struct cifs_sid sid_everyone =
                 {1, 1, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0}};
 /* group users */
-const static struct cifs_sid sid_user = 
+static const struct cifs_sid sid_user =
                 {1, 2 , {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5}, {32, 545, 0, 0}};
 
 /* Convert CIFS ACL to POSIX form */
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index dc2724fa7622..7916b50f9a13 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_space_block(struct inode *inode)
 
         size = (inode->i_sb->s_blocksize - sizeof(struct ext4_extent_header))
                         / sizeof(struct ext4_extent);
-#ifdef AGRESSIVE_TEST
+#ifdef AGGRESSIVE_TEST
         if (size > 6)
                 size = 6;
 #endif
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_space_block_idx(struct inode *inode)
 
         size = (inode->i_sb->s_blocksize - sizeof(struct ext4_extent_header))
                         / sizeof(struct ext4_extent_idx);
-#ifdef AGRESSIVE_TEST
+#ifdef AGGRESSIVE_TEST
         if (size > 5)
                 size = 5;
 #endif
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_space_root(struct inode *inode)
         size = sizeof(EXT4_I(inode)->i_data);
         size -= sizeof(struct ext4_extent_header);
         size /= sizeof(struct ext4_extent);
-#ifdef AGRESSIVE_TEST
+#ifdef AGGRESSIVE_TEST
         if (size > 3)
                 size = 3;
 #endif
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_space_root_idx(struct inode *inode)
         size = sizeof(EXT4_I(inode)->i_data);
         size -= sizeof(struct ext4_extent_header);
         size /= sizeof(struct ext4_extent_idx);
-#ifdef AGRESSIVE_TEST
+#ifdef AGGRESSIVE_TEST
         if (size > 4)
                 size = 4;
 #endif
@@ -1118,7 +1118,7 @@ ext4_can_extents_be_merged(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_extent *ex1,
          */
         if (le16_to_cpu(ex1->ee_len) + le16_to_cpu(ex2->ee_len) > EXT_MAX_LEN)
                 return 0;
-#ifdef AGRESSIVE_TEST
+#ifdef AGGRESSIVE_TEST
         if (le16_to_cpu(ex1->ee_len) >= 4)
                 return 0;
 #endif
@@ -1891,8 +1891,8 @@ void ext4_ext_init(struct super_block *sb)
 
         if (test_opt(sb, EXTENTS)) {
                 printk("EXT4-fs: file extents enabled");
-#ifdef AGRESSIVE_TEST
-                printk(", agressive tests");
+#ifdef AGGRESSIVE_TEST
+                printk(", aggressive tests");
 #endif
 #ifdef CHECK_BINSEARCH
                 printk(", check binsearch");
diff --git a/fs/lockd/svc.c b/fs/lockd/svc.c
index 50cb8daba4e5..126b1bf02c0e 100644
--- a/fs/lockd/svc.c
+++ b/fs/lockd/svc.c
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ static ctl_table nlm_sysctl_root[] = {
 };
 
 /*
- * Module (and driverfs) parameters.
+ * Module (and sysfs) parameters.
  */
 
 #define param_set_min_max(name, type, which_strtol, min, max)           \
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/namei.c b/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
index f7fa52bb3f6b..28dd757ff67d 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
@@ -1098,7 +1098,7 @@ static int ocfs2_rename(struct inode *old_dir,
                         BUG();
         }
 
-        /* Assume a directory heirarchy thusly:
+        /* Assume a directory hierarchy thusly:
          * a/b/c
          * a/d
          * a,b,c, and d are all directories.
diff --git a/include/asm-arm/uaccess.h b/include/asm-arm/uaccess.h
index c92df958802e..4c1a3fa9f259 100644
--- a/include/asm-arm/uaccess.h
+++ b/include/asm-arm/uaccess.h
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ extern int __get_user_4(void *);
 
 #define get_user(x,p)                                                   \
         ({                                                              \
-                const register typeof(*(p)) __user *__p asm("r0") = (p);\
+                register const typeof(*(p)) __user *__p asm("r0") = (p);\
                 register unsigned long __r2 asm("r2");                  \
                 register int __e asm("r0");                             \
                 switch (sizeof(*(__p))) {                               \
@@ -143,8 +143,8 @@ extern int __put_user_8(void *, unsigned long long);
 
 #define put_user(x,p)                                                   \
         ({                                                              \
-                const register typeof(*(p)) __r2 asm("r2") = (x);       \
-                const register typeof(*(p)) __user *__p asm("r0") = (p);\
+                register const typeof(*(p)) __r2 asm("r2") = (x);       \
+                register const typeof(*(p)) __user *__p asm("r0") = (p);\
                 register int __e asm("r0");                             \
                 switch (sizeof(*(__p))) {                               \
                 case 1:                                                 \
diff --git a/include/asm-arm26/uaccess.h b/include/asm-arm26/uaccess.h
index 3f2dd1093e58..d64ed84cb2d3 100644
--- a/include/asm-arm26/uaccess.h
+++ b/include/asm-arm26/uaccess.h
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ extern int __get_user_bad(void);
 
 #define get_user(x,p)                                                   \
         ({                                                              \
-                const register typeof(*(p)) *__p asm("r0") = (p);       \
+                register const typeof(*(p)) *__p asm("r0") = (p);       \
                 register typeof(*(p)) __r1 asm("r1");                   \
                 register int __e asm("r0");                             \
                 switch (sizeof(*(p))) {                                 \
@@ -139,8 +139,8 @@ extern int __put_user_bad(void);
 
 #define put_user(x,p)                                                   \
         ({                                                              \
-                const register typeof(*(p)) __r1 asm("r1") = (x);       \
-                const register typeof(*(p)) *__p asm("r0") = (p);       \
+                register const typeof(*(p)) __r1 asm("r1") = (x);       \
+                register const typeof(*(p)) *__p asm("r0") = (p);       \
                 register int __e asm("r0");                             \
                 switch (sizeof(*(__p))) {                               \
                 case 1:                                                 \
@@ -170,8 +170,8 @@ extern int __put_user_bad(void);
 
 #define put_user(x,p)                                                   \
         ({                                                              \
-                const register typeof(*(p)) __r1 asm("r1") = (x);       \
-                const register typeof(*(p)) *__p asm("r0") = (p);       \
+                register const typeof(*(p)) __r1 asm("r1") = (x);       \
+                register const typeof(*(p)) *__p asm("r0") = (p);       \
                 register int __e asm("r0");                             \
                 switch (sizeof(*(p))) {                                 \
                 case 1:                                                 \
diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/kexec.h b/include/asm-ia64/kexec.h
index 01c36b004747..f2ad469a6ddf 100644
--- a/include/asm-ia64/kexec.h
+++ b/include/asm-ia64/kexec.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 extern struct kimage *ia64_kimage;
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(u64, ia64_mca_pal_base);
-const extern unsigned int relocate_new_kernel_size;
+extern const unsigned int relocate_new_kernel_size;
 extern void relocate_new_kernel(unsigned long, unsigned long,
                 struct ia64_boot_param *, unsigned long);
 static inline void
diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/pal.h b/include/asm-ia64/pal.h
index bc768153f3c9..e43021a99a20 100644
--- a/include/asm-ia64/pal.h
+++ b/include/asm-ia64/pal.h
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 #define PAL_CACHE_FLUSH         1       /* flush i/d cache */
 #define PAL_CACHE_INFO          2       /* get detailed i/d cache info */
 #define PAL_CACHE_INIT          3       /* initialize i/d cache */
-#define PAL_CACHE_SUMMARY       4       /* get summary of cache heirarchy */
+#define PAL_CACHE_SUMMARY       4       /* get summary of cache hierarchy */
 #define PAL_MEM_ATTRIB          5       /* list supported memory attributes */
 #define PAL_PTCE_INFO           6       /* purge TLB info */
 #define PAL_VM_INFO             7       /* return supported virtual memory features */
@@ -113,14 +113,14 @@ typedef s64				pal_status_t;
                                                  */
 #define PAL_STATUS_REQUIRES_MEMORY      (-9)    /* Call requires PAL memory buffer */
 
-/* Processor cache level in the heirarchy */
+/* Processor cache level in the hierarchy */
 typedef u64                             pal_cache_level_t;
 #define PAL_CACHE_LEVEL_L0              0       /* L0 */
 #define PAL_CACHE_LEVEL_L1              1       /* L1 */
 #define PAL_CACHE_LEVEL_L2              2       /* L2 */
 
 
-/* Processor cache type at a particular level in the heirarchy */
+/* Processor cache type at a particular level in the hierarchy */
 
 typedef u64                             pal_cache_type_t;
 #define PAL_CACHE_TYPE_INSTRUCTION      1       /* Instruction cache */
@@ -272,14 +272,14 @@ typedef struct pal_cache_protection_info_s {
 #define PAL_CACHE_PROT_METHOD_ECC               3       /* ECC protection */
 
 
-/* Processor cache line identification in the heirarchy */
+/* Processor cache line identification in the hierarchy */
 typedef union pal_cache_line_id_u {
         u64                     pclid_data;
         struct {
                 u64             cache_type      : 8,    /* 7-0 cache type */
                                 level           : 8,    /* 15-8 level of the
                                                          * cache in the
-                                                         * heirarchy.
+                                                         * hierarchy.
                                                          */
                                 way             : 8,    /* 23-16 way in the set
                                                          */
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ typedef union pal_cache_line_id_u {
                 u64             cache_type      : 8,    /* 7-0 cache type */
                                 level           : 8,    /* 15-8 level of the
                                                          * cache in the
-                                                         * heirarchy.
+                                                         * hierarchy.
                                                          */
                                 way             : 8,    /* 23-16 way in the set
                                                          */
@@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ ia64_pal_cache_read (pal_cache_line_id_u_t line_id, u64 physical_addr)
         return iprv.status;
 }
 
-/* Return summary information about the heirarchy of caches controlled by the processor */
+/* Return summary information about the hierarchy of caches controlled by the processor */
 static inline s64
 ia64_pal_cache_summary (u64 *cache_levels, u64 *unique_caches)
 {
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index d5b1b7b3558e..d1a3a27c3988 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ extern int bus_unregister_notifier(struct bus_type *bus,
 #define BUS_NOTIFY_UNBIND_DRIVER        0x00000004 /* driver about to be
                                                       unbound */
 
-/* driverfs interface for exporting bus attributes */
+/* sysfs interface for exporting bus attributes */
 
 struct bus_attribute {
         struct attribute        attr;
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ extern void put_driver(struct device_driver * drv);
 extern struct device_driver *driver_find(const char *name, struct bus_type *bus);
 extern int driver_probe_done(void);
 
-/* driverfs interface for exporting driver attributes */
+/* sysfs interface for exporting driver attributes */
 
 struct driver_attribute {
         struct attribute        attr;
diff --git a/include/linux/ext4_fs_extents.h b/include/linux/ext4_fs_extents.h
index a41cc24568ca..7eb1d73fc5d1 100644
--- a/include/linux/ext4_fs_extents.h
+++ b/include/linux/ext4_fs_extents.h
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@
 #include <linux/ext4_fs.h>
 
 /*
- * With AGRESSIVE_TEST defined, the capacity of index/leaf blocks
+ * With AGGRESSIVE_TEST defined, the capacity of index/leaf blocks
  * becomes very small, so index split, in-depth growing and
  * other hard changes happen much more often.
  * This is for debug purposes only.
  */
-#define AGRESSIVE_TEST_
+#define AGGRESSIVE_TEST_
 
 /*
  * With EXTENTS_STATS defined, the number of blocks and extents
diff --git a/include/linux/log2.h b/include/linux/log2.h
index 99922bedfcc9..57e641e19a81 100644
--- a/include/linux/log2.h
+++ b/include/linux/log2.h
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ unsigned long __roundup_pow_of_two(unsigned long n)
  * roundup_pow_of_two - round the given value up to nearest power of two
  * @n - parameter
  *
- * round the given balue up to the nearest power of two
+ * round the given value up to the nearest power of two
  * - the result is undefined when n == 0
  * - this can be used to initialise global variables from constant data
  */
diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
index b26b2e5fedc7..c83588c8d08b 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ struct kparam_array
 };
 
 /* This is the fundamental function for registering boot/module
-   parameters.  perm sets the visibility in driverfs: 000 means it's
+   parameters.  perm sets the visibility in sysfs: 000 means it's
    not there, read bits mean it's readable, write bits mean it's
    writable. */
 #define __module_param_call(prefix, name, set, get, arg, perm)          \
diff --git a/include/linux/seqlock.h b/include/linux/seqlock.h
index 6b0648cfdffc..52c9eb9b6df2 100644
--- a/include/linux/seqlock.h
+++ b/include/linux/seqlock.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #define __LINUX_SEQLOCK_H
 /*
  * Reader/writer consistent mechanism without starving writers. This type of
- * lock for data where the reader wants a consitent set of information
+ * lock for data where the reader wants a consistent set of information
  * and is willing to retry if the information changes.  Readers never
  * block but they may have to retry if a writer is in
  * progress. Writers do not wait for readers. 
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 0c151877ff71..4b47e59248df 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ int console_printk[4] = {
 };
 
 /*
- * Low lever drivers may need that to know if they can schedule in
+ * Low level drivers may need that to know if they can schedule in
  * their unblank() callback or not. So let's export it.
  */
 int oops_in_progress;
diff --git a/lib/textsearch.c b/lib/textsearch.c
index 9e2a002c5b54..88c98a2ec8d9 100644
--- a/lib/textsearch.c
+++ b/lib/textsearch.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
  *       configuration according to the specified parameters.
  *   (3) User starts the search(es) by calling _find() or _next() to
  *       fetch subsequent occurrences. A state variable is provided
- *       to the algorihtm to store persistent variables.
+ *       to the algorithm to store persistent variables.
  *   (4) Core eventually resets the search offset and forwards the find()
  *       request to the algorithm.
  *   (5) Algorithm calls get_next_block() provided by the user continously
diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
index 503e7059e312..91f3a5cdbcf8 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig
+++ b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ config IP_MULTICAST
           intend to participate in the MBONE, a high bandwidth network on top
           of the Internet which carries audio and video broadcasts. More
           information about the MBONE is on the WWW at
-          <http://www-itg.lbl.gov/mbone/>. Information about the multicast
+          <http://www.savetz.com/mbone/>. Information about the multicast
           capabilities of the various network cards is contained in
           <file:Documentation/networking/multicast.txt>. For most people, it's
           safe to say N.
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
index c1b34f1edb32..5c8caf4a1244 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ static struct tcp_congestion_ops *tcp_ca_find(const char *name)
 }
 
 /*
- * Attach new congestion control algorthim to the list
+ * Attach new congestion control algorithm to the list
  * of available options.
  */
 int tcp_register_congestion_control(struct tcp_congestion_ops *ca)