246 files changed, 396 insertions, 3454 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl
index 5e7d84b48505..133cd6c3f3c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ static void board_select_chip (struct mtd_info *mtd, int chip)
                                 The ECC bytes must be placed immidiately after the data
                                 bytes in order to make the syndrome generator work. This
                                 is contrary to the usual layout used by software ECC. The
-                                seperation of data and out of band area is not longer
+                                separation of data and out of band area is not longer
                                 possible. The nand driver code handles this layout and
                                 the remaining free bytes in the oob area are managed by 
                                 the autoplacement code. Provide a matching oob-layout
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ static void board_select_chip (struct mtd_info *mtd, int chip)
                                 bad blocks. They have factory marked good blocks. The marker pattern
                                 is erased when the block is erased to be reused. So in case of
                                 powerloss before writing the pattern back to the chip this block 
-                                would be lost and added to the bad blocks. Therefor we scan the 
+                                would be lost and added to the bad blocks. Therefore we scan the 
                                 chip(s) when we detect them the first time for good blocks and 
                                 store this information in a bad block table before erasing any 
                                 of the blocks.
@@ -1094,7 +1094,7 @@ in this page</entry>
                 manufacturers specifications. This applies similar to the spare area. 
         </para>
         <para>
-                Therefor NAND aware filesystems must either write in page size chunks
+                Therefore NAND aware filesystems must either write in page size chunks
                 or hold a writebuffer to collect smaller writes until they sum up to 
                 pagesize. Available NAND aware filesystems: JFFS2, YAFFS.               
         </para>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/common.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/common.xml
index c65f0ac9b6ee..cea23e1c4fc6 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/common.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/common.xml
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ frames per second. If less than this number of frames is to be
 captured or output, applications can request frame skipping or
 duplicating on the driver side. This is especially useful when using
 the &func-read; or &func-write;, which are not augmented by timestamps
-or sequence counters, and to avoid unneccessary data copying.</para>
+or sequence counters, and to avoid unnecessary data copying.</para>
 
     <para>Finally these ioctls can be used to determine the number of
 buffers used internally by a driver in read/write mode. For
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-parm.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-parm.xml
index 78332d365ce9..392aa9e5571e 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-parm.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-parm.xml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ captured or output, applications can request frame skipping or
 duplicating on the driver side. This is especially useful when using
 the <function>read()</function> or <function>write()</function>, which
 are not augmented by timestamps or sequence counters, and to avoid
-unneccessary data copying.</para>
+unnecessary data copying.</para>
 
     <para>Further these ioctls can be used to determine the number of
 buffers used internally by a driver in read/write mode. For
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/CPUfreq.txt b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/CPUfreq.txt
index 76b3a11e90be..fa968aa99d67 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/CPUfreq.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/CPUfreq.txt
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ Introduction
  how the clocks are arranged. The first implementation used as single
  PLL to feed the ARM, memory and peripherals via a series of dividers
  and muxes and this is the implementation that is documented here. A
- newer version where there is a seperate PLL and clock divider for the
- ARM core is available as a seperate driver.
+ newer version where there is a separate PLL and clock divider for the
+ ARM core is available as a separate driver.
 
 
 Layout
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
index 1d7e9784439a..4160df82b3f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
@@ -168,20 +168,20 @@ Each cpuset is represented by a directory in the cgroup file system
 containing (on top of the standard cgroup files) the following
 files describing that cpuset:
 
- - cpus: list of CPUs in that cpuset
- - mems: list of Memory Nodes in that cpuset
- - memory_migrate flag: if set, move pages to cpusets nodes
- - cpu_exclusive flag: is cpu placement exclusive?
- - mem_exclusive flag: is memory placement exclusive?
- - mem_hardwall flag:  is memory allocation hardwalled
- - memory_pressure: measure of how much paging pressure in cpuset
- - memory_spread_page flag: if set, spread page cache evenly on allowed nodes
- - memory_spread_slab flag: if set, spread slab cache evenly on allowed nodes
- - sched_load_balance flag: if set, load balance within CPUs on that cpuset
- - sched_relax_domain_level: the searching range when migrating tasks
+ - cpuset.cpus: list of CPUs in that cpuset
+ - cpuset.mems: list of Memory Nodes in that cpuset
+ - cpuset.memory_migrate flag: if set, move pages to cpusets nodes
+ - cpuset.cpu_exclusive flag: is cpu placement exclusive?
+ - cpuset.mem_exclusive flag: is memory placement exclusive?
+ - cpuset.mem_hardwall flag:  is memory allocation hardwalled
+ - cpuset.memory_pressure: measure of how much paging pressure in cpuset
+ - cpuset.memory_spread_page flag: if set, spread page cache evenly on allowed nodes
+ - cpuset.memory_spread_slab flag: if set, spread slab cache evenly on allowed nodes
+ - cpuset.sched_load_balance flag: if set, load balance within CPUs on that cpuset
+ - cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level: the searching range when migrating tasks
 
 In addition, the root cpuset only has the following file:
- - memory_pressure_enabled flag: compute memory_pressure?
+ - cpuset.memory_pressure_enabled flag: compute memory_pressure?
 
 New cpusets are created using the mkdir system call or shell
 command.  The properties of a cpuset, such as its flags, allowed
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ If a cpuset is cpu or mem exclusive, no other cpuset, other than
 a direct ancestor or descendant, may share any of the same CPUs or
 Memory Nodes.
 
-A cpuset that is mem_exclusive *or* mem_hardwall is "hardwalled",
+A cpuset that is cpuset.mem_exclusive *or* cpuset.mem_hardwall is "hardwalled",
 i.e. it restricts kernel allocations for page, buffer and other data
 commonly shared by the kernel across multiple users.  All cpusets,
 whether hardwalled or not, restrict allocations of memory for user
@@ -304,15 +304,15 @@ times 1000.
 ---------------------------
 There are two boolean flag files per cpuset that control where the
 kernel allocates pages for the file system buffers and related in
-kernel data structures.  They are called 'memory_spread_page' and
-'memory_spread_slab'.
+kernel data structures.  They are called 'cpuset.memory_spread_page' and
+'cpuset.memory_spread_slab'.
 
-If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_page' is set, then
+If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'cpuset.memory_spread_page' is set, then
 the kernel will spread the file system buffers (page cache) evenly
 over all the nodes that the faulting task is allowed to use, instead
 of preferring to put those pages on the node where the task is running.
 
-If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_slab' is set,
+If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'cpuset.memory_spread_slab' is set,
 then the kernel will spread some file system related slab caches,
 such as for inodes and dentries evenly over all the nodes that the
 faulting task is allowed to use, instead of preferring to put those
@@ -337,21 +337,21 @@ their containing tasks memory spread settings.  If memory spreading
 is turned off, then the currently specified NUMA mempolicy once again
 applies to memory page allocations.
 
-Both 'memory_spread_page' and 'memory_spread_slab' are boolean flag
+Both 'cpuset.memory_spread_page' and 'cpuset.memory_spread_slab' are boolean flag
 files.  By default they contain "0", meaning that the feature is off
 for that cpuset.  If a "1" is written to that file, then that turns
 the named feature on.
 
 The implementation is simple.
 
-Setting the flag 'memory_spread_page' turns on a per-process flag
+Setting the flag 'cpuset.memory_spread_page' turns on a per-process flag
 PF_SPREAD_PAGE for each task that is in that cpuset or subsequently
 joins that cpuset.  The page allocation calls for the page cache
 is modified to perform an inline check for this PF_SPREAD_PAGE task
 flag, and if set, a call to a new routine cpuset_mem_spread_node()
 returns the node to prefer for the allocation.
 
-Similarly, setting 'memory_spread_slab' turns on the flag
+Similarly, setting 'cpuset.memory_spread_slab' turns on the flag
 PF_SPREAD_SLAB, and appropriately marked slab caches will allocate
 pages from the node returned by cpuset_mem_spread_node().
 
@@ -404,24 +404,24 @@ the following two situations:
     system overhead on those CPUs, including avoiding task load
     balancing if that is not needed.
 
-When the per-cpuset flag "sched_load_balance" is enabled (the default
-setting), it requests that all the CPUs in that cpusets allowed 'cpus'
+When the per-cpuset flag "cpuset.sched_load_balance" is enabled (the default
+setting), it requests that all the CPUs in that cpusets allowed 'cpuset.cpus'
 be contained in a single sched domain, ensuring that load balancing
 can move a task (not otherwised pinned, as by sched_setaffinity)
 from any CPU in that cpuset to any other.
 
-When the per-cpuset flag "sched_load_balance" is disabled, then the
+When the per-cpuset flag "cpuset.sched_load_balance" is disabled, then the
 scheduler will avoid load balancing across the CPUs in that cpuset,
 --except-- in so far as is necessary because some overlapping cpuset
 has "sched_load_balance" enabled.
 
-So, for example, if the top cpuset has the flag "sched_load_balance"
+So, for example, if the top cpuset has the flag "cpuset.sched_load_balance"
 enabled, then the scheduler will have one sched domain covering all
-CPUs, and the setting of the "sched_load_balance" flag in any other
+CPUs, and the setting of the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" flag in any other
 cpusets won't matter, as we're already fully load balancing.
 
 Therefore in the above two situations, the top cpuset flag
-"sched_load_balance" should be disabled, and only some of the smaller,
+"cpuset.sched_load_balance" should be disabled, and only some of the smaller,
 child cpusets have this flag enabled.
 
 When doing this, you don't usually want to leave any unpinned tasks in
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ scheduler might not consider the possibility of load balancing that
 task to that underused CPU.
 
 Of course, tasks pinned to a particular CPU can be left in a cpuset
-that disables "sched_load_balance" as those tasks aren't going anywhere
+that disables "cpuset.sched_load_balance" as those tasks aren't going anywhere
 else anyway.
 
 There is an impedance mismatch here, between cpusets and sched domains.
@@ -443,19 +443,19 @@ overlap and each CPU is in at most one sched domain.
 It is necessary for sched domains to be flat because load balancing
 across partially overlapping sets of CPUs would risk unstable dynamics
 that would be beyond our understanding.  So if each of two partially
-overlapping cpusets enables the flag 'sched_load_balance', then we
+overlapping cpusets enables the flag 'cpuset.sched_load_balance', then we
 form a single sched domain that is a superset of both.  We won't move
 a task to a CPU outside it cpuset, but the scheduler load balancing
 code might waste some compute cycles considering that possibility.
 
 This mismatch is why there is not a simple one-to-one relation
-between which cpusets have the flag "sched_load_balance" enabled,
+between which cpusets have the flag "cpuset.sched_load_balance" enabled,
 and the sched domain configuration.  If a cpuset enables the flag, it
 will get balancing across all its CPUs, but if it disables the flag,
 it will only be assured of no load balancing if no other overlapping
 cpuset enables the flag.
 
-If two cpusets have partially overlapping 'cpus' allowed, and only
+If two cpusets have partially overlapping 'cpuset.cpus' allowed, and only
 one of them has this flag enabled, then the other may find its
 tasks only partially load balanced, just on the overlapping CPUs.
 This is just the general case of the top_cpuset example given a few
@@ -468,23 +468,23 @@ load balancing to the other CPUs.
 1.7.1 sched_load_balance implementation details.
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-The per-cpuset flag 'sched_load_balance' defaults to enabled (contrary
+The per-cpuset flag 'cpuset.sched_load_balance' defaults to enabled (contrary
 to most cpuset flags.)  When enabled for a cpuset, the kernel will
 ensure that it can load balance across all the CPUs in that cpuset
 (makes sure that all the CPUs in the cpus_allowed of that cpuset are
 in the same sched domain.)
 
-If two overlapping cpusets both have 'sched_load_balance' enabled,
+If two overlapping cpusets both have 'cpuset.sched_load_balance' enabled,
 then they will be (must be) both in the same sched domain.
 
-If, as is the default, the top cpuset has 'sched_load_balance' enabled,
+If, as is the default, the top cpuset has 'cpuset.sched_load_balance' enabled,
 then by the above that means there is a single sched domain covering
 the whole system, regardless of any other cpuset settings.
 
 The kernel commits to user space that it will avoid load balancing
 where it can.  It will pick as fine a granularity partition of sched
 domains as it can while still providing load balancing for any set
-of CPUs allowed to a cpuset having 'sched_load_balance' enabled.
+of CPUs allowed to a cpuset having 'cpuset.sched_load_balance' enabled.
 
 The internal kernel cpuset to scheduler interface passes from the
 cpuset code to the scheduler code a partition of the load balanced
@@ -495,9 +495,9 @@ all the CPUs that must be load balanced.
 The cpuset code builds a new such partition and passes it to the
 scheduler sched domain setup code, to have the sched domains rebuilt
 as necessary, whenever:
- - the 'sched_load_balance' flag of a cpuset with non-empty CPUs changes,
+ - the 'cpuset.sched_load_balance' flag of a cpuset with non-empty CPUs changes,
  - or CPUs come or go from a cpuset with this flag enabled,
- - or 'sched_relax_domain_level' value of a cpuset with non-empty CPUs
+ - or 'cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level' value of a cpuset with non-empty CPUs
    and with this flag enabled changes,
  - or a cpuset with non-empty CPUs and with this flag enabled is removed,
  - or a cpu is offlined/onlined.
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ As the result, task B on CPU X need to wait task A or wait load balance
 on the next tick.  For some applications in special situation, waiting
 1 tick may be too long.
 
-The 'sched_relax_domain_level' file allows you to request changing
+The 'cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level' file allows you to request changing
 this searching range as you like.  This file takes int value which
 indicates size of searching range in levels ideally as follows,
 otherwise initial value -1 that indicates the cpuset has no request.
@@ -559,8 +559,8 @@ The system default is architecture dependent.  The system default
 can be changed using the relax_domain_level= boot parameter.
 
 This file is per-cpuset and affect the sched domain where the cpuset
-belongs to.  Therefore if the flag 'sched_load_balance' of a cpuset
-is disabled, then 'sched_relax_domain_level' have no effect since
+belongs to.  Therefore if the flag 'cpuset.sched_load_balance' of a cpuset
+is disabled, then 'cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level' have no effect since
 there is no sched domain belonging the cpuset.
 
 If multiple cpusets are overlapping and hence they form a single sched
@@ -607,9 +607,9 @@ from one cpuset to another, then the kernel will adjust the tasks
 memory placement, as above, the next time that the kernel attempts
 to allocate a page of memory for that task.
 
-If a cpuset has its 'cpus' modified, then each task in that cpuset
+If a cpuset has its 'cpuset.cpus' modified, then each task in that cpuset
 will have its allowed CPU placement changed immediately.  Similarly,
-if a tasks pid is written to another cpusets 'tasks' file, then its
+if a tasks pid is written to another cpusets 'cpuset.tasks' file, then its
 allowed CPU placement is changed immediately.  If such a task had been
 bound to some subset of its cpuset using the sched_setaffinity() call,
 the task will be allowed to run on any CPU allowed in its new cpuset,
@@ -622,8 +622,8 @@ and the processor placement is updated immediately.
 Normally, once a page is allocated (given a physical page
 of main memory) then that page stays on whatever node it
 was allocated, so long as it remains allocated, even if the
-cpusets memory placement policy 'mems' subsequently changes.
-If the cpuset flag file 'memory_migrate' is set true, then when
+cpusets memory placement policy 'cpuset.mems' subsequently changes.
+If the cpuset flag file 'cpuset.memory_migrate' is set true, then when
 tasks are attached to that cpuset, any pages that task had
 allocated to it on nodes in its previous cpuset are migrated
 to the tasks new cpuset. The relative placement of the page within
@@ -631,12 +631,12 @@ the cpuset is preserved during these migration operations if possible.
 For example if the page was on the second valid node of the prior cpuset
 then the page will be placed on the second valid node of the new cpuset.
 
-Also if 'memory_migrate' is set true, then if that cpusets
-'mems' file is modified, pages allocated to tasks in that
-cpuset, that were on nodes in the previous setting of 'mems',
+Also if 'cpuset.memory_migrate' is set true, then if that cpusets
+'cpuset.mems' file is modified, pages allocated to tasks in that
+cpuset, that were on nodes in the previous setting of 'cpuset.mems',
 will be moved to nodes in the new setting of 'mems.'
 Pages that were not in the tasks prior cpuset, or in the cpusets
-prior 'mems' setting, will not be moved.
+prior 'cpuset.mems' setting, will not be moved.
 
 There is an exception to the above.  If hotplug functionality is used
 to remove all the CPUs that are currently assigned to a cpuset,
@@ -678,8 +678,8 @@ and then start a subshell 'sh' in that cpuset:
   cd /dev/cpuset
   mkdir Charlie
   cd Charlie
-  /bin/echo 2-3 > cpus
-  /bin/echo 1 > mems
+  /bin/echo 2-3 > cpuset.cpus
+  /bin/echo 1 > cpuset.mems
   /bin/echo $$ > tasks
   sh
   # The subshell 'sh' is now running in cpuset Charlie
@@ -725,10 +725,13 @@ Now you want to do something with this cpuset.
 
 In this directory you can find several files:
 # ls
-cpu_exclusive  memory_migrate      mems                      tasks
-cpus           memory_pressure     notify_on_release
-mem_exclusive  memory_spread_page  sched_load_balance
-mem_hardwall   memory_spread_slab  sched_relax_domain_level
+cpuset.cpu_exclusive       cpuset.memory_spread_slab
+cpuset.cpus                cpuset.mems
+cpuset.mem_exclusive       cpuset.sched_load_balance
+cpuset.mem_hardwall        cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level
+cpuset.memory_migrate      notify_on_release
+cpuset.memory_pressure     tasks
+cpuset.memory_spread_page
 
 Reading them will give you information about the state of this cpuset:
 the CPUs and Memory Nodes it can use, the processes that are using
@@ -736,13 +739,13 @@ it, its properties.  By writing to these files you can manipulate
 the cpuset.
 
 Set some flags:
-# /bin/echo 1 > cpu_exclusive
+# /bin/echo 1 > cpuset.cpu_exclusive
 
 Add some cpus:
-# /bin/echo 0-7 > cpus
+# /bin/echo 0-7 > cpuset.cpus
 
 Add some mems:
-# /bin/echo 0-7 > mems
+# /bin/echo 0-7 > cpuset.mems
 
 Now attach your shell to this cpuset:
 # /bin/echo $$ > tasks
@@ -774,28 +777,28 @@ echo "/sbin/cpuset_release_agent" > /dev/cpuset/release_agent
 This is the syntax to use when writing in the cpus or mems files
 in cpuset directories:
 
-# /bin/echo 1-4 > cpus          -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4
-# /bin/echo 1,2,3,4 > cpus      -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4
+# /bin/echo 1-4 > cpuset.cpus           -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4
+# /bin/echo 1,2,3,4 > cpuset.cpus       -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4
 
 To add a CPU to a cpuset, write the new list of CPUs including the
 CPU to be added. To add 6 to the above cpuset:
 
-# /bin/echo 1-4,6 > cpus        -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4,6
+# /bin/echo 1-4,6 > cpuset.cpus -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4,6
 
 Similarly to remove a CPU from a cpuset, write the new list of CPUs
 without the CPU to be removed.
 
 To remove all the CPUs:
 
-# /bin/echo "" > cpus           -> clear cpus list
+# /bin/echo "" > cpuset.cpus            -> clear cpus list
 
 2.3 Setting flags
 -----------------
 
 The syntax is very simple:
 
-# /bin/echo 1 > cpu_exclusive   -> set flag 'cpu_exclusive'
-# /bin/echo 0 > cpu_exclusive   -> unset flag 'cpu_exclusive'
+# /bin/echo 1 > cpuset.cpu_exclusive    -> set flag 'cpuset.cpu_exclusive'
+# /bin/echo 0 > cpuset.cpu_exclusive    -> unset flag 'cpuset.cpu_exclusive'
 
 2.4 Attaching processes
 -----------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/console/console.txt b/Documentation/console/console.txt
index 877a1b26cc3d..926cf1b5e63e 100644
--- a/Documentation/console/console.txt
+++ b/Documentation/console/console.txt
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ driver takes over the consoles vacated by the driver. Binding, on the other
 hand, will bind the driver to the consoles that are currently occupied by a
 system driver.
 
-NOTE1: Binding and binding must be selected in Kconfig. It's under:
+NOTE1: Binding and unbinding must be selected in Kconfig. It's under:
 
 Device Drivers -> Character devices -> Support for binding and unbinding
 console drivers
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
index 2e2c2ea90ceb..41f41632ee55 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
+++ b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ command line. This will execute all matching early_param() callbacks.
 User specified early platform devices will be registered at this point.
 For the early serial console case the user can specify port on the
 kernel command line as "earlyprintk=serial.0" where "earlyprintk" is
-the class string, "serial" is the name of the platfrom driver and
+the class string, "serial" is the name of the platform driver and
 0 is the platform device id. If the id is -1 then the dot and the
 id can be omitted.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/eisa.txt b/Documentation/eisa.txt
index 60e361ba08c0..f297fc1202ae 100644
--- a/Documentation/eisa.txt
+++ b/Documentation/eisa.txt
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ device.
 virtual_root.force_probe :
 
 Force the probing code to probe EISA slots even when it cannot find an
-EISA compliant mainboard (nothing appears on slot 0). Defaultd to 0
+EISA compliant mainboard (nothing appears on slot 0). Defaults to 0
 (don't force), and set to 1 (force probing) when either
 CONFIG_ALPHA_JENSEN or CONFIG_EISA_VLB_PRIMING are set.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 96a44dd95e03..a4f30faa4f1f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ asynchronous manner and the vaule may not be very precise. To see a precise
 snapshot of a moment, you can see /proc/<pid>/smaps file and scan page table.
 It's slow but very precise.
 
-Table 1-2: Contents of the statm files (as of 2.6.30-rc7)
+Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 2.6.30-rc7)
 ..............................................................................
  Field                       Content
  Name                        filename of the executable
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru b/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru
index 87ffa0f5ec70..5eb3b9d5f0d5 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Supported chips:
            bank1_types=1,1,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,1
            You may also need to specify the fan_sensors option for these boards
            fan_sensors=5
-        2) There is a seperate abituguru3 driver for these motherboards,
+        2) There is a separate abituguru3 driver for these motherboards,
            the abituguru (without the 3 !) driver will not work on these
            motherboards (and visa versa)!
 
diff --git a/Documentation/input/rotary-encoder.txt b/Documentation/input/rotary-encoder.txt
index 3a6aec40c0b0..8b4129de1d2d 100644
--- a/Documentation/input/rotary-encoder.txt
+++ b/Documentation/input/rotary-encoder.txt
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ and the number of steps or will clamp at the maximum and zero depending on
 the configuration.
 
 Because GPIO to IRQ mapping is platform specific, this information must
-be given in seperately to the driver. See the example below.
+be given in separately to the driver. See the example below.
 
 ---------<snip>---------
 
diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX b/Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX
index ee5692b26dd4..df4fb52d4594 100644
--- a/Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
         - This file
 acer-wmi.txt
         - information on the Acer Laptop WMI Extras driver.
+asus-laptop.txt
+        - information on the Asus Laptop Extras driver.
+disk-shock-protection.txt
+        - information on hard disk shock protection.
 laptop-mode.txt
         - how to conserve battery power using laptop-mode.
 sony-laptop.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/skfp.txt b/Documentation/networking/skfp.txt
index abfddf81e34a..203ec66c9fb4 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/skfp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/skfp.txt
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Compaq adapters (not tested):
 =======================
 
 From v2.01 on, the driver is integrated in the linux kernel sources.
-Therefor, the installation is the same as for any other adapter
+Therefore, the installation is the same as for any other adapter
 supported by the kernel.
 Refer to the manual of your distribution about the installation
 of network adapters.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c b/Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c
index a7936fe8444a..bab619a48214 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c
+++ b/Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
         }
 
         sock = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP);
-        if (socket < 0)
+        if (sock < 0)
                 bail("socket");
 
         memset(&device, 0, sizeof(device));
diff --git a/Documentation/pnp.txt b/Documentation/pnp.txt
index a327db67782a..763e4659bf18 100644
--- a/Documentation/pnp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pnp.txt
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ PC standard floppy disk controller
 # cat resources
 DISABLED
 
-- Notice the string "DISABLED".  THis means the device is not active.
+- Notice the string "DISABLED".  This means the device is not active.
 
 3.) check the device's possible configurations (optional)
 # cat options
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Plug and Play but it is planned to be in the near future.
 
 Requirements for a Linux PnP protocol:
 1.) the protocol must use EISA IDs
-2.) the protocol must inform the PnP Layer of a devices current configuration
+2.) the protocol must inform the PnP Layer of a device's current configuration
 - the ability to set resources is optional but preferred.
 
 The following are PnP protocol related functions:
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ pnp_remove_device
 - automatically will free mem used by the device and related structures
 
 pnp_add_id
-- adds a EISA ID to the list of supported IDs for the specified device
+- adds an EISA ID to the list of supported IDs for the specified device
 
 For more information consult the source of a protocol such as
 /drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c.
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ For more information consult the source of a protocol such as
 
 Linux Plug and Play Drivers
 ---------------------------
-        This section contains information for linux PnP driver developers.
+        This section contains information for Linux PnP driver developers.
 
 The New Way
 ...........
@@ -235,11 +235,10 @@ static int __init serial8250_pnp_init(void)
 The Old Way
 ...........
 
-a series of compatibility functions have been created to make it easy to convert 
-
+A series of compatibility functions have been created to make it easy to convert
 ISAPNP drivers.  They should serve as a temporary solution only.
 
-they are as follows:
+They are as follows:
 
 struct pnp_card *pnp_find_card(unsigned short vendor,
                                  unsigned short device,
diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
index ab00eeddecaf..55b859b3bc72 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ drivers/base/power/runtime.c and include/linux/pm_runtime.h:
       to suspend the device again in future
 
   int pm_runtime_resume(struct device *dev);
-    - execute the subsystem-leve resume callback for the device; returns 0 on
+    - execute the subsystem-level resume callback for the device; returns 0 on
       success, 1 if the device's run-time PM status was already 'active' or
       error code on failure, where -EAGAIN means it may be safe to attempt to
       resume the device again in future, but 'power.runtime_error' should be
diff --git a/Documentation/s390/kvm.txt b/Documentation/s390/kvm.txt
index 6f5ceb0f09fc..85f3280d7ef6 100644
--- a/Documentation/s390/kvm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/s390/kvm.txt
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ args:		unsigned long
 see also:       include/linux/kvm.h
 This ioctl stores the state of the cpu at the guest real address given as
 argument, unless one of the following values defined in include/linux/kvm.h
-is given as arguement:
+is given as argument:
 KVM_S390_STORE_STATUS_NOADDR - the CPU stores its status to the save area in
 absolute lowcore as defined by the principles of operation
 KVM_S390_STORE_STATUS_PREFIXED - the CPU stores its status to the save area in
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc
index ff19a52fe004..2ffc1148eb95 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc
@@ -989,8 +989,8 @@ Changes from 20040709 to 20040716
         * Remove redundant port_cmp != 2 check in if
           (!port_cmp) { .... if (port_cmp != 2).... }
         * Clock changes: removed struct clk_data and timerList.
-        * Clock changes: seperate nodev_tmo and els_retry_delay into 2
-          seperate timers and convert to 1 argument changed
+        * Clock changes: separate nodev_tmo and els_retry_delay into 2
+          separate timers and convert to 1 argument changed
           LPFC_NODE_FARP_PEND_t to struct lpfc_node_farp_pend convert
           ipfarp_tmo to 1 argument convert target struct tmofunc and
           rtplunfunc to 1 argument * cr_count, cr_delay and
@@ -1514,7 +1514,7 @@ Changes from 20040402 to 20040409
         * Remove unused elxclock declaration in elx_sli.h.
         * Since everywhere IOCB_ENTRY is used, the return value is cast,
           move the cast into the macro.
-        * Split ioctls out into seperate files
+        * Split ioctls out into separate files
 
 Changes from 20040326 to 20040402
 
@@ -1534,7 +1534,7 @@ Changes from 20040326 to 20040402
         * Unused variable cleanup
         * Use Linux list macros for DMABUF_t
         * Break up ioctls into 3 sections, dfc, util, hbaapi
-          rearranged code so this could be easily seperated into a
+          rearranged code so this could be easily separated into a
           differnet module later All 3 are currently turned on by
           defines in lpfc_ioctl.c LPFC_DFC_IOCTL, LPFC_UTIL_IOCTL,
           LPFC_HBAAPI_IOCTL
@@ -1551,7 +1551,7 @@ Changes from 20040326 to 20040402
           started by lpfc_online().  lpfc_offline() only stopped
           els_timeout routine.  It now stops all timeout routines
           associated with that hba.
-        * Replace seperate next and prev pointers in struct
+        * Replace separate next and prev pointers in struct
           lpfc_bindlist with list_head type.  In elxHBA_t, replace
           fc_nlpbind_start and _end with fc_nlpbind_list and use
           list_head macros to access it.
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
index bab3040da548..03485bfbd797 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
@@ -1588,7 +1588,7 @@ module author does not need to worry about it.
 
 When tracing is enabled, kstop_machine is called to prevent
 races with the CPUS executing code being modified (which can
-cause the CPU to do undesireable things), and the nops are
+cause the CPU to do undesirable things), and the nops are
 patched back to calls. But this time, they do not call mcount
 (which is just a function stub). They now call into the ftrace
 infrastructure.
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/bootp/init.S b/arch/arm/boot/bootp/init.S
index df7bc7068d0f..8b0de41c3dcb 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/bootp/init.S
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/bootp/init.S
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ _start:		add	lr, pc, #-0x8		@ lr = current load addr
 /*
  * find the end of the tag list, and then add an INITRD tag on the end.
  * If there is already an INITRD tag, then we ignore it; the last INITRD
- * tag takes precidence.
+ * tag takes precedence.
  */
 taglist:        ldr     r10, [r9, #0]           @ tag length
                 teq     r10, #0                 @ last tag (zero length)?
diff --git a/arch/arm/common/clkdev.c b/arch/arm/common/clkdev.c
index 446b696196e3..6416d5b5020d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/common/clkdev.c
+++ b/arch/arm/common/clkdev.c
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(clocks_mutex);
  *  If an entry has a device ID, it must match
  *  If an entry has a connection ID, it must match
  * Then we take the most specific entry - with the following
- * order of precidence: dev+con > dev only > con only.
+ * order of precedence: dev+con > dev only > con only.
  */
 static struct clk *clk_find(const char *dev_id, const char *con_id)
 {
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-at91/include/mach/at91_mci.h b/arch/arm/mach-at91/include/mach/at91_mci.h
index 550d503a1bca..57f8ee154943 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-at91/include/mach/at91_mci.h
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-at91/include/mach/at91_mci.h
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 
 #define AT91_MCI_BLKR           0x18            /* Block Register */
 #define         AT91_MCI_BLKR_BCNT(n)   ((0xffff & (n)) << 0)   /* Block count */
-#define         AT91_MCI_BLKR_BLKLEN(n) ((0xffff & (n)) << 16)  /* Block lenght */
+#define         AT91_MCI_BLKR_BLKLEN(n) ((0xffff & (n)) << 16)  /* Block length */
 
 #define AT91_MCI_RSPR(n)        (0x20 + ((n) * 4))      /* Response Registers 0-3 */
 #define AT91_MCR_RDR            0x30            /* Receive Data Register */
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-davinci/include/mach/i2c.h b/arch/arm/mach-davinci/include/mach/i2c.h
index 39fdceac8414..2312d197dfb7 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-davinci/include/mach/i2c.h
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-davinci/include/mach/i2c.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * DaVinci I2C controller platfrom_device info
+ * DaVinci I2C controller platform_device info
  *
  * Author: Vladimir Barinov, MontaVista Software, Inc. <source@mvista.com>
  *
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/micro9.c b/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/micro9.c
index f3757a1c5a10..c33360e82868 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/micro9.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/micro9.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
  *
  * Micro9-High has up to 64MB of 32-bit flash on CS1
  * Micro9-Mid has up to 64MB of either 32-bit or 16-bit flash on CS1
- * Micro9-Lite uses a seperate MTD map driver for flash support
+ * Micro9-Lite uses a separate MTD map driver for flash support
  * Micro9-Slim has up to 64MB of either 32-bit or 16-bit flash on CS1
  *************************************************************************/
 static struct physmap_flash_data micro9_flash_data;
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-nomadik/board-nhk8815.c b/arch/arm/mach-nomadik/board-nhk8815.c
index 9438bf6613a3..ab3712c86d2b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-nomadik/board-nhk8815.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-nomadik/board-nhk8815.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define SRC_CR_INIT_MASK        0x00007fff
 #define SRC_CR_INIT_VAL         0x2aaa8000
 
-/* These adresses span 16MB, so use three individual pages */
+/* These addresses span 16MB, so use three individual pages */
 static struct resource nhk8815_nand_resources[] = {
         {
                 .name = "nand_addr",
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-3630sdp.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-3630sdp.c
index 4386d2b4a785..4386d2b4a785 100755..100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-3630sdp.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-3630sdp.c
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-zoom-peripherals.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-zoom-peripherals.c
index ca95d8d64136..ca95d8d64136 100755..100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-zoom-peripherals.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-zoom-peripherals.c
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/include/mach/spi-gpio.h b/arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/include/mach/spi-gpio.h
index 980a099e209c..dcef2287cb38 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/include/mach/spi-gpio.h
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/include/mach/spi-gpio.h
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  * Copyright (c) 2006 Simtec Electronics
  *      Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk>
  *
- * S3C2410 - SPI Controller platfrom_device info
+ * S3C2410 - SPI Controller platform_device info
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-s5pc100/setup-sdhci.c b/arch/arm/mach-s5pc100/setup-sdhci.c
index 4385986a3da0..ea7ff19adb95 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-s5pc100/setup-sdhci.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-s5pc100/setup-sdhci.c
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
 char *s5pc100_hsmmc_clksrcs[4] = {
         [0] = "hsmmc",
         [1] = "hsmmc",
-        /* [2] = "mmc_bus", not yet succesfuuly used yet */
-        /* [3] = "48m", - note not succesfully used yet */
+        /* [2] = "mmc_bus", not yet successfully used yet */
+        /* [3] = "48m", - note not successfully used yet */
 };
 
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-u300/core.c b/arch/arm/mach-u300/core.c
index 01b50313914c..5f34eb674d68 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-u300/core.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-u300/core.c
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ static struct resource ave_resources[] = {
         /*
          * The AVE3e requires two regions of 256MB that it considers
          * "invisible". The hardware will not be able to access these
-         * adresses, so they should never point to system RAM.
+         * addresses, so they should never point to system RAM.
          */
         {
                 .name  = "AVE3e Reserved 0",
@@ -1596,7 +1596,7 @@ static void __init u300_init_check_chip(void)
 /*
  * Some devices and their resources require reserved physical memory from
  * the end of the available RAM. This function traverses the list of devices
- * and assigns actual adresses to these.
+ * and assigns actual addresses to these.
  */
 static void __init u300_assign_physmem(void)
 {
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S b/arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
index ca4a028c2661..92c12420256f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 #include <mach/hardware.h>
 
         .macro  addruart, rx, tmp
-        /* If we move the adress using MMU, use this. */
+        /* If we move the address using MMU, use this. */
         mrc     p15, 0, \rx, c1, c0
         tst     \rx, #1                 @ MMU enabled?
         ldreq   \rx,      = U300_SLOW_PER_PHYS_BASE @ MMU off, physical address
diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-s3c/include/plat/gpio-cfg-helpers.h b/arch/arm/plat-s3c/include/plat/gpio-cfg-helpers.h
index 652e2bbdaa20..dda19da037ad 100644
--- a/arch/arm/plat-s3c/include/plat/gpio-cfg-helpers.h
+++ b/arch/arm/plat-s3c/include/plat/gpio-cfg-helpers.h
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ extern int s3c_gpio_setcfg_s3c24xx_a(struct s3c_gpio_chip *chip,
  *      others = Special functions (dependant on bank)
  *
  * Note, since the code to deal with the case where there are two control
- * registers instead of one, we do not have a seperate set of functions for
+ * registers instead of one, we do not have a separate set of functions for
  * each case.
 */
 extern int s3c_gpio_setcfg_s3c64xx_4bit(struct s3c_gpio_chip *chip,
diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-s3c/include/plat/nand.h b/arch/arm/plat-s3c/include/plat/nand.h
index 226147b7e026..b64115fa93a4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/plat-s3c/include/plat/nand.h
+++ b/arch/arm/plat-s3c/include/plat/nand.h
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  * Copyright (c) 2004 Simtec Electronics
  *      Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk>
  *
- * S3C2410 - NAND device controller platfrom_device info
+ * S3C2410 - NAND device controller platform_device info
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-s3c/include/plat/regs-usb-hsotg-phy.h b/arch/arm/plat-s3c/include/plat/regs-usb-hsotg-phy.h
index 36a85f5000c8..a111ad871833 100644
--- a/arch/arm/plat-s3c/include/plat/regs-usb-hsotg-phy.h
+++ b/arch/arm/plat-s3c/include/plat/regs-usb-hsotg-phy.h
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.
 */
 
-/* Note, this is a seperate header file as some of the clock framework
+/* Note, this is a separate header file as some of the clock framework
  * needs to touch this if the clk_48m is used as the USB OHCI or other
  * peripheral source.
 */
diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/include/plat/cpu-freq-core.h b/arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/include/plat/cpu-freq-core.h
index 33d421d78bad..d623235ae961 100644
--- a/arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/include/plat/cpu-freq-core.h
+++ b/arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/include/plat/cpu-freq-core.h
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ struct s3c_cpufreq_config {
  * @locktime_m: The lock-time in uS for the MPLL.
  * @locktime_u: The lock-time in uS for the UPLL.
  * @locttime_bits: The number of bits each LOCKTIME field.
- * @need_pll: Set if this driver needs to change the PLL values to acheive
+ * @need_pll: Set if this driver needs to change the PLL values to achieve
  *      any frequency changes. This is really only need by devices like the
  *      S3C2410 where there is no or limited divider between the PLL and the
  *      ARMCLK.
diff --git a/arch/blackfin/include/asm/nand.h b/arch/blackfin/include/asm/nand.h
index 3ae8b569edfc..3a1e79dfc8d9 100644
--- a/arch/blackfin/include/asm/nand.h
+++ b/arch/blackfin/include/asm/nand.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * BF5XX - NAND flash controller platfrom_device info
+ * BF5XX - NAND flash controller platform_device info
  *
  * Copyright 2007-2008 Analog Devices, Inc.
  *
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 /* struct bf5xx_nand_platform
  *
- * define a interface between platfrom board specific code and
+ * define a interface between platform board specific code and
  * bf54x NFC driver.
  *
  * nr_partitions = number of partitions pointed to be partitoons (or zero)
diff --git a/arch/cris/arch-v10/lib/old_checksum.c b/arch/cris/arch-v10/lib/old_checksum.c
index 1734b467efa6..8f79163f1394 100644
--- a/arch/cris/arch-v10/lib/old_checksum.c
+++ b/arch/cris/arch-v10/lib/old_checksum.c
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ __wsum csum_partial(const void *p, int len, __wsum __sum)
                 sum += *buff++;
 
         if (endMarker > buff)
-                sum += *(const u8 *)buff;       /* add extra byte seperately */
+                sum += *(const u8 *)buff;       /* add extra byte separately */
 
         BITOFF;
         return (__force __wsum)sum;
diff --git a/arch/cris/arch-v32/mm/tlb.c b/arch/cris/arch-v32/mm/tlb.c
index 6779bcb28ab0..c030d020660a 100644
--- a/arch/cris/arch-v32/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/cris/arch-v32/mm/tlb.c
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
                 spin_unlock(&mmu_context_lock);
 
                 /*
-                 * Remember the pgd for the fault handlers. Keep a seperate
+                 * Remember the pgd for the fault handlers. Keep a separate
                  * copy of it because current and active_mm might be invalid
                  * at points where * there's still a need to derefer the pgd.
                  */
diff --git a/arch/h8300/include/asm/io.h b/arch/h8300/include/asm/io.h
index 33e842f3284b..c1a8df22080f 100644
--- a/arch/h8300/include/asm/io.h
+++ b/arch/h8300/include/asm/io.h
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
  * memory location directly.
  */
 /* ++roman: The assignments to temp. vars avoid that gcc sometimes generates
- * two accesses to memory, which may be undesireable for some devices.
+ * two accesses to memory, which may be undesirable for some devices.
  */
 
 /*
diff --git a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c
index e456f062f241..d00dfc180021 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ static void __cpuinit sn_check_for_wars(void)
  * Note:  This stuff is duped here because Altix requires the PCDP to
  * locate a usable VGA device due to lack of proper ACPI support.  Structures
  * could be used from drivers/firmware/pcdp.h, but it was decided that moving
- * this file to a more public location just for Altix use was undesireable.
+ * this file to a more public location just for Altix use was undesirable.
  */
 
 struct hcdp_uart_desc {
diff --git a/arch/m68k/atari/atakeyb.c b/arch/m68k/atari/atakeyb.c
index 4add96d13b19..5890897d28bf 100644
--- a/arch/m68k/atari/atakeyb.c
+++ b/arch/m68k/atari/atakeyb.c
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ KEYBOARD_STATE kb_state;
  * bytes have been lost and in which state of the packet structure we are now.
  * This usually causes keyboards bytes to be interpreted as mouse movements
  * and vice versa, which is very annoying. It seems better to throw away some
- * bytes (that are usually mouse bytes) than to misinterpret them. Therefor I
+ * bytes (that are usually mouse bytes) than to misinterpret them. Therefore I
  * introduced the RESYNC state for IKBD data. In this state, the bytes up to
  * one that really looks like a key event (0x04..0xf2) or the start of a mouse
  * packet (0xf8..0xfb) are thrown away, but at most 2 bytes. This at least
diff --git a/arch/m68k/include/asm/fbio.h b/arch/m68k/include/asm/fbio.h
index b9215a0907d3..0a21da87f7d6 100644
--- a/arch/m68k/include/asm/fbio.h
+++ b/arch/m68k/include/asm/fbio.h
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ struct mdi_cfginfo {
         int     mdi_ncluts;     /* Number of implemented CLUTs in this MDI */
         int     mdi_type;       /* FBTYPE name */
         int     mdi_height;     /* height */
-        int     mdi_width;      /* widht */
+        int     mdi_width;      /* width */
         int     mdi_size;       /* available ram */
         int     mdi_mode;       /* 8bpp, 16bpp or 32bpp */
         int     mdi_pixfreq;    /* pixel clock (from PROM) */
diff --git a/arch/m68k/include/asm/io_no.h b/arch/m68k/include/asm/io_no.h
index 359065d5a9f2..6e2413e518cb 100644
--- a/arch/m68k/include/asm/io_no.h
+++ b/arch/m68k/include/asm/io_no.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  * memory location directly.
  */
 /* ++roman: The assignments to temp. vars avoid that gcc sometimes generates
- * two accesses to memory, which may be undesireable for some devices.
+ * two accesses to memory, which may be undesirable for some devices.
  */
 
 /*
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/kmeter1.dts b/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/kmeter1.dts
index 65b8b4f27efe..d8b5d12fb663 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/kmeter1.dts
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/kmeter1.dts
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@
                         compatible = "cfi-flash";
                         /*
                          * The Intel P30 chip has 2 non-identical chips on
-                         * one die, so we need to define 2 seperate regions
+                         * one die, so we need to define 2 separate regions
                          * that are scanned by physmap_of independantly.
                          */
                         reg = <0 0x00000000 0x02000000
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c
index 9ddfaef1a184..035ada5443ee 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ static int __init serial_dev_init(void)
                 return -ENODEV;
 
         /*
-         * Before we register the platfrom serial devices, we need
+         * Before we register the platform serial devices, we need
          * to fixup their interrupts and their IO ports.
          */
         DBG("Fixing serial ports interrupts and IO ports ...\n");
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c
index 4ec900af332f..b1dbd9ee87cc 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 #include "mmu_decl.h"
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_KERNEL_START_BOOL) || defined(CONFIG_LOWMEM_SIZE_BOOL)
-/* The ammount of lowmem must be within 0xF0000000 - KERNELBASE. */
+/* The amount of lowmem must be within 0xF0000000 - KERNELBASE. */
 #if (CONFIG_LOWMEM_SIZE > (0xF0000000 - PAGE_OFFSET))
 #error "You must adjust CONFIG_LOWMEM_SIZE or CONFIG_START_KERNEL"
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/s390/crypto/sha_common.c b/arch/s390/crypto/sha_common.c
index 7903ec47e6b9..f42dbabc0d30 100644
--- a/arch/s390/crypto/sha_common.c
+++ b/arch/s390/crypto/sha_common.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ int s390_sha_final(struct shash_desc *desc, u8 *out)
         memset(ctx->buf + index, 0x00, end - index - 8);
 
         /*
-         * Append message length. Well, SHA-512 wants a 128 bit lenght value,
+         * Append message length. Well, SHA-512 wants a 128 bit length value,
          * nevertheless we use u64, should be enough for now...
          */
         bits = ctx->count * 8;
diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/cio.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/cio.h
index e85679af54dd..e34347d567a6 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/cio.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/cio.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 /**
  * struct ccw1 - channel command word
  * @cmd_code: command code
- * @flags: flags, like IDA adressing, etc.
+ * @flags: flags, like IDA addressing, etc.
  * @count: byte count
  * @cda: data address
  *
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/sclp.S b/arch/s390/kernel/sclp.S
index 27af3bf3a009..2e82fdd89320 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/sclp.S
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/sclp.S
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ _sclp_print:
         lh      %r9,0(%r8)                      # update sccb length
         ar      %r9,%r6
         sth     %r9,0(%r8)
-        ar      %r7,%r6                         # update current mto adress
+        ar      %r7,%r6                         # update current mto address
         ltr     %r0,%r0                         # more characters?
         jnz     .LinitmtoS4
         l       %r2,.LwritedataS4-.LbaseS4(%r13)# write data
diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/cpu/clock.c b/arch/sh/kernel/cpu/clock.c
index 83da5debeedf..e9fa1bfed53e 100644
--- a/arch/sh/kernel/cpu/clock.c
+++ b/arch/sh/kernel/cpu/clock.c
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clk_round_rate);
  *  If an entry has a device ID, it must match
  *  If an entry has a connection ID, it must match
  * Then we take the most specific entry - with the following
- * order of precidence: dev+con > dev only > con only.
+ * order of precedence: dev+con > dev only > con only.
  */
 static struct clk *clk_find(const char *dev_id, const char *con_id)
 {
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/fbio.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/fbio.h
index b9215a0907d3..0a21da87f7d6 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/fbio.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/fbio.h
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ struct mdi_cfginfo {
         int     mdi_ncluts;     /* Number of implemented CLUTs in this MDI */
         int     mdi_type;       /* FBTYPE name */
         int     mdi_height;     /* height */
-        int     mdi_width;      /* widht */
+        int     mdi_width;      /* width */
         int     mdi_size;       /* available ram */
         int     mdi_mode;       /* 8bpp, 16bpp or 32bpp */
         int     mdi_pixfreq;    /* pixel clock (from PROM) */
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c
index 9f2b2bac8b2b..b867ab3353b4 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -1353,7 +1353,7 @@ static void perf_callchain_user_32(struct pt_regs *regs,
 }
 
 /* Like powerpc we can't get PMU interrupts within the PMU handler,
- * so no need for seperate NMI and IRQ chains as on x86.
+ * so no need for separate NMI and IRQ chains as on x86.
  */
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct perf_callchain_entry, callchain);
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/twofish-i586-asm_32.S b/arch/x86/crypto/twofish-i586-asm_32.S
index 39b98ed2c1b9..575331cb2a8a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/crypto/twofish-i586-asm_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/crypto/twofish-i586-asm_32.S
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
 
-/* return adress at 0 */
+/* return address at 0 */
 
 #define in_blk    12  /* input byte array address parameter*/
 #define out_blk   8  /* output byte array address parameter*/
@@ -230,8 +230,8 @@ twofish_enc_blk:
         push    %edi
 
         mov     tfm + 16(%esp), %ebp    /* abuse the base pointer: set new base bointer to the crypto tfm */
-        add     $crypto_tfm_ctx_offset, %ebp    /* ctx adress */
-        mov     in_blk+16(%esp),%edi    /* input adress in edi */
+        add     $crypto_tfm_ctx_offset, %ebp    /* ctx address */
+        mov     in_blk+16(%esp),%edi    /* input address in edi */
 
         mov     (%edi),         %eax
         mov     b_offset(%edi), %ebx
@@ -286,8 +286,8 @@ twofish_dec_blk:
 
 
         mov     tfm + 16(%esp), %ebp    /* abuse the base pointer: set new base bointer to the crypto tfm */
-        add     $crypto_tfm_ctx_offset, %ebp    /* ctx adress */
-        mov     in_blk+16(%esp),%edi    /* input adress in edi */
+        add     $crypto_tfm_ctx_offset, %ebp    /* ctx address */
+        mov     in_blk+16(%esp),%edi    /* input address in edi */
 
         mov     (%edi),         %eax
         mov     b_offset(%edi), %ebx
diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/twofish-x86_64-asm_64.S b/arch/x86/crypto/twofish-x86_64-asm_64.S
index 35974a586615..573aa102542e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/crypto/twofish-x86_64-asm_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/crypto/twofish-x86_64-asm_64.S
@@ -221,11 +221,11 @@
 twofish_enc_blk:
         pushq    R1
 
-        /* %rdi contains the crypto tfm adress */
-        /* %rsi contains the output adress */
-        /* %rdx contains the input adress */
-        add     $crypto_tfm_ctx_offset, %rdi    /* set ctx adress */
-        /* ctx adress is moved to free one non-rex register
+        /* %rdi contains the crypto tfm address */
+        /* %rsi contains the output address */
+        /* %rdx contains the input address */
+        add     $crypto_tfm_ctx_offset, %rdi    /* set ctx address */
+        /* ctx address is moved to free one non-rex register
         as target for the 8bit high operations */
         mov     %rdi,           %r11
 
@@ -274,11 +274,11 @@ twofish_enc_blk:
 twofish_dec_blk:
         pushq    R1
 
-        /* %rdi contains the crypto tfm adress */
-        /* %rsi contains the output adress */
-        /* %rdx contains the input adress */
-        add     $crypto_tfm_ctx_offset, %rdi    /* set ctx adress */
-        /* ctx adress is moved to free one non-rex register
+        /* %rdi contains the crypto tfm address */
+        /* %rsi contains the output address */
+        /* %rdx contains the input address */
+        add     $crypto_tfm_ctx_offset, %rdi    /* set ctx address */
+        /* ctx address is moved to free one non-rex register
         as target for the 8bit high operations */
         mov     %rdi,           %r11
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_flat_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_flat_64.c
index e3c3d820c325..09d3b17ce0c2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_flat_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_flat_64.c
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ struct apic apic_flat =  {
 };
 
 /*
- * Physflat mode is used when there are more than 8 CPUs on a AMD system.
+ * Physflat mode is used when there are more than 8 CPUs on a system.
  * We cannot use logical delivery in this case because the mask
  * overflows, so use physical mode.
  */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
index 2d8b5035371c..3d1e6f16b7a6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 #define GET_CR2_INTO_RCX movq %cr2, %rcx
 #endif
 
-/* we are not able to switch in one step to the final KERNEL ADRESS SPACE
+/* we are not able to switch in one step to the final KERNEL ADDRESS SPACE
  * because we need identity-mapped pages.
  *
  */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-calgary_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-calgary_64.c
index 2bbde6078143..fb99f7edb341 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-calgary_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-calgary_64.c
@@ -1309,7 +1309,7 @@ static void calgary_init_bitmap_from_tce_table(struct iommu_table *tbl)
 /*
  * get_tce_space_from_tar():
  * Function for kdump case. Get the tce tables from first kernel
- * by reading the contents of the base adress register of calgary iommu
+ * by reading the contents of the base address register of calgary iommu
  */
 static void __init get_tce_space_from_tar(void)
 {
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
index 1aa966c565f9..a4ac764a6880 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ int iommu_detected __read_mostly = 0;
  * This variable becomes 1 if iommu=pt is passed on the kernel command line.
  * If this variable is 1, IOMMU implementations do no DMA translation for
  * devices and allow every device to access to whole physical memory. This is
- * useful if a user want to use an IOMMU only for KVM device assignment to
+ * useful if a user wants to use an IOMMU only for KVM device assignment to
  * guests and not for driver dma translation.
  */
 int iommu_pass_through __read_mostly;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
index 2d96aab82a48..a503b1fd04e5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ ptrace_modify_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp, int len, int type,
         struct perf_event_attr attr;
 
         /*
-         * We shoud have at least an inactive breakpoint at this
+         * We should have at least an inactive breakpoint at this
          * slot. It means the user is writing dr7 without having
          * written the address register first
          */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index 208a857c679f..9faf91ae1841 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ u64 native_sched_clock(void)
          *   unstable. We do this because unlike Time Of Day,
          *   the scheduler clock tolerates small errors and it's
          *   very important for it to be as fast as the platform
-         *   can achive it. )
+         *   can achieve it. )
          */
         if (unlikely(tsc_disabled)) {
                 /* No locking but a rare wrong value is not a big deal: */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmiclock_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vmiclock_32.c
index 2f1ca5614292..5e1ff66ecd73 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmiclock_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmiclock_32.c
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ static int vmi_timer_next_event(unsigned long delta,
 {
         /* Unfortunately, set_next_event interface only passes relative
          * expiry, but we want absolute expiry.  It'd be better if were
-         * were passed an aboslute expiry, since a bunch of time may
+         * were passed an absolute expiry, since a bunch of time may
          * have been stolen between the time the delta is computed and
          * when we set the alarm below. */
         cycle_t now = vmi_timer_ops.get_cycle_counter(vmi_counter(VMI_ONESHOT));
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/smp.c b/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
index 563d20504988..deafb65ef44e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ static void xen_cpu_die(unsigned int cpu)
                 alternatives_smp_switch(0);
 }
 
-static void __cpuinit xen_play_dead(void) /* used only with CPU_HOTPLUG */
+static void __cpuinit xen_play_dead(void) /* used only with HOTPLUG_CPU */
 {
         play_dead_common();
         HYPERVISOR_vcpu_op(VCPUOP_down, smp_processor_id(), NULL);
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/kernel/entry.S b/arch/xtensa/kernel/entry.S
index 80d24c485fd3..77fc9f6dc016 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/entry.S
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
  *   excsave has been restored, and
  *   stack pointer (a1) has been set.
  *
- * Note: _user_exception might be at an odd adress. Don't use call0..call12
+ * Note: _user_exception might be at an odd address. Don't use call0..call12
  */
 
 ENTRY(user_exception)
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ _user_exception:
  *   excsave has been restored, and
  *   stack pointer (a1) has been set.
  *
- * Note: _kernel_exception might be at an odd adress. Don't use call0..call12
+ * Note: _kernel_exception might be at an odd address. Don't use call0..call12
  */
 
 ENTRY(kernel_exception)
diff --git a/block/bsg.c b/block/bsg.c
index a9fd2d84b53a..46597a6bd112 100644
--- a/block/bsg.c
+++ b/block/bsg.c
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ bsg_map_hdr(struct bsg_device *bd, struct sg_io_v4 *hdr, fmode_t has_write_perm,
                 return ERR_PTR(ret);
 
         /*
-         * map scatter-gather elements seperately and string them to request
+         * map scatter-gather elements separately and string them to request
          */
         rq = blk_get_request(q, rw, GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!rq)
diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig
index 6a2e295ee227..403857ad06d4 100644
--- a/crypto/Kconfig
+++ b/crypto/Kconfig
@@ -826,8 +826,8 @@ config CRYPTO_ANSI_CPRNG
         help
           This option enables the generic pseudo random number generator
           for cryptographic modules.  Uses the Algorithm specified in
-          ANSI X9.31 A.2.4. Not this option must be enabled if CRYPTO_FIPS 
-          is selected
+          ANSI X9.31 A.2.4. Note that this option must be enabled if
+          CRYPTO_FIPS is selected
 
 source "drivers/crypto/Kconfig"
 
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/dock.c b/drivers/acpi/dock.c
index b2586f57e1f5..d9a85f1ddde6 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/dock.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/dock.c
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ register_hotplug_dock_device(acpi_handle handle, struct acpi_dock_ops *ops,
         list_for_each_entry(dock_station, &dock_stations, sibling) {
                 /*
                  * An ATA bay can be in a dock and itself can be ejected
-                 * seperately, so there are two 'dock stations' which need the
+                 * separately, so there are two 'dock stations' which need the
                  * ops
                  */
                 dd = find_dock_dependent_device(dock_station, handle);
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/proc.c b/drivers/acpi/proc.c
index d0d25e2e1ced..1ac678d2c51c 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/proc.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/proc.c
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ acpi_system_write_wakeup_device(struct file *file,
                                 found_dev->wakeup.gpe_device)) {
                                 printk(KERN_WARNING
                                        "ACPI: '%s' and '%s' have the same GPE, "
-                                       "can't disable/enable one seperately\n",
+                                       "can't disable/enable one separately\n",
                                        dev->pnp.bus_id, found_dev->pnp.bus_id);
                                 dev->wakeup.state.enabled =
                                     found_dev->wakeup.state.enabled;
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
index 9c77b0d1a9d0..4a28420efff2 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
@@ -2232,7 +2232,7 @@ retry:
                  * Some drives were very specific about that exact sequence.
                  *
                  * Note that ATA4 says lba is mandatory so the second check
-                 * shoud never trigger.
+                 * should never trigger.
                  */
                 if (ata_id_major_version(id) < 4 || !ata_id_has_lba(id)) {
                         err_mask = ata_dev_init_params(dev, id[3], id[6]);
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c b/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
index 02441fd57e9e..561dec2481cb 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
@@ -2287,7 +2287,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ata_sff_postreset);
  *      @qc: command
  *
  *      Drain the FIFO and device of any stuck data following a command
- *      failing to complete. In some cases this is neccessary before a
+ *      failing to complete. In some cases this is necessary before a
  *      reset will recover the device.
  *
  */
diff --git a/drivers/ata/pata_acpi.c b/drivers/ata/pata_acpi.c
index 294f3020a78a..8e5e13210426 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/pata_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/pata_acpi.c
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static void pacpi_set_dmamode(struct ata_port *ap, struct ata_device *adev)
  *
  *      Called when the libata layer is about to issue a command. We wrap
  *      this interface so that we can load the correct ATA timings if
- *      neccessary.
+ *      necessary.
  */
 
 static unsigned int pacpi_qc_issue(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc)
diff --git a/drivers/ata/pata_hpt3x3.c b/drivers/ata/pata_hpt3x3.c
index c86c71639a95..727a81ce4c9f 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/pata_hpt3x3.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/pata_hpt3x3.c
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ static void hpt3x3_init_chipset(struct pci_dev *dev)
  *      @id: Entry in match table
  *
  *      Perform basic initialisation. We set the device up so we access all
- *      ports via BAR4. This is neccessary to work around errata.
+ *      ports via BAR4. This is necessary to work around errata.
  */
 
 static int hpt3x3_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
diff --git a/drivers/ata/pata_pcmcia.c b/drivers/ata/pata_pcmcia.c
index 36103531feeb..147de2fd66d2 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/pata_pcmcia.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/pata_pcmcia.c
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static unsigned int ata_data_xfer_8bit(struct ata_device *dev,
  *      @qc: command
  *
  *      Drain the FIFO and device of any stuck data following a command
- *      failing to complete. In some cases this is neccessary before a
+ *      failing to complete. In some cases this is necessary before a
  *      reset will recover the device.
  *
  */
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
index 2bf3a6ef3684..d9301e861d9f 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ extern char usermode_helper[];
 
 /* All EEs on the free list should have ID_VACANT (== 0)
  * freshly allocated EEs get !ID_VACANT (== 1)
- * so if it says "cannot dereference null pointer at adress 0x00000001",
+ * so if it says "cannot dereference null pointer at address 0x00000001",
  * it is most likely one of these :( */
 
 #define ID_IN_SYNC      (4711ULL)
@@ -1171,7 +1171,7 @@ extern int drbd_bitmap_io(struct drbd_conf *mdev, int (*io_fn)(struct drbd_conf
 /* Meta data layout
    We reserve a 128MB Block (4k aligned)
    * either at the end of the backing device
-   * or on a seperate meta data device. */
+   * or on a separate meta data device. */
 
 #define MD_RESERVED_SECT (128LU << 11)  /* 128 MB, unit sectors */
 /* The following numbers are sectors */
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.h b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.h
index f22c1bc8ec7e..16119d7056cc 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.h
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.h
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
  *
  *  It may me handed over to the local disk subsystem.
  *  It may be completed by the local disk subsystem,
- *    either sucessfully or with io-error.
+ *    either successfully or with io-error.
  *  In case it is a READ request, and it failed locally,
  *    it may be retried remotely.
  *
diff --git a/drivers/char/ChangeLog b/drivers/char/ChangeLog
deleted file mode 100644
index 56b8a2e76ab1..000000000000
--- a/drivers/char/ChangeLog
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,775 +0,0 @@
-2001-08-11  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * serial.c (get_pci_port): Deal with awkward Titan cards.
-
-1998-08-26  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * serial.c (rs_open): Correctly decrement the module in-use count
-                on errors.
-
-Thu Feb 19 14:24:08 1998  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * tty_io.c (tty_name): Remove the non-reentrant (and non-SMP safe)
-                version of tty_name, and rename the reentrant _tty_name
-                function to be tty_name.
-                (tty_open): Add a warning message stating callout devices
-                are deprecated.
-
-Mon Dec  1 08:24:15 1997  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * tty_io.c (tty_get_baud_rate): Print a warning syslog if the
-                tty->alt_speed kludge is used; this means the system is
-                using the deprecated SPD_HI ioctls.
-
-Mon Nov 24 10:37:49 1997  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * serial.c, esp.c, rocket.c: Change drivers to take advantage of
-                tty_get_baud_rate().
-        
-        * tty_io.c (tty_get_baud_rate): New function which computes the
-                correct baud rate for the tty.  More factoring out of
-                common code out of the serial driver to the high-level tty
-                functions....
-
-Sat Nov 22 07:53:36 1997  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * serial.c, esp.c, rocket.c: Add tty->driver.break() routine, and
-                allow high-level tty code to handle the break and soft
-                carrier ioctls.
-        
-        * tty_ioctl.c (n_tty_ioctl): Support TIOCGSOFTCAR and
-                TIOCSSOFTCAR, so that device drivers don't have to support
-                it.
-
-        * serial.c (autoconfig): Change 16750 test to hopefully eliminate
-                false results by people with strange 16550As being
-                detected as 16750s.  Hopefully 16750s will still be
-                detected as 16750, and other weird UARTs won't get poorly
-                autodetected.  If this doesn't work, I'll have to disable
-                the auto identification for the 16750.
-
-        * tty_io.c (tty_hangup): Now actually do the tty hangup
-                processing during the timer processing, and disable
-                interrupts while doing the hangup processing.  This avoids
-                several nasty race conditions which happened when the
-                hangup processing was done asynchronously.
-                (tty_ioctl): Do break handling in the tty driver if
-                driver's break function is supported.  
-                (tty_flip_buffer_push): New exported function which should
-                be used by drivers to push characters in the flip buffer
-                to the tty handler.  This may either be done using a task
-                queue function for better CPU efficiency, or directly for
-                low latency operation.
-
-        * serial.c (rs_set_termios): Fix bug rs_set_termios when
-                transitioning away from B0, submitted by Stanislav
-                Voronyi. 
-
-Thu Jun 19 20:05:58 1997  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * serial.c (begin_break, end_break, rs_ioctl): Applied patch
-                to support BSD ioctls to set and clear the break
-                condition explicitly.
-
-        * console.c (scrup, scrdown, insert_line, delete_line): Applied
-                fix suggested by Aaron Tiensivu to speed up block scrolls
-                up and down.
-
-        * n_tty.c (opost_block, write_chan): Added a modified "fast
-                console" patch which processes a block of text via
-                "cooking" efficiently.
-
-Wed Jun 18 15:25:50 1997  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * tty_io.c (init_dev, release_dev): Applied fix suggested by Bill
-                Hawes to prevent race conditions in the tty code.
-
-        * n_tty.c (n_tty_chars_in_buffer): Applied fix suggested by Bill
-                Hawes so that n_tty_chars_in_buffer returns the correct
-                value in the case when the tty is in cannonical mode.  (To
-                avoid a pty deadlock with telnetd.)
-
-Thu Feb 27 01:53:08 1997  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * serial.c (change_speed): Add support for the termios flag
-                CMSPAR, which allows the user to select stick parity.
-                (i.e, if PARODD is set, the parity bit is always 1; if
-                PARRODD is not set, then the parity bit is always 0).
-
-Wed Feb 26 19:03:10 1997  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * serial.c (cleanup_module): Fix memory leak when using the serial
-                driver as a module; make sure tmp_buf gets freed!
-
-Tue Feb 25 11:01:59 1997  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * serial.c (set_modem_info): Add support for setting and clearing
-                the OUT1 and OUT2 bits.  (For special case UART's, usually
-                for half-duplex.)
-                (autoconfig, change_speed): Fix TI 16750 support.
-
-Sun Feb 16 00:14:43 1997  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * tty_io.c (release_dev): Add sanity check to make sure there are
-                no waiters on tty->read_wait or tty->write_wait.
-
-        * serial.c (rs_init): Don't autoconfig a device if the I/O region
-                is already reserved.
-
-        * serial.c (serial_proc_info): Add support for /proc/serial.
-
-Thu Feb 13 00:49:10 1997  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * serial.c (receive_chars): When the UART repotrs an overrun
-                condition, it does so with a valid character.  Changed to
-                not throw away the valid character, but instead report the
-                overrun after the valid character.
-
-        * serial.c: Added new #ifdef's for some of the advanced serial
-                driver features.  A minimal driver that only supports COM
-                1/2/3/4 without sharing serial interrupts only takes 17k;
-                the full driver takes 32k.
-                
-Wed Feb 12 14:50:44 1997  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * vt.c:
-        * pty.c: 
-        * tty_ioctl.c: 
-        * serial.c: Update routines to use the new 2.1 memory access
-                routines.
-
-Wed Dec  4 07:51:52 1996  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@localhost.mit.edu>
-
-        * serial.c (change_speed): Use save_flags(); cli() and
-                restore_flags() in order to ensure we don't accidentally
-                turn on interrupts when starting up the port.
-                (startup): Move the insertion of serial structure into the
-                IRQ chain earlier into the startup processing.  Interrupts
-                should be off this whole time, but we eventually will want
-                to reduce this window.
-
-Thu Nov 21 10:05:22 1996  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@localhost.mit.edu>
-
-        * tty_ioctl.c (tty_wait_until_sent): Always check the driver
-                wait_until_ready routine, even if there are no characters
-                in the xmit buffer.  (There may be charactes in the device
-                FIFO.)
-                (n_tty_ioctl): Add new flag tty->flow_stopped which
-                indicates whether the tty is stopped due to a request by
-                the TCXONC ioctl (used by tcflow).  If so, don't let an
-                incoming XOFF character restart the tty.  The tty can only
-                be restarted by another TCXONC request.
-
-        * tty_io.c (start_tty): Don't allow the tty to be restarted if
-                tty->flow_stopped is true.
-
-        * n_tty.c (n_tty_receive_char): If tty->flow_stopped is true, and
-                IXANY is set, don't eat a character trying to restart the
-                tty.
-
-        * serial.c (startup): Remove need for MCR_noint from the
-                async_struct structure.  Only turn on DTR and RTS if the
-                baud rate is not zero.
-                (change_speed): More accurately calculate the timeout
-                value based on the word size.  Move responsibility of
-                hangup when speed becomes B0 to rs_set_termios()
-                (set_serial_info): When changing the UART type set the
-                current xmit_fifo_size as well as the permanent
-                xmit_fifo_size.
-                (rs_ioctl): Fix TCSBRK (used by tcdrain) and TCSBRKP
-                ioctls to return EINTR if interrupted by a signal.
-                (rs_set_termios): If the baud rate changes to or from B0,
-                this function is now responsible for setting or clearing
-                DTR and RTS.  DTR and RTS are only be changed on the
-                transition to or from the B0 state.
-                (rs_close): Wait for the characters to drain based on
-                info->timeout.  At low baud rates (50 bps), it may take a
-                long time for the FIFO to completely drain out!
-                (rs_wait_until_sent): Fixed timeout handling.  Now
-                releases control to the scheduler, but checks frequently
-                enough so that the function is sensitive enough to pass
-                the timing requirements of the NIST-PCTS.
-                (block_til_ready): When opening the device, don't turn on
-                DTR and RTS if the baud rate is B0.
-
-Thu Nov 14 00:06:09 1996  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * serial.c (autoconfig): Fix autoconfiguration problems;
-                info->flags wasn't getting initialized from the state
-                structure.  Put in more paranoid test for the 16750.
-
-Fri Nov  8 20:19:50 1996  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * n_tty.c (n_tty_flush_buffer): Only call driver->unthrottle() if
-                the tty was previous throttled.
-                (n_tty_set_termios, write_chan): Add changes suggested by
-                        Simon P. Allen to allow hardware cooking.
-
-        * tty_ioctl.c (set_termios): If we get a signal while waiting for
-                the tty to drain, return -EINTR.
-        
-        * serial.c (change_speed): Add support for CREAD, as required by
-                POSIX.
-
-Sat Nov  2 20:43:10 1996  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * serial.c: Wholesale changes.  Added support for the Startech
-                16650 and 16650V2 chips.  (WARNING: the new startech
-                16650A may or may not work!)  Added support for the
-                TI16750 (not yet tested).  Split async_struct into a
-                transient part (async_struct) and a permanent part
-                (serial_state) which contains the configuration
-                information for the ports.  Added new driver routines
-                wait_until_sent() and send_xchar() to help with POSIX
-                compliance.  Added support for radio clocks which waggle
-                the carrier detect line (CONFIG_HARD_PPS).
-        
-        * tty_ioctl.c (tty_wait_until_sent): Added call to new driver
-                function tty->driver.wait_until_sent(), which returns when
-                the tty's device xmit buffers are drained.  Needed for
-                full POSIX compliance.
-
-                (send_prio_char): New function, called by the ioctl's
-                TCIOFF and TCION; uses the new driver call send_xchar(),
-                which will send the XON or XOFF character at high priority
-                (and even if tty output is stopped).
-
-Wed Jun  5 18:52:04 1996  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * pty.c (pty_close): When closing a pty, make sure packet mode is
-                cleared.
-
-Sun May 26 09:33:52 1996  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * vesa_blank.c (set_vesa_blanking): Add missing verify_area() call.
-
-        * selection.c (set_selection): Add missing verify_area() call.
-
-        * tty_io.c (tty_ioctl): Add missing verify_area() calls.
-
-        * serial.c (rs_ioctl): Add missing verify_area() calls.
-                (rs_init): Allow initialization of serial driver
-                configuration from a module.
-
-        * random.c (extract_entropy): Add missing verify_area call.
-                Don't limit number of characters returned to
-                32,768. Extract entropy is now no longer a inlined
-                function.
-
-                (random_read): Check return value in case extract_entropy
-                returns an error.
-
-                (secure_tcp_sequence_number): New function which returns a
-                secure TCP sequence number.  This is needed to prevent some
-                nasty TCP hijacking attacks.
-        
-                (init_std_data): Initialize using gettimeofday() instead of
-                struct timeval xtime.
-
-                (fast_add_entropy_word, add_entropy_word): Rename the
-                inline function add_entropy_word() to
-                fast_add_entropy_word().  Make add_entropy_word() be the
-                non-inlined function which is used in non-timing critical
-                places, in order to save space.
-
-                (initialize_benchmark, begin_benchmark, end_benchmark): New
-                functions defined when RANDOM_BENCHMARK is defined.  They
-                allow us to benchmark the speed of the
-                add_timer_randomness() call.
-
-                (int_ln, rotate_left): Add two new inline functions with
-                i386 optimized asm instructions.  This speeds up the
-                critical add_entropy_word() and add_timer_randomness()
-                functions, which are called from interrupt handlers.
-
-Tue May  7 22:51:11 1996    <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * random.c (add_timer_randomness): Limit the amount randomness
-                that we estimate to 12 bits.  (An arbitrary amount).
-
-                (extract_entropy): To make it harder to analyze the hash
-                function, fold the hash function in half using XOR, and
-                use the folded result as the value to emit to the user.
-                Also, add timer randomness each pass through the
-                exact_entropy call, to increase the amount of unknown
-                values during the extraction process.
-
-                (random_ioctl): Use IOR/IOW definitions to define the
-                ioctl values used by the /dev/random driver.  Allow the
-                old ioctl values to be used for backwards compatibility
-                (for a limited amount of time).
-
-Wed Apr 24 14:02:04 1996  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * random.c (add_timer_randomness): Use 2nd derivative as well to
-                better estimate entropy.
-
-                (rand_initialize): Explicitly initialize all the pointers
-                to NULL.  (Clearing pointers using memset isn't portable.)
-                Initialize the random pool with OS-dependent data.
-
-                (random_write): Add sanity checking to the arguments to
-                random_write(), so that bad arguments won't cause a kernel
-                SEGV. 
-
-                (random_read): Update the access time of the device inode
-                when you return data to the user.
-
-                (random_ioctl): Wake up the random_wait channel when there
-                are only WAIT_INPUT_BITS available.  Add more paranoia
-                checks to make sure entropy_count doesn't go beyond the
-                bounds of (0, POOLSIZE).  Add a few missing verify_area
-                checks.  Add support for the RNDCLEARPOOL ioctl, which
-                zaps the random pool.
-
-                (add_timer_randomness): Wake up the random_wait
-                channel only when there are WAIT_INPUT_BITS available.
-
-                (random_select): Allow a random refresh daemon process to
-                select on /dev/random for writing; wake up the daemon when
-                there are less than WAIT_OUTPUT_BITS bits of randomness
-                available.
-
-Tue Apr 23 22:56:07 1996    <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * tty_io.c (init_dev): Change return code when user attempts to
-                open master pty which is already open from EAGAIN to EIO,
-                to match with BSD expectations.  EIO is more correct
-                anyway, since EAGAIN implies that retrying will be
-                successful --- which it might be.... Eventually!!
-
-        * pty.c (pty_open, pty_close): Fix wait loop so that we don't
-                busy loop while waiting for the master side to open.
-                Fix tty opening/closing logic.  TTY_SLAVE_CLOSED was
-                renamed to TTY_OTHER_CLOSED, so that the name is more
-                descriptive.  Also fixed code so that the tty flag
-                actually works correctly now....
-
-Mon Apr  1 10:22:01 1996    <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * serial.c (rs_close): Cleaned up modularization changes.
-                Remove code which forced line discipline back to N_TTY
-                this is done in the tty upper layers, and there's no
-                reason to do it here.  (Making this change also
-                removed the requirement that the serial module access
-                the internal kernel symbol "ldiscs".)
-
-        * tty_io.c (tty_init): Formally register a tty_driver entry for
-                /dev/tty (device 4, 0) and /dev/console (device 5, 0).
-                This guarantees that major device numbers 4 and 5 will be
-                reserved for the tty subsystem (as they have to be because
-                of /dev/tty and /dev/console).  Removed tty_regdev, as
-                this interface is no longer necessary.
-
-Sun Mar 17 20:42:47 GMT 1996 <ah@doc.ic.ac.uk>
-
-        * serial.c : modularisation (changes in linux/fs/device.c allow
-                kerneld to automatically load the serial module).
-
-        * Makefile, Config.in : serial modularisation adds.
-
-        * tty_io.c : tty_init_ctty used by to register "cua" driver just
-                for the /dev/tty device (5,0).  Added tty_regdev.
-        
-        * serial.c (shutdown, rs_ioctl) : when port shuts down wakeup processes
-          waiting on delta_msr_wait. The TIOCMIWAIT ioctl returns EIO
-          if no change was done since the time of call.
-
-Sat Mar 16 14:33:13 1996 <aeb@cwi.nl>
-
-        * tty_io.c (disassociate_ctty): If disassociate_ctty is called by
-                exit, do not perform an implicit vhangup on a pty.
-
-Fri Feb  9 14:15:47 1996    <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * serial.c (block_til_ready): Fixed another race condition which
-                happens if a hangup happens during the open.
-
-Wed Jan 10 10:08:00 1996    <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * serial.c (block_til_ready): Remove race condition which happened
-                if a hangup condition happened during the setup of the
-                UART, before rs_open() called block_til_ready().  This
-                caused the info->count counter to be erroneously
-                decremented.
-
-        * serial.c (startup, rs_open): Remove race condition that could
-                cause a memory leak of one page.  (Fortunately, both race
-                conditions were relatively rare in practice.)
-
-Tue Dec  5 13:21:27 1995    <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * serial.c (check_modem_status, rs_ioctl): Support the new
-                ioctl()'s TIOCGICOUNT, TIOCMIWAIT.  These allow an
-                application program to wait on a modem serial register
-                status bit change, and to find out how many changes have
-                taken place for the MSR bits.
-
-                (rs_write): Eliminate a race condition which is introduced
-                if it is necessary to wait for the semaphore.
-
-Sat Nov  4 17:14:45 1995    <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * tty_io.c (tty_init): Move registration of TTY_MAJOR and
-                TTY_AUX_MAJOR to the end, so that /proc/devices looks
-                prettier. 
-
-        * pty.c (pty_init): Use new major numbers for PTY master and slave
-                devices.  This allow us to have more than 64 pty's.  We
-                register the old pty devices for backwards compatibility.
-                Note that a system should either be using the old pty
-                devices or the new pty devices --- in general, it should
-                try to use both, since they map into the same pty table.
-                The old pty devices are strictly for backwards compatibility.
-
-Wed Oct 11 12:45:24 1995    <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * tty_io.c (disassociate_ctty): If disassociate_ctty is called by
-                exit, perform an implicit vhangup on the tty.
-
-        * pty.c (pty_close): When the master pty is closed, send a hangup
-                to the slave pty.
-                (pty_open): Use the flag TTY_SLAVE_CLOSED to test to see
-                if there are any open slave ptys, instead of using
-                tty->link->count.  The old method got confused if there
-                were processes that had hung-up file descriptors on the
-                slave tty.
-
-Tue May  2 00:53:25 1995    <tytso@rsx-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * tty_io.c (tty_set_ldisc): Wait until the output buffer is
-                drained before closing the old line discipline --- needed
-                in only one case: XON/XOFF processing.
-
-        * n_tty.c (n_tty_close): Don't bother waiting until the output
-                driver is closed; in general, the line discipline
-                shouldn't care if the hardware is finished
-                transmitting before the line discipline terminates.
-
-        * tty_io.c (release_dev): Shutdown the line discipline after
-                decrementing the tty count variable; but set the
-                TTY_CLOSING flag so that we know that this tty structure
-                isn't long for this world.
-
-        * tty_io.c (init_dev): Add sanity code to check to see if
-                TTY_CLOSING is set on a tty structure; if so, something
-                bad has happened (probably a line discipline close blocked
-                when it shouldn't have; so do a kernel printk and then
-                return an error).
-
-Wed Apr 26 10:23:44 1995  Theodore Y. Ts'o  <tytso@localhost>
-
-        * tty_io.c (release_dev): Try to shutdown the line discipline
-                *before* decrementing the tty count variable; this removes
-                a potential race condition which occurs when the line
-                discipline close blocks, and another process then tries
-                open the same serial port.
-
-        * serial.c (rs_hangup): When hanging up, flush the output buffer
-                before shutting down the UART.  Otherwise the line
-                discipline close blocks waiting for the characters to get
-                flushed, which never happens until the serial port gets reused.
-
-Wed Apr 12 08:06:16 1995  Theodore Y. Ts'o  <tytso@localhost>
-
-        * serial.c (do_serial_hangup, do_softint, check_modem_status,
-                rs_init):  Hangups are now scheduled via a separate tqueue
-                structure in the async_struct structure, tqueue_hangup.
-                This task is pushed on to the tq_schedule queue, so that
-                it is processed synchronously by the scheduler.
-
-Sat Feb 18 12:13:51 1995  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * tty_io.c (disassociate_ctty, tty_open, tty_ioctl): Clear
-                current->tty_old_pgrp field when a session leader
-                acquires a controlling tty, and after a session leader
-                has disassociated from a controlling tty.
-
-Fri Feb 17 09:34:09 1995  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * serial.c (rs_interrupt_single, rs_interrupt, rs_interrupt_multi): 
-                Change the number of passes made from 64 to be 256,
-                configurable with the #define RS_ISR_PASS_LIMIT.
-
-        * serial.c (rs_init, set_serial_info, get_serial_info, rs_close):
-                Remove support for closing_wait2.  Instead, set
-                tty->closing and rely on the line discipline to prevent
-                echo wars.
-
-        * n_tty.c (n_tty_receive_char):  IEXTEN does not need to be
-                enabled in order for IXANY to be active.
-
-                If tty->closing is set, then only process XON and XOFF
-                characters.
-
-Sun Feb 12 23:57:48 1995  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * serial.c (rs_timer): Change the interrupt poll time from 60
-                seconds to 10 seconds, configurable with the #define
-                RS_STROBE_TIME.
-
-        * serial.c (rs_interrupt_multi, startup, shutdown, rs_ioctl,
-                set_multiport_struct, get_multiport_struct): Add
-                provisions for a new type of interrupt service routine,
-                which better supports multiple serial ports on a single
-                IRQ.  
-
-Sun Feb  5 19:35:11 1995  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * tty_ioctl.c (n_tty_ioctl, set_termios, tty_wait_until_sent): 
-        * serial.c (rs_ioctl, rs_close): 
-        * cyclades.c (cy_ioctl, cy_close): 
-        * n_tty.c (n_tty_close):  Rename wait_until_sent to
-                tty_wait_until_sent, so that it's a better name to export
-                in ksyms.c.
-
-Sat Feb  4 23:36:20 1995  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * serial.c (rs_close): Added missing check for closing_wait2 being
-                ASYNC_CLOSING_WAIT_NONE.
-
-Thu Jan 26 09:02:49 1995  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * serial.c (rs_init, set_serial_info, get_serial_info,
-                rs_close): Support close_wait in the serial driver.
-                This is helpful for slow devices (like serial
-                plotters) so that their outputs don't get flushed upon
-                device close.  This has to be configurable because
-                normally we don't want ports to be hung up for long
-                periods of time during a close when they are not
-                connected to a device, or the device is powered off.
-
-                The default is to wait 30 seconds; in the case of a
-                very slow device, the close_wait timeout should be
-                lengthened.  If it is set to 0, the kernel will wait
-                forever for all of the data to be transmitted.
-
-Thu Jan 17 01:17:20 1995  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * serial.c (startup, change_speed, rs_init): Add support to detect
-                the StarTech 16650 chip.  Treat it as a 16450 for now,
-                because of its FIFO bugs.
-
-Thu Jan  5 21:21:57 1995  <dahinds@users.sourceforge.net>
-
-        * serial.c: (receive_char): Added counter to prevent infinite loop
-                when a PCMCIA serial device is ejected.
-
-Thu Dec 29 17:53:48 1994    <tytso@rsx-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * tty_io.c (check_tty_count): New procedure which checks
-                tty->count to make sure that it matches with the number of
-                open file descriptors which point at the structure.  If
-                the number doesn't match, it prints a warning message.
-
-Wed Dec 28 15:41:51 1994    <tytso@rsx-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * tty_io.c (do_tty_hangup, disassociate_ctty): At hangup time,
-                save the tty's current foreground process group in the
-                session leader's task structure.  When the session leader
-                terminates, send a SIGHUP, SIGCONT to that process group.
-                This is not required by POSIX, but it's not prohibited
-                either, and it appears to be the least intrusive way
-                to fix a problem that dialup servers have with
-                orphaned process groups caused by modem hangups.
-
-Thu Dec  8 14:52:11 1994    <tytso@rsx-11.mit.edu>
-
-        * serial.c (rs_ioctl): Don't allow most ioctl's if the serial port
-                isn't initialized.
-
-        * serial.c (rs_close): Don't clear the IER if the serial port
-                isn't initialized. 
-
-        * serial.c (block_til_ready): Don't try to block on the dialin
-                port if the serial port isn't initialized.
-
-Wed Dec  7 10:48:30 1994  Si Park (si@wimpol.demon.co.uk)
-        * tty_io.c (tty_register_driver): Fix bug when linking onto
-                the tty_drivers list. We now test that there are elements
-                already on the list before setting the back link from the
-                first element to the new driver.
-
-        * tty_io.c (tty_unregister_driver): Fix bug in unlinking the
-                specified driver from the tty_drivers list. We were not
-                setting the back link correctly. This used to result in
-                a dangling back link pointer and cause panics on the next
-                call to get_tty_driver().
-
-Tue Nov 29 10:21:09 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * tty_io.c (tty_unregister_driver): Fix bug in
-                tty_unregister_driver where the pointer to the refcount is
-                tested, instead of the refcount itself.  This caused
-                tty_unregister_driver to always return EBUSY.
-
-Sat Nov 26 11:59:24 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * tty_io.c (tty_ioctl): Add support for the new ioctl
-                TIOCTTYGSTRUCT, which allow a kernel debugging program
-                direct read access to the tty and tty_driver structures.
-
-Fri Nov 25 17:26:22 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * serial.c (rs_set_termios): Don't wake up processes blocked in
-                open when the CLOCAL flag changes, since a blocking
-                open only samples the CLOCAL flag once when it blocks,
-                and doesn't check it again.  (n.b.  FreeBSD has a
-                different behavior for blocking opens; it's not clear
-                whether Linux or FreeBSD's interpretation is correct.
-                POSIX doesn't give clear guidance on this issue, so
-                this may change in the future....)
-
-        * serial.c (block_til_ready): Use the correct termios structure to
-                check the CLOCAL flag.  If the cuaXX device is active,
-                then check the saved termios for the ttySXX device.
-                Otherwise, use the currently active termios structure.
-
-Sun Nov  6 21:05:44 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * serial.c (change_speed): Add support for direct access of
-                57,600 and 115,200 bps.
-
-Wed Nov  2 10:32:36 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * n_tty.c (n_tty_receive_room): Only allow excess characters
-                through if we are in ICANON mode *and* there are other no
-                pending lines in the buffer.  Otherwise cut and paste over
-                4k breaks.
-
-Sat Oct 29 18:17:34 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * serial.c (rs_ioctl, get_lsr_info): Added patch suggested by Arne
-                Riiber so that user mode programs can tell when the
-                transmitter shift register is empty.
-
-Thu Oct 27 23:14:29 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * tty_ioctl.c (wait_until_sent): Added debugging printk statements
-                (under the #ifdef TTY_DEBUG_WAIT_UNTIL_SENT)  
-
-        * serial.c (rs_interrupt, rs_interrupt_single, receive_chars,
-                change_speed, rs_close): rs_close now disables receiver
-                interrupts when closing the serial port.  This allows the
-                serial port to close quickly when Linux and a modem (or a
-                mouse) are engaged in an echo war; when closing the serial
-                port, we now first stop listening to incoming characters,
-                and *then* wait for the transmit buffer to drain.  
-
-                In order to make this change, the info->read_status_mask
-                is now used to control what bits of the line status
-                register are looked at in the interrupt routine in all
-                cases; previously it was only used in receive_chars to
-                select a few of the status bits.
-
-Mon Oct 24 23:36:21 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * serial.c (rs_close): Add a timeout to the transmitter flush
-                loop; this is just a sanity check in case we have flaky
-                (or non-existent-but-configured-by-the-user) hardware.
-
-Fri Oct 21 09:37:23 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * tty_io.c (tty_fasync): When asynchronous I/O is enabled, if the
-                process or process group has not be specified yet, set it
-                to be the tty's process group, or if that is not yet set,
-                to the current process's pid.
-
-Thu Oct 20 23:17:28 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * n_tty.c (n_tty_receive_room): If we are doing input
-                canonicalization, let as many characters through as
-                possible, so that the excess characters can be "beeped".
-
-Tue Oct 18 10:02:43 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * serial.c (rs_start): Removed an incorrect '!' that was
-                preventing transmit interrupts from being re-enabled in
-                rs_start().  Fortunately in most cases it would be
-                re-enabled elsewhere, but this still should be fixed
-                correctly.
-
-Sun Oct  9 23:46:03 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * tty_io.c (do_tty_hangup): If the tty driver flags
-                TTY_DRIVER_RESET_TERMIOS is set, then reset the termios
-                settings back to the driver's initial configuration.  This
-                allows the termios settings to be reset even if a process
-                has hung up file descriptors keeping a pty's termios from
-                being freed and reset.
-
-        * tty_io.c (release_dev): Fix memory leak.  The pty's other
-                termios structure should also be freed.
-
-        * serial.c (rs_close, shutdown): Change how we wait for the
-                transmitter to completely drain before shutting down the
-                serial port.  We now do it by scheduling in another
-                process instead of busy looping with the interrupts turned
-                on.  This may eliminate some race condition problems that
-                some people seem to be reporting.
-
-Sun Sep 25 14:18:14 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * tty_io.c (release_dev): When freeing a tty make sure that both
-                the tty and the o_tty (if present) aren't a process's
-                controlling tty.  (Previously, we only checked the tty.)
-
-        * serial.c (change_speed): Only enable the Modem Status
-                Interrupt for a port if CLOCAL is not set or CRTSCTS
-                is set.  If we're not checking the carrier detect and
-                CTS line, there's no point in enabling the modem
-                status interrupt.  This will save spurious interrupts
-                from slowing down systems who have terminals that
-                don't support either line.  (Of course, if you want
-                only one of CD and CTS support, you will need a
-                properly wired serial cable.)
-
-Thu Sep 22 08:32:48 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * tty_io.c (do_SAK): Return if tty is null.
-
-        * tty_io.c (_tty_name): Return "NULL tty" if the passed in tty is
-                NULL.
-
-Sat Sep 17 13:19:25 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * tty_ioctl.c (n_tty_ioctl): Fix TIOCGLCKTRMIOS and
-                TIOCSLCKTRMIOS, which were totally broken.  Remove
-                extra indirection from argument; it should be a struct
-                termios *, not a struct termios **.
-                &real_tty->termios_locked should have been
-                real_tty->termios_locked.  This caused us to be
-                reading and writing the termios_locked structure to
-                random places in kernel memory.  
-
-        * tty_io.c (release_dev): Oops!  Forgot to delete a critical kfree
-                of the locked_termios.  This leaves the locked_termios
-                structure pointed at a freed object.  
-
-Fri Sep 16 08:13:25 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * tty_io.c (tty_open): Don't check for an exclusive open until
-                after the device specific open routine has been called.
-                Otherwise, the serial device ref counting will be screwed
-                up.
-
-        * serial.c (rs_open, block_til_ready): Don't set termios structure
-                until after block_til_ready has returned successfully.
-                Modify block_til_ready to check the normal_termios
-                structure directly, so it doesn't rely on termios being
-                set before it's called.
-
-Thu Sep 15 23:34:01 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-        * serial.c (rs_close): Turn off interrupts during rs_close() to
-                prevent a race condition with the hangup code (which
-                runs during a software interrupt).
-
-        * tty_io.c (release_dev): Don't free the locked_termios structure;
-                its state must be retained across device opens.
-
-
-        * tty_io.c (tty_unregister_driver): Added function to unregister a
-                tty driver.  (For loadable device drivers.)
-
-
diff --git a/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c b/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c
index 919a28558d36..a3e10dc7cc25 100644
--- a/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c
+++ b/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ static void intel_agp_insert_sg_entries(struct agp_memory *mem,
                         j++;
                 }
         } else {
-                /* sg may merge pages, but we have to seperate
+                /* sg may merge pages, but we have to separate
                  * per-page addr for GTT */
                 unsigned int len, m;
 
diff --git a/drivers/char/applicom.c b/drivers/char/applicom.c
index fe2cb2f5db17..a7424bf7eacf 100644
--- a/drivers/char/applicom.c
+++ b/drivers/char/applicom.c
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 /* et passe en argument a acinit, mais est scrute sur le bus pour s'adapter  */
 /* au nombre de cartes presentes sur le bus. IOCL code 6 affichait V2.4.3    */
 /* F.LAFORSE 28/11/95 creation de fichiers acXX.o avec les differentes       */
-/* adresses de base des cartes, IOCTL 6 plus complet                         */
+/* addresses de base des cartes, IOCTL 6 plus complet                         */
 /* J.PAGET le 19/08/96 copie de la version V2.6 en V2.8.0 sans modification  */
 /* de code autre que le texte V2.6.1 en V2.8.0                               */
 /*****************************************************************************/
diff --git a/drivers/char/hvc_iseries.c b/drivers/char/hvc_iseries.c
index fd0242676a2a..21c54955084e 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hvc_iseries.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hvc_iseries.c
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ static void hvc_close_event(struct HvLpEvent *event)
 
         if (!hvlpevent_is_int(event)) {
                 printk(KERN_WARNING
-                        "hvc: got unexpected close acknowlegement\n");
+                        "hvc: got unexpected close acknowledgement\n");
                 return;
         }
 
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/n2-drv.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/n2-drv.c
index 9b3e09cd41f9..10f868eefaa6 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/n2-drv.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/n2-drv.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ MODULE_VERSION(DRV_MODULE_VERSION);
  *        x22 + x21 + x17 + x15 + x13 + x12 + x11 + x7 + x5 + x + 1
  *
  * The RNG_CTL_VCO value of each noise cell must be programmed
- * seperately.  This is why 4 control register values must be provided
+ * separately.  This is why 4 control register values must be provided
  * to the hypervisor.  During a write, the hypervisor writes them all,
  * one at a time, to the actual RNG_CTL register.  The first three
  * values are used to setup the desired RNG_CTL_VCO for each entropy
diff --git a/drivers/char/ip2/i2hw.h b/drivers/char/ip2/i2hw.h
index 8aa6e7ab8d5b..c0ba6c05f0cd 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ip2/i2hw.h
+++ b/drivers/char/ip2/i2hw.h
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ Loadware may be sent to the board in two ways:
 
 2) It may be hard-coded into your source by including a .h file (typically
         supplied by Computone), which declares a data array and initializes every
-        element. This acheives the same result as if an entire loadware file had 
+        element. This achieves the same result as if an entire loadware file had 
         been read into the array.
 
         This requires more data space in your program, but access to the file system
diff --git a/drivers/char/pty.c b/drivers/char/pty.c
index 385c44b3034f..5ee424817263 100644
--- a/drivers/char/pty.c
+++ b/drivers/char/pty.c
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ static void pty_set_termios(struct tty_struct *tty,
  *      @tty: tty being resized
  *      @ws: window size being set.
  *
- *      Update the termios variables and send the neccessary signals to
+ *      Update the termios variables and send the necessary signals to
  *      peform a terminal resize correctly
  */
 
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 2849713d2231..2fd3d39995d5 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1191,7 +1191,7 @@ const struct file_operations urandom_fops = {
 void generate_random_uuid(unsigned char uuid_out[16])
 {
         get_random_bytes(uuid_out, 16);
-        /* Set UUID version to 4 --- truely random generation */
+        /* Set UUID version to 4 --- truly random generation */
         uuid_out[6] = (uuid_out[6] & 0x0F) | 0x40;
         /* Set the UUID variant to DCE */
         uuid_out[8] = (uuid_out[8] & 0x3F) | 0x80;
diff --git a/drivers/char/serial167.c b/drivers/char/serial167.c
index 986aa606a6b6..1ec3d5cd748f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/serial167.c
+++ b/drivers/char/serial167.c
@@ -1989,7 +1989,7 @@ void mvme167_serial_console_setup(int cflag)
         /*
          * Attempt to set up all channels to something reasonable, and
          * bang out a INIT_CHAN command.  We should then be able to limit
-         * the ammount of fiddling we have to do in normal running.
+         * the amount of fiddling we have to do in normal running.
          */
 
         for (ch = 3; ch >= 0; ch--) {
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index dcb9083ecde0..a42c466f7092 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -2028,7 +2028,7 @@ static int tiocgwinsz(struct tty_struct *tty, struct winsize __user *arg)
  *      @rows: rows (character)
  *      @cols: cols (character)
  *
- *      Update the termios variables and send the neccessary signals to
+ *      Update the termios variables and send the necessary signals to
  *      peform a terminal resize correctly
  */
 
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index 50faa1fb0f06..bd1d1164fec5 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ static inline int resize_screen(struct vc_data *vc, int width, int height,
  *
  *      Resize a virtual console, clipping according to the actual constraints.
  *      If the caller passes a tty structure then update the termios winsize
- *      information and perform any neccessary signal handling.
+ *      information and perform any necessary signal handling.
  *
  *      Caller must hold the console semaphore. Takes the termios mutex and
  *      ctrl_lock of the tty IFF a tty is passed.
@@ -2119,8 +2119,6 @@ static int do_con_write(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *buf, int co
         uint8_t inverse;
         uint8_t width;
         u16 himask, charmask;
-        const unsigned char *orig_buf = NULL;
-        int orig_count;
 
         if (in_interrupt())
                 return count;
@@ -2142,8 +2140,6 @@ static int do_con_write(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *buf, int co
             release_console_sem();
             return 0;
         }
-        orig_buf = buf;
-        orig_count = count;
 
         himask = vc->vc_hi_font_mask;
         charmask = himask ? 0x1ff : 0xff;
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c b/drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c
index 09ad9154d86c..73e8b1713b54 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ static atomic_t hifn_dev_number;
 #define HIFN_PUBOPLEN_MOD_M     0x0000007f      /* modulus length mask */
 #define HIFN_PUBOPLEN_MOD_S     0               /* modulus length shift */
 #define HIFN_PUBOPLEN_EXP_M     0x0003ff80      /* exponent length mask */
-#define HIFN_PUBOPLEN_EXP_S     7               /* exponent lenght shift */
+#define HIFN_PUBOPLEN_EXP_S     7               /* exponent length shift */
 #define HIFN_PUBOPLEN_RED_M     0x003c0000      /* reducend length mask */
 #define HIFN_PUBOPLEN_RED_S     18              /* reducend length shift */
 
diff --git a/drivers/dma/coh901318_lli.h b/drivers/dma/coh901318_lli.h
index 7bf713b79c6b..7a5c80990e9e 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/coh901318_lli.h
+++ b/drivers/dma/coh901318_lli.h
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ struct device;
  * @pool: pool handle
  * @dev: dma device
  * @lli_nbr: number of lli:s in the pool
- * @algin: adress alignemtn of lli:s
+ * @algin: address alignemtn of lli:s
  * returns 0 on success otherwise none zero
  */
 int coh901318_pool_create(struct coh901318_pool *pool,
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c
index 71247da17da5..75bceee76044 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c
@@ -3545,7 +3545,7 @@ int nouveau_bios_parse_lvds_table(struct drm_device *dev, int pxclk, bool *dl, b
          * at which modes should be set up in the dual link style.
          *
          * Following the header, the BMP (ver 0xa) table has several records,
-         * indexed by a seperate xlat table, indexed in turn by the fp strap in
+         * indexed by a separate xlat table, indexed in turn by the fp strap in
          * EXTDEV_BOOT. Each record had a config byte, followed by 6 script
          * numbers for use by INIT_SUB which controlled panel init and power,
          * and finally a dword of ms to sleep between power off and on
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h
index 5f8d987af363..4b9aaf2a8d0f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ struct drm_nouveau_private {
         uint32_t ramro_offset;
         uint32_t ramro_size;
 
-        /* base physical adresses */
+        /* base physical addresses */
         uint64_t fb_phys;
         uint64_t fb_available_size;
         uint64_t fb_mappable_pages;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_state.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_state.c
index 3c32f840dcd2..40ab6d9c3736 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_state.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_state.c
@@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ static void radeon_cp_dispatch_clear(struct drm_device * dev,
                                         /* judging by the first tile offset needed, could possibly
                                            directly address/clear 4x4 tiles instead of 8x2 * 4x4
                                            macro tiles, though would still need clear mask for
-                                           right/bottom if truely 4x4 granularity is desired ? */
+                                           right/bottom if truly 4x4 granularity is desired ? */
                                         OUT_RING(tileoffset * 16);
                                         /* the number of tiles to clear */
                                         OUT_RING(nrtilesx + 1);
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/via/via_irq.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/via/via_irq.c
index 5935b8842e86..34079f251cd4 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/via/via_irq.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/via/via_irq.c
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ irqreturn_t via_driver_irq_handler(DRM_IRQ_ARGS)
                 cur_irq++;
         }
 
-        /* Acknowlege interrupts */
+        /* Acknowledge interrupts */
         VIA_WRITE(VIA_REG_INTERRUPT, status);
 
 
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ static __inline__ void viadrv_acknowledge_irqs(drm_via_private_t * dev_priv)
         u32 status;
 
         if (dev_priv) {
-                /* Acknowlege interrupts */
+                /* Acknowledge interrupts */
                 status = VIA_READ(VIA_REG_INTERRUPT);
                 VIA_WRITE(VIA_REG_INTERRUPT, status |
                           dev_priv->irq_pending_mask);
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-pcf.c b/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-pcf.c
index 7ce75775ec73..6b6bd06202b2 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-pcf.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-pcf.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static int pcf_init_8584 (struct i2c_algo_pcf_data *adap)
          */
         if (((temp = get_pcf(adap, 1)) & 0x7f) != (0)) {
                 DEB2(printk(KERN_ERR "i2c-algo-pcf.o: PCF detection failed -- can't select S0 (0x%02x).\n", temp));
-                return -ENXIO; /* definetly not PCF8584 */
+                return -ENXIO; /* definitely not PCF8584 */
         }
 
         /* load own address in S0, effective address is (own << 1) */
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pxa.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pxa.c
index 7647a20523a0..90ffbf6f9d4f 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pxa.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pxa.c
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
  *
  *  History:
  *    Apr 2002: Initial version [CS]
- *    Jun 2002: Properly seperated algo/adap [FB]
+ *    Jun 2002: Properly separated algo/adap [FB]
  *    Jan 2003: Fixed several bugs concerning interrupt handling [Kai-Uwe Bloem]
  *    Jan 2003: added limited signal handling [Kai-Uwe Bloem]
  *    Sep 2004: Major rework to ensure efficient bus handling [RMK]
diff --git a/drivers/ieee1394/pcilynx.c b/drivers/ieee1394/pcilynx.c
index 9555fd253865..bf47fee79808 100644
--- a/drivers/ieee1394/pcilynx.c
+++ b/drivers/ieee1394/pcilynx.c
@@ -1452,7 +1452,7 @@ static int __devinit add_card(struct pci_dev *dev,
                                 PRINT(KERN_ERR, lynx->id, "unable to read bus info block from i2c");
                         } else {
                                 PRINT(KERN_INFO, lynx->id, "got bus info block from serial eeprom");
-                                /* FIXME: probably we shoud rewrite the max_rec, max_ROM(1394a),
+                                /* FIXME: probably we should rewrite the max_rec, max_ROM(1394a),
                                  * generation(1394a) and link_spd(1394a) field and recalculate
                                  * the CRC */
 
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_qes.h b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_qes.h
index 5d28e3e98a20..90c4efa67586 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_qes.h
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_qes.h
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 
 #include "ehca_tools.h"
 
-/* virtual scatter gather entry to specify remote adresses with length */
+/* virtual scatter gather entry to specify remote addresses with length */
 struct ehca_vsgentry {
         u64 vaddr;
         u32 lkey;
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ struct ehca_wqe {
         u32 immediate_data;
         union {
                 struct {
-                        u64 remote_virtual_adress;
+                        u64 remote_virtual_address;
                         u32 rkey;
                         u32 reserved;
                         u64 atomic_1st_op_dma_len;
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_reqs.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_reqs.c
index e3ec7fdd67bd..9a3fbfca9b41 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_reqs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_reqs.c
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ static inline int ehca_write_swqe(struct ehca_qp *qp,
                 /* no break is intentional here */
         case IB_QPT_RC:
                 /* TODO: atomic not implemented */
-                wqe_p->u.nud.remote_virtual_adress =
+                wqe_p->u.nud.remote_virtual_address =
                         send_wr->wr.rdma.remote_addr;
                 wqe_p->u.nud.rkey = send_wr->wr.rdma.rkey;
 
diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/yealink.h b/drivers/input/misc/yealink.h
index 48af0be9cbdf..1e0f52397010 100644
--- a/drivers/input/misc/yealink.h
+++ b/drivers/input/misc/yealink.h
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ struct yld_ctl_packet {
  * yld_status struct.
  */
 
-/* LCD, each segment must be driven seperately.
+/* LCD, each segment must be driven separately.
  *
  * Layout:
  *
diff --git a/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c b/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
index b54aee7cd9e3..ff4d77c4de11 100644
--- a/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
+++ b/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ static bool i8042_filter(unsigned char data, unsigned char str,
         }
 
         if (i8042_platform_filter && i8042_platform_filter(data, str, serio)) {
-                dbg("Filtered out by platfrom filter\n");
+                dbg("Filtered out by platform filter\n");
                 return true;
         }
 
diff --git a/drivers/input/tablet/aiptek.c b/drivers/input/tablet/aiptek.c
index 7d005a3616d7..4be039d7dcad 100644
--- a/drivers/input/tablet/aiptek.c
+++ b/drivers/input/tablet/aiptek.c
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ static const int macroKeyEvents[] = {
 };
 
 /***********************************************************************
- * Map values to strings and back. Every map shoudl have the following
+ * Map values to strings and back. Every map should have the following
  * as its last element: { NULL, AIPTEK_INVALID_VALUE }.
  */
 #define AIPTEK_INVALID_VALUE    -1
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/mISDNisar.c b/drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/mISDNisar.c
index 09095c747110..f0bc6fa95809 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/mISDNisar.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/mISDNisar.c
@@ -1712,13 +1712,13 @@ mISDNisar_init(struct isar_hw *isar, void *hw)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mISDNisar_init);
 
-static int isar_mod_init(void)
+static int __init isar_mod_init(void)
 {
         pr_notice("mISDN: ISAR driver Rev. %s\n", ISAR_REV);
         return 0;
 }
 
-static void isar_mod_cleanup(void)
+static void __exit isar_mod_cleanup(void)
 {
         pr_notice("mISDN: ISAR module unloaded\n");
 }
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c b/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c
index adb1e8c36b46..00c60e2e0ff7 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c
@@ -1347,7 +1347,7 @@ isdn_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, uint cmd, ulong arg)
 /*
  * isdn net devices manage lots of configuration variables as linked lists.
  * Those lists must only be manipulated from user space. Some of the ioctl's
- * service routines access user space and are not atomic. Therefor, ioctl's
+ * service routines access user space and are not atomic. Therefore, ioctl's
  * manipulating the lists and ioctl's sleeping while accessing the lists
  * are serialized by means of a semaphore.
  */
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_core.c b/drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_core.c
index 43ff4d3b046e..6eac588e0a37 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_core.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_core.c
@@ -1114,7 +1114,7 @@ static struct Bprotocol DSP = {
         .create = dspcreate
 };
 
-static int dsp_init(void)
+static int __init dsp_init(void)
 {
         int err;
         int tics;
@@ -1212,7 +1212,7 @@ static int dsp_init(void)
 }
 
 
-static void dsp_cleanup(void)
+static void __exit dsp_cleanup(void)
 {
         mISDN_unregister_Bprotocol(&DSP);
 
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/l1oip_core.c b/drivers/isdn/mISDN/l1oip_core.c
index f1e8af54dff0..325b1ad7d4b8 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/l1oip_core.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/mISDN/l1oip_core.c
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ l1oip_socket_parse(struct l1oip *hc, struct sockaddr_in *sin, u8 *buf, int len)
                 printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: received frame, parsing... (%d)\n",
                         __func__, len);
 
-        /* check lenght */
+        /* check length */
         if (len < 1+1+2) {
                 printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: packet error - length %d below "
                         "4 bytes\n", __func__, len);
@@ -1509,7 +1509,7 @@ l1oip_init(void)
                         printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: interface %d is %s with %s.\n",
                             __func__, l1oip_cnt, pri ? "PRI" : "BRI",
                             bundle ? "bundled IP packet for all B-channels" :
-                            "seperate IP packets for every B-channel");
+                            "separate IP packets for every B-channel");
 
                 hc = kzalloc(sizeof(struct l1oip), GFP_ATOMIC);
                 if (!hc) {
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/sc/hardware.h b/drivers/isdn/sc/hardware.h
index 9e6d5302bf8e..627324856ead 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/sc/hardware.h
+++ b/drivers/isdn/sc/hardware.h
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
 #define BRI_CHANNELS    2               /* Number of B channels */
 #define BRI_BASEPG_VAL  0x98
 #define BRI_MAGIC       0x60000         /* Magic Number */
-#define BRI_MEMSIZE     0x10000         /* Ammount of RAM (64K) */
+#define BRI_MEMSIZE     0x10000         /* Amount of RAM (64K) */
 #define BRI_PARTNO      "72-029"
 #define BRI_FEATURES    ISDN_FEATURE_L2_HDLC | ISDN_FEATURE_L3_TRANS;
 /*
diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.h b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.h
index 52e4ce4304ee..80dda308ff74 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.h
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.h
@@ -214,14 +214,14 @@ struct dvb_tuner_ops {
         int (*get_status)(struct dvb_frontend *fe, u32 *status);
         int (*get_rf_strength)(struct dvb_frontend *fe, u16 *strength);
 
-        /** These are provided seperately from set_params in order to facilitate silicon
-         * tuners which require sophisticated tuning loops, controlling each parameter seperately. */
+        /** These are provided separately from set_params in order to facilitate silicon
+         * tuners which require sophisticated tuning loops, controlling each parameter separately. */
         int (*set_frequency)(struct dvb_frontend *fe, u32 frequency);
         int (*set_bandwidth)(struct dvb_frontend *fe, u32 bandwidth);
 
         /*
-         * These are provided seperately from set_params in order to facilitate silicon
-         * tuners which require sophisticated tuning loops, controlling each parameter seperately.
+         * These are provided separately from set_params in order to facilitate silicon
+         * tuners which require sophisticated tuning loops, controlling each parameter separately.
          */
         int (*set_state)(struct dvb_frontend *fe, enum tuner_param param, struct tuner_state *state);
         int (*get_state)(struct dvb_frontend *fe, enum tuner_param param, struct tuner_state *state);
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-cards.c b/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-cards.c
index 12279f6d9bc4..716870ae85d5 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-cards.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-cards.c
@@ -4404,7 +4404,7 @@ static void rv605_muxsel(struct bttv *btv, unsigned int input)
 /* Tibet Systems 'Progress DVR' CS16 muxsel helper [Chris Fanning]
  *
  * The CS16 (available on eBay cheap) is a PCI board with four Fusion
- * 878A chips, a PCI bridge, an Atmel microcontroller, four sync seperator
+ * 878A chips, a PCI bridge, an Atmel microcontroller, four sync separator
  * chips, ten eight input analog multiplexors, a not chip and a few
  * other components.
  *
@@ -4426,7 +4426,7 @@ static void rv605_muxsel(struct bttv *btv, unsigned int input)
  *
  * There is an ATMEL microcontroller with an 8031 core on board.  I have not
  * determined what function (if any) it provides.  With the microcontroller
- * and sync seperator chips a guess is that it might have to do with video
+ * and sync separator chips a guess is that it might have to do with video
  * switching and maybe some digital I/O.
  */
 static void tibetCS16_muxsel(struct bttv *btv, unsigned int input)
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/gspca/ov519.c b/drivers/media/video/gspca/ov519.c
index bc4ced6c013b..f36e11a0458d 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/gspca/ov519.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/gspca/ov519.c
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ static const struct v4l2_pix_format ovfx2_ov3610_mode[] = {
 /*
  * The FX2 chip does not give us a zero length read at end of frame.
  * It does, however, give a short read at the end of a frame, if
- * neccessary, rather than run two frames together.
+ * necessary, rather than run two frames together.
  *
  * By choosing the right bulk transfer size, we are guaranteed to always
  * get a short read for the last read of each frame.  Frame sizes are
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/pwc/philips.txt b/drivers/media/video/pwc/philips.txt
index f9f3584281d8..d38dd791511e 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/pwc/philips.txt
+++ b/drivers/media/video/pwc/philips.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ a lot of extra information, a FAQ, and the binary plugin 'PWCX'. This plugin
 contains decompression routines that allow you to use higher image sizes and
 framerates; in addition the webcam uses less bandwidth on the USB bus (handy
 if you want to run more than 1 camera simultaneously). These routines fall
-under a NDA, and may therefor not be distributed as source; however, its use
+under a NDA, and may therefore not be distributed as source; however, its use
 is completely optional.
 
 You can build this code either into your kernel, or as a module. I recommend
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/sn9c102/sn9c102_sensor.h b/drivers/media/video/sn9c102/sn9c102_sensor.h
index 4af7382da5c5..494957b10bac 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/sn9c102/sn9c102_sensor.h
+++ b/drivers/media/video/sn9c102/sn9c102_sensor.h
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ extern int sn9c102_write_regs(struct sn9c102_device*, const u8 valreg[][2],
 /*
    Write multiple registers with constant values. For example:
    sn9c102_write_const_regs(cam, {0x00, 0x14}, {0x60, 0x17}, {0x0f, 0x18});
-   Register adresses must be < 256.
+   Register addresses must be < 256.
 */
 #define sn9c102_write_const_regs(sn9c102_device, data...)                     \
         ({ static const u8 _valreg[][2] = {data};                             \
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/tea6420.c b/drivers/media/video/tea6420.c
index 0446524d3543..6bf6bc7dbc7f 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/tea6420.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/tea6420.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
     The tea6420 is a bus controlled audio-matrix with 5 stereo inputs,
     4 stereo outputs and gain control for each output.
-    It is cascadable, i.e. it can be found at the adresses 0x98
+    It is cascadable, i.e. it can be found at the addresses 0x98
     and 0x9a on the i2c-bus.
 
     For detailed informations download the specifications directly
diff --git a/drivers/message/i2o/iop.c b/drivers/message/i2o/iop.c
index e5ab62141503..ef5ce2676f05 100644
--- a/drivers/message/i2o/iop.c
+++ b/drivers/message/i2o/iop.c
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ static int i2o_iop_reset(struct i2o_controller *c)
                  * which is indeterminate. We need to wait until the IOP has
                  * rebooted before we can let the system talk to it. We read
                  * the inbound Free_List until a message is available. If we
-                 * can't read one in the given ammount of time, we assume the
+                 * can't read one in the given amount of time, we assume the
                  * IOP could not reboot properly.
                  */
                 osm_debug("%s: Reset in progress, waiting for reboot...\n",
diff --git a/drivers/mfd/sm501.c b/drivers/mfd/sm501.c
index dc9ea95c0561..ff0718efb0ae 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/sm501.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/sm501.c
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ unsigned long sm501_set_clock(struct device *dev,
         unsigned long clock = readl(sm->regs + SM501_CURRENT_CLOCK);
         unsigned char reg;
         unsigned int pll_reg = 0;
-        unsigned long sm501_freq; /* the actual frequency acheived */
+        unsigned long sm501_freq; /* the actual frequency achieved */
 
         struct sm501_clock to;
 
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ unsigned long sm501_set_clock(struct device *dev,
 
         switch (clksrc) {
         case SM501_CLOCK_P2XCLK:
-                /* This clock is divided in half so to achive the
+                /* This clock is divided in half so to achieve the
                  * requested frequency the value must be multiplied by
                  * 2. This clock also has an additional pre divisor */
 
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ unsigned long sm501_set_clock(struct device *dev,
                 break;
 
         case SM501_CLOCK_V2XCLK:
-                /* This clock is divided in half so to achive the
+                /* This clock is divided in half so to achieve the
                  * requested frequency the value must be multiplied by 2. */
 
                 sm501_freq = (sm501_select_clock(2 * req_freq, &to, 3) / 2);
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ unsigned long sm501_find_clock(struct device *dev,
                                unsigned long req_freq)
 {
         struct sm501_devdata *sm = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
-        unsigned long sm501_freq; /* the frequency achiveable by the 501 */
+        unsigned long sm501_freq; /* the frequency achieveable by the 501 */
         struct sm501_clock to;
 
         switch (clksrc) {
diff --git a/drivers/mmc/card/sdio_uart.c b/drivers/mmc/card/sdio_uart.c
index 3fab78ba8952..723e50894db9 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/card/sdio_uart.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/card/sdio_uart.c
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ static int uart_carrier_raised(struct tty_port *tport)
         struct sdio_uart_port *port =
                         container_of(tport, struct sdio_uart_port, port);
         unsigned int ret = sdio_uart_claim_func(port);
-        if (ret)        /* Missing hardware shoudn't block for carrier */
+        if (ret)        /* Missing hardware shouldn't block for carrier */
                 return 1;
         ret = sdio_uart_get_mctrl(port);
         sdio_uart_release_func(port);
diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c
index 60a2b69e54f5..16cc91c827c9 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *  This is a driver for the SDHC controller found in Freescale MX2/MX3
  *  SoCs. It is basically the same hardware as found on MX1 (imxmmc.c).
  *  Unlike the hardware found on MX1, this hardware just works and does
- *  not need all the quirks found in imxmmc.c, hence the seperate driver.
+ *  not need all the quirks found in imxmmc.c, hence the separate driver.
  *
  *  Copyright (C) 2008 Sascha Hauer, Pengutronix <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
  *  Copyright (C) 2006 Pavel Pisa, PiKRON <ppisa@pikron.com>
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_util.c b/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_util.c
index ca584d0380b4..ca584d0380b4 100755..100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_util.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_util.c
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/chips/jedec_probe.c b/drivers/mtd/chips/jedec_probe.c
index 1bec5e1ce6ac..8db1148dfa47 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/chips/jedec_probe.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/chips/jedec_probe.c
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ struct unlock_addr {
  * exists, but is for MTD_UADDR_NOT_SUPPORTED - and, therefore,
  * should not be used.  The  problem is that structures with
  * initializers have extra fields initialized to 0.  It is _very_
- * desireable to have the unlock address entries for unsupported
+ * desirable to have the unlock address entries for unsupported
  * data widths automatically initialized - that means that
  * MTD_UADDR_NOT_SUPPORTED must be 0 and the first entry here
  * must go unused.
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/inftlcore.c b/drivers/mtd/inftlcore.c
index 8aca5523a337..8aca5523a337 100755..100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/inftlcore.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/inftlcore.c
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/plat-ram.c b/drivers/mtd/maps/plat-ram.c
index dafb91944e70..76a76be5a7bd 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/maps/plat-ram.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/plat-ram.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *      http://www.simtec.co.uk/products/SWLINUX/
  *      Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk>
  *
- * Generic platfrom device based RAM map
+ * Generic platform device based RAM map
  *
  * 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/drivers/mtd/nand/bcm_umi_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/bcm_umi_nand.c
index 087bcd745bb7..7d1cca7a31a9 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/bcm_umi_nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/bcm_umi_nand.c
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ static int __devinit bcm_umi_nand_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
         if (!r)
                 return -ENXIO;
 
-        /* map physical adress */
+        /* map physical address */
         bcm_umi_io_base = ioremap(r->start, r->end - r->start + 1);
 
         if (!bcm_umi_io_base) {
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ static int bcm_umi_nand_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
         /* Release resources, unregister device */
         nand_release(board_mtd);
 
-        /* unmap physical adress */
+        /* unmap physical address */
         iounmap(bcm_umi_io_base);
 
         /* Free the MTD device structure */
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c
index 45dec5770da0..b2900d8406d3 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ static void mxc_do_addr_cycle(struct mtd_info *mtd, int column, int page_addr)
                  * MXC NANDFC can only perform full page+spare or
                  * spare-only read/write.  When the upper layers
                  * layers perform a read/write buf operation,
-                 * we will used the saved column adress to index into
+                 * we will used the saved column address to index into
                  * the full page.
                  */
                 send_addr(host, 0, page_addr == -1);
diff --git a/drivers/net/atlx/atl2.h b/drivers/net/atlx/atl2.h
index d918bbe621ea..927e4de6474d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/atlx/atl2.h
+++ b/drivers/net/atlx/atl2.h
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ struct atl2_hw {
 struct atl2_ring_header {
     /* pointer to the descriptor ring memory */
     void *desc;
-    /* physical adress of the descriptor ring */
+    /* physical address of the descriptor ring */
     dma_addr_t dma;
     /* length of descriptor ring in bytes */
     unsigned int size;
diff --git a/drivers/net/chelsio/sge.c b/drivers/net/chelsio/sge.c
index 71384114a4ed..55d99ca82f8a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/chelsio/sge.c
+++ b/drivers/net/chelsio/sge.c
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ static void restart_sched(unsigned long);
  *
  * Interrupts are handled by a single CPU and it is likely that on a MP system
  * the application is migrated to another CPU. In that scenario, we try to
- * seperate the RX(in irq context) and TX state in order to decrease memory
+ * separate the RX(in irq context) and TX state in order to decrease memory
  * contention.
  */
 struct sge {
diff --git a/drivers/net/cs89x0.c b/drivers/net/cs89x0.c
index 14624019ce71..b0208e474f7e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/cs89x0.c
+++ b/drivers/net/cs89x0.c
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ cs89x0_probe1(struct net_device *dev, int ioaddr, int modular)
         }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SH_HICOSH4
-        /* truely reset the chip */
+        /* truly reset the chip */
         writeword(ioaddr, ADD_PORT, 0x0114);
         writeword(ioaddr, DATA_PORT, 0x0040);
 #endif
diff --git a/drivers/net/cxgb3/sge.c b/drivers/net/cxgb3/sge.c
index 78e265b484b6..67e61b2a8c42 100644
--- a/drivers/net/cxgb3/sge.c
+++ b/drivers/net/cxgb3/sge.c
@@ -197,13 +197,13 @@ static inline void refill_rspq(struct adapter *adapter,
 /**
  *      need_skb_unmap - does the platform need unmapping of sk_buffs?
  *
- *      Returns true if the platfrom needs sk_buff unmapping.  The compiler
+ *      Returns true if the platform needs sk_buff unmapping.  The compiler
  *      optimizes away unecessary code if this returns true.
  */
 static inline int need_skb_unmap(void)
 {
         /*
-         * This structure is used to tell if the platfrom needs buffer
+         * This structure is used to tell if the platform needs buffer
          * unmapping by checking if DECLARE_PCI_UNMAP_ADDR defines anything.
          */
         struct dummy {
diff --git a/drivers/net/davinci_emac.c b/drivers/net/davinci_emac.c
index 1ac9440eb3fb..13f9869927e3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/davinci_emac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/davinci_emac.c
@@ -2658,7 +2658,7 @@ static int __devinit davinci_emac_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
         pdata = pdev->dev.platform_data;
         if (!pdata) {
-                printk(KERN_ERR "DaVinci EMAC: No platfrom data\n");
+                printk(KERN_ERR "DaVinci EMAC: No platform data\n");
                 return -ENODEV;
         }
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000e/82571.c b/drivers/net/e1000e/82571.c
index 3c95acb3a87d..712ccc66ba25 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000e/82571.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/82571.c
@@ -1346,7 +1346,7 @@ static s32 e1000_setup_fiber_serdes_link_82571(struct e1000_hw *hw)
  *
  *  1) down
  *  2) autoneg_progress
- *  3) autoneg_complete (the link sucessfully autonegotiated)
+ *  3) autoneg_complete (the link successfully autonegotiated)
  *  4) forced_up (the link has been forced up, it did not autonegotiate)
  *
  **/
diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000e/lib.c b/drivers/net/e1000e/lib.c
index 2425ed11d5cc..a8b2c0de27c4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000e/lib.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/lib.c
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ s32 e1000e_check_for_serdes_link(struct e1000_hw *hw)
                                 if (!(rxcw & E1000_RXCW_IV)) {
                                         mac->serdes_has_link = true;
                                         e_dbg("SERDES: Link up - autoneg "
-                                           "completed sucessfully.\n");
+                                           "completed successfully.\n");
                                 } else {
                                         mac->serdes_has_link = false;
                                         e_dbg("SERDES: Link down - invalid"
diff --git a/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c
index 583a21c1def3..0ed25f059a00 100644
--- a/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ static void igb_set_interrupt_capability(struct igb_adapter *adapter)
         /* start with one vector for every rx queue */
         numvecs = adapter->num_rx_queues;
 
-        /* if tx handler is seperate add 1 for every tx queue */
+        /* if tx handler is separate add 1 for every tx queue */
         if (!(adapter->flags & IGB_FLAG_QUEUE_PAIRS))
                 numvecs += adapter->num_tx_queues;
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c b/drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c
index c412e8026173..1dcdce0631aa 100644
--- a/drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c
+++ b/drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ static int sa1100_irda_resume(struct platform_device *pdev)
                  * If we missed a speed change, initialise at the new speed
                  * directly.  It is debatable whether this is actually
                  * required, but in the interests of continuing from where
-                 * we left off it is desireable.  The converse argument is
+                 * we left off it is desirable.  The converse argument is
                  * that we should re-negotiate at 9600 baud again.
                  */
                 if (si->newspeed) {
diff --git a/drivers/net/ks8851.c b/drivers/net/ks8851.c
index b5219cce12ed..0573e0bb4444 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ks8851.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ks8851.c
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ static irqreturn_t ks8851_irq(int irq, void *pw)
  * @buff: The buffer address
  * @len: The length of the data to read
  *
- * Issue an RXQ FIFO read command and read the @len ammount of data from
+ * Issue an RXQ FIFO read command and read the @len amount of data from
  * the FIFO into the buffer specified by @buff.
  */
 static void ks8851_rdfifo(struct ks8851_net *ks, u8 *buff, unsigned len)
diff --git a/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
index 05b8bde9980d..7dbff87480dc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ static int ql_set_wol(struct net_device *ndev, struct ethtool_wolinfo *wol)
                 u32 wol = 0;
                 status = ql_mb_wol_mode(qdev, wol);
                 netif_err(qdev, drv, qdev->ndev, "WOL %s (wol code 0x%x)\n",
-                          status == 0 ? "cleared sucessfully" : "clear failed",
+                          status == 0 ? "cleared successfully" : "clear failed",
                           wol);
         }
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c b/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
index c26ec5d740f6..fd34f266c0a8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
@@ -3855,7 +3855,7 @@ int ql_wol(struct ql_adapter *qdev)
                 status = ql_mb_wol_mode(qdev, wol);
                 netif_err(qdev, drv, qdev->ndev,
                           "WOL %s (wol code 0x%x) on %s\n",
-                          (status == 0) ? "Sucessfully set" : "Failed",
+                          (status == 0) ? "Successfully set" : "Failed",
                           wol, qdev->ndev->name);
         }
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/sfc/regs.h b/drivers/net/sfc/regs.h
index 89d606fe9248..18a3be428348 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sfc/regs.h
+++ b/drivers/net/sfc/regs.h
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
 #define FRF_AA_INT_ACK_KER_FIELD_LBN 0
 #define FRF_AA_INT_ACK_KER_FIELD_WIDTH 32
 
-/* INT_ISR0_REG: Function 0 Interrupt Acknowlege Status register */
+/* INT_ISR0_REG: Function 0 Interrupt Acknowledge Status register */
 #define FR_BZ_INT_ISR0 0x00000090
 #define FRF_BZ_INT_ISR_REG_LBN 0
 #define FRF_BZ_INT_ISR_REG_WIDTH 64
diff --git a/drivers/net/skfp/ess.c b/drivers/net/skfp/ess.c
index a85efcfd9d0e..e8387d25f24a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/skfp/ess.c
+++ b/drivers/net/skfp/ess.c
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ static void ess_send_alc_req(struct s_smc *smc)
 
         /*
          * send never allocation request where the requested payload and
-         * overhead is zero or deallocate bandwidht when no bandwidth is
+         * overhead is zero or deallocate bandwidth when no bandwidth is
          * parsed
          */
         if (!smc->mib.fddiESSPayload) {
diff --git a/drivers/net/smsc9420.c b/drivers/net/smsc9420.c
index 30110a11d737..34fa10d8ad40 100644
--- a/drivers/net/smsc9420.c
+++ b/drivers/net/smsc9420.c
@@ -1347,7 +1347,7 @@ static int smsc9420_open(struct net_device *dev)
 
         netif_carrier_off(dev);
 
-        /* disable, mask and acknowlege all interrupts */
+        /* disable, mask and acknowledge all interrupts */
         spin_lock_irqsave(&pd->int_lock, flags);
         int_cfg = smsc9420_reg_read(pd, INT_CFG) & (~INT_CFG_IRQ_EN_);
         smsc9420_reg_write(pd, INT_CFG, int_cfg);
diff --git a/drivers/net/spider_net.c b/drivers/net/spider_net.c
index 2f8a8c32021e..5ba9d989f8fc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/spider_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/spider_net.c
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ spider_net_prepare_rx_descr(struct spider_net_card *card,
  * spider_net_enable_rxchtails - sets RX dmac chain tail addresses
  * @card: card structure
  *
- * spider_net_enable_rxchtails sets the RX DMAC chain tail adresses in the
+ * spider_net_enable_rxchtails sets the RX DMAC chain tail addresses in the
  * chip by writing to the appropriate register. DMA is enabled in
  * spider_net_enable_rxdmac.
  */
@@ -1820,7 +1820,7 @@ spider_net_enable_card(struct spider_net_card *card)
 
         spider_net_write_reg(card, SPIDER_NET_ECMODE, SPIDER_NET_ECMODE_VALUE);
 
-        /* set chain tail adress for RX chains and
+        /* set chain tail address for RX chains and
          * enable DMA */
         spider_net_enable_rxchtails(card);
         spider_net_enable_rxdmac(card);
diff --git a/drivers/net/sungem.c b/drivers/net/sungem.c
index 4344017bfaef..70196bc5fe61 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sungem.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sungem.c
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ static int gem_rx(struct gem *gp, int work_to_do)
                         break;
 
                 /* When writing back RX descriptor, GEM writes status
-                 * then buffer address, possibly in seperate transactions.
+                 * then buffer address, possibly in separate transactions.
                  * If we don't wait for the chip to write both, we could
                  * post a new buffer to this descriptor then have GEM spam
                  * on the buffer address.  We sync on the RX completion
diff --git a/drivers/net/tehuti.c b/drivers/net/tehuti.c
index 0c9780217c87..f5493092521a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tehuti.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tehuti.c
@@ -1851,7 +1851,7 @@ static void bdx_tx_push_desc(struct bdx_priv *priv, void *data, int size)
  * @data - desc's data
  * @size - desc's size
  *
- * NOTE: this func does check for available space and, if neccessary, waits for
+ * NOTE: this func does check for available space and, if necessary, waits for
  *   NIC to read existing data before writing new one.
  */
 static void bdx_tx_push_desc_safe(struct bdx_priv *priv, void *data, int size)
diff --git a/drivers/net/tokenring/tms380tr.c b/drivers/net/tokenring/tms380tr.c
index 21a01753312a..ee71bcfb3753 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tokenring/tms380tr.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tokenring/tms380tr.c
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t tms380tr_hardware_send_packet(struct sk_buff *skb,
  * NOTE: This function should be used whenever the status of any TPL must be
  * modified by the driver, because the compiler may otherwise change the
  * order of instructions such that writing the TPL status may be executed at
- * an undesireable time. When this function is used, the status is always
+ * an undesirable time. When this function is used, the status is always
  * written when the function is called.
  */
 static void tms380tr_write_tpl_status(TPL *tpl, unsigned int Status)
@@ -2264,7 +2264,7 @@ static void tms380tr_rcv_status_irq(struct net_device *dev)
  * This function should be used whenever the status of any RPL must be
  * modified by the driver, because the compiler may otherwise change the
  * order of instructions such that writing the RPL status may be executed
- * at an undesireable time. When this function is used, the status is
+ * at an undesirable time. When this function is used, the status is
  * always written when the function is called.
  */
 static void tms380tr_write_rpl_status(RPL *rpl, unsigned int Status)
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index ce1efa4c0b0d..96c39bddc78c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -1437,7 +1437,7 @@ static int tun_chr_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 
                 __tun_detach(tun);
 
-                /* If desireable, unregister the netdevice. */
+                /* If desirable, unregister the netdevice. */
                 if (!(tun->flags & TUN_PERSIST)) {
                         rtnl_lock();
                         if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED)
diff --git a/drivers/net/typhoon.c b/drivers/net/typhoon.c
index e3ddcb8f29df..2fbf15235c05 100644
--- a/drivers/net/typhoon.c
+++ b/drivers/net/typhoon.c
@@ -2096,7 +2096,7 @@ typhoon_tx_timeout(struct net_device *dev)
 
         if(typhoon_reset(tp->ioaddr, WaitNoSleep) < 0) {
                 netdev_warn(dev, "could not reset in tx timeout\n");
-                goto truely_dead;
+                goto truly_dead;
         }
 
         /* If we ever start using the Hi ring, it will need cleaning too */
@@ -2105,13 +2105,13 @@ typhoon_tx_timeout(struct net_device *dev)
 
         if(typhoon_start_runtime(tp) < 0) {
                 netdev_err(dev, "could not start runtime in tx timeout\n");
-                goto truely_dead;
+                goto truly_dead;
         }
 
         netif_wake_queue(dev);
         return;
 
-truely_dead:
+truly_dead:
         /* Reset the hardware, and turn off carrier to avoid more timeouts */
         typhoon_reset(tp->ioaddr, NoWait);
         netif_carrier_off(dev);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ucc_geth.c b/drivers/net/ucc_geth.c
index 23a97518bc1f..1b0aef37e495 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ucc_geth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ucc_geth.c
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ static void hw_add_addr_in_hash(struct ucc_geth_private *ugeth,
             ucc_fast_get_qe_cr_subblock(ugeth->ug_info->uf_info.ucc_num);
 
         /* Ethernet frames are defined in Little Endian mode,
-        therefor to insert */
+        therefore to insert */
         /* the address to the hash (Big Endian mode), we reverse the bytes.*/
 
         set_mac_addr(&p_82xx_addr_filt->taddr.h, p_enet_addr);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c b/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c
index b36bf96eb502..f0bd70fb650c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c
@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ static ssize_t cosa_read(struct file *file,
         cosa_enable_rx(chan);
         spin_lock_irqsave(&cosa->lock, flags);
         add_wait_queue(&chan->rxwaitq, &wait);
-        while(!chan->rx_status) {
+        while (!chan->rx_status) {
                 current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
                 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cosa->lock, flags);
                 schedule();
@@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ static ssize_t cosa_write(struct file *file,
 
         spin_lock_irqsave(&cosa->lock, flags);
         add_wait_queue(&chan->txwaitq, &wait);
-        while(!chan->tx_status) {
+        while (!chan->tx_status) {
                 current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
                 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cosa->lock, flags);
                 schedule();
@@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@ static int cosa_ioctl_common(struct cosa_data *cosa,
         struct channel_data *channel, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 {
         void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg;
-        switch(cmd) {
+        switch (cmd) {
         case COSAIORSET:        /* Reset the device */
                 if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
                         return -EACCES;
@@ -1704,7 +1704,7 @@ static inline void tx_interrupt(struct cosa_data *cosa, int status)
                         spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cosa->lock, flags);
                         return;
                 }
-                while(1) {
+                while (1) {
                         cosa->txchan++;
                         i++;
                         if (cosa->txchan >= cosa->nchannels)
@@ -2010,7 +2010,7 @@ again:
 static void debug_status_in(struct cosa_data *cosa, int status)
 {
         char *s;
-        switch(status & SR_CMD_FROM_SRP_MASK) {
+        switch (status & SR_CMD_FROM_SRP_MASK) {
         case SR_UP_REQUEST:
                 s = "RX_REQ";
                 break;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c
index f1bff98acd1f..1ceccf1ca6c7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ static __be16 cisco_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
             data->address != CISCO_UNICAST)
                 return cpu_to_be16(ETH_P_HDLC);
 
-        switch(data->protocol) {
+        switch (data->protocol) {
         case cpu_to_be16(ETH_P_IP):
         case cpu_to_be16(ETH_P_IPX):
         case cpu_to_be16(ETH_P_IPV6):
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ static int cisco_rx(struct sk_buff *skb)
                 cisco_data = (struct cisco_packet*)(skb->data + sizeof
                                                     (struct hdlc_header));
 
-                switch(ntohl (cisco_data->type)) {
+                switch (ntohl (cisco_data->type)) {
                 case CISCO_ADDR_REQ: /* Stolen from syncppp.c :-) */
                         in_dev = dev->ip_ptr;
                         addr = 0;
@@ -245,8 +245,8 @@ static int cisco_rx(struct sk_buff *skb)
 
                         dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
                         return NET_RX_SUCCESS;
-                } /* switch(keepalive type) */
-        } /* switch(protocol) */
+                } /* switch (keepalive type) */
+        } /* switch (protocol) */
 
         printk(KERN_INFO "%s: Unsupported protocol %x\n", dev->name,
                ntohs(data->protocol));
diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_x25.c b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_x25.c
index aa9248f8eb1a..6e1ca256effd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_x25.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_x25.c
@@ -202,10 +202,10 @@ static int x25_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr)
                 return 0; /* return protocol only, no settable parameters */
 
         case IF_PROTO_X25:
-                if(!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
+                if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
                         return -EPERM;
 
-                if(dev->flags & IFF_UP)
+                if (dev->flags & IFF_UP)
                         return -EBUSY;
 
                 result=hdlc->attach(dev, ENCODING_NRZ,PARITY_CRC16_PR1_CCITT);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/fw.c b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/fw.c
index e803a7dc6502..25c24f0368d8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/fw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/fw.c
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ ssize_t i2400m_bm_cmd(struct i2400m *i2400m,
                 goto error_wait_for_ack;
         }
         rx_bytes = result;
-        /* verify the ack and read more if neccessary [result is the
+        /* verify the ack and read more if necessary [result is the
          * final amount of bytes we get in the ack]  */
         result = __i2400m_bm_ack_verify(i2400m, opcode, ack, ack_size, flags);
         if (result < 0)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/i2400m.h b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/i2400m.h
index 04df9bbe340f..820b128705ec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/i2400m.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/i2400m.h
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ enum i2400m_bm_cmd_flags {
  * @I2400M_BRI_NO_REBOOT: Do not reboot the device and proceed
  *     directly to wait for a reboot barker from the device.
  * @I2400M_BRI_MAC_REINIT: We need to reinitialize the boot
- *     rom after reading the MAC adress. This is quite a dirty hack,
+ *     rom after reading the MAC address. This is quite a dirty hack,
  *     if you ask me -- the device requires the bootrom to be
  *     intialized after reading the MAC address.
  */
diff --git a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/sdio.c b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/sdio.c
index 76a50ac02ebb..14f876b1358b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/sdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/sdio.c
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ error_kzalloc:
  *
  * The device will be fully reset internally, but won't be
  * disconnected from the bus (so no reenumeration will
- * happen). Firmware upload will be neccessary.
+ * happen). Firmware upload will be necessary.
  *
  * The device will send a reboot barker that will trigger the driver
  * to reinitialize the state via __i2400m_dev_reset_handle.
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ error_kzalloc:
  *
  * The device will be fully reset internally, disconnected from the
  * bus an a reenumeration will happen. Firmware upload will be
- * neccessary. Thus, we don't do any locking or struct
+ * necessary. Thus, we don't do any locking or struct
  * reinitialization, as we are going to be fully disconnected and
  * reenumerated.
  *
diff --git a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb.c b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb.c
index 98f4f8c5fb68..99f04c475898 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb.c
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ error_kzalloc:
  *
  * The device will be fully reset internally, but won't be
  * disconnected from the USB bus (so no reenumeration will
- * happen). Firmware upload will be neccessary.
+ * happen). Firmware upload will be necessary.
  *
  * The device will send a reboot barker in the notification endpoint
  * that will trigger the driver to reinitialize the state
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ error_kzalloc:
  *
  * The device will be fully reset internally, disconnected from the
  * USB bus an a reenumeration will happen. Firmware upload will be
- * neccessary. Thus, we don't do any locking or struct
+ * necessary. Thus, we don't do any locking or struct
  * reinitialization, as we are going to be fully disconnected and
  * reenumerated.
  *
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/main.c
index a6452af9c6c5..08dc42da0f63 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/main.c
@@ -2512,7 +2512,7 @@ void *ar9170_alloc(size_t priv_size)
         /*
          * this buffer is used for rx stream reconstruction.
          * Under heavy load this device (or the transport layer?)
-         * tends to split the streams into seperate rx descriptors.
+         * tends to split the streams into separate rx descriptors.
          */
 
         skb = __dev_alloc_skb(AR9170_MAX_RX_BUFFER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/lmac.h b/drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/lmac.h
index a3a79b5e2898..a855a99e49b8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/lmac.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/lmac.h
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ struct iwm_ct_kill_cfg_cmd {
 
 /* Power Management */
 #define POWER_TABLE_CMD                 0x77
-#define SAVE_RESTORE_ADRESS_CMD         0x78
+#define SAVE_RESTORE_ADDRESS_CMD                0x78
 #define REPLY_WATERMARK_CMD             0x79
 #define PM_DEBUG_STATISTIC_NOTIFIC      0x7B
 #define PD_FLUSH_N_NOTIFICATION         0x7C
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c
index ee34c137e7cd..9b04964deced 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ static int rt2500usb_config_key(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
 
                 /*
                  * The encryption key doesn't fit within the CSR cache,
-                 * this means we should allocate it seperately and use
+                 * this means we should allocate it separately and use
                  * rt2x00usb_vendor_request() to send the key to the hardware.
                  */
                 reg = KEY_ENTRY(key->hw_key_idx);
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ static int rt2500usb_config_key(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
                 /*
                  * The driver does not support the IV/EIV generation
                  * in hardware. However it demands the data to be provided
-                 * both seperately as well as inside the frame.
+                 * both separately as well as inside the frame.
                  * We already provided the CONFIG_CRYPTO_COPY_IV to rt2x00lib
                  * to ensure rt2x00lib will not strip the data from the
                  * frame after the copy, now we must tell mac80211
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c
index 5e4ee2023fcf..d27d7d5d850c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static int rt2800usb_check_firmware(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
          * There are 2 variations of the rt2870 firmware.
          * a) size: 4kb
          * b) size: 8kb
-         * Note that (b) contains 2 seperate firmware blobs of 4k
+         * Note that (b) contains 2 separate firmware blobs of 4k
          * within the file. The first blob is the same firmware as (a),
          * but the second blob is for the additional chipsets.
          */
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ static int rt2800usb_check_firmware(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
 
         /*
          * 8kb firmware files must be checked as if it were
-         * 2 seperate firmware files.
+         * 2 separate firmware files.
          */
         while (offset < len) {
                 if (!rt2800usb_check_crc(data + offset, 4096))
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00debug.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00debug.c
index 70c04c282efc..28a1c46ec4eb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00debug.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00debug.c
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ struct rt2x00debug_intf {
 
         /*
          * HW crypto statistics.
-         * All statistics are stored seperately per cipher type.
+         * All statistics are stored separately per cipher type.
          */
         struct rt2x00debug_crypto crypto_stats[CIPHER_MAX];
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
index b93731b79903..dd5ab8fe2321 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ void rt2x00lib_rxdone(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
         /*
          * Hardware might have stripped the IV/EIV/ICV data,
          * in that case it is possible that the data was
-         * provided seperately (through hardware descriptor)
+         * provided separately (through hardware descriptor)
          * in which case we should reinsert the data into the frame.
          */
         if ((rxdesc.dev_flags & RXDONE_CRYPTO_IV) &&
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c
index 0b4801a14601..5b6b789cad3d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ int rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame(struct data_queue *queue, struct sk_buff *skb,
         /*
          * When hardware encryption is supported, and this frame
          * is to be encrypted, we should strip the IV/EIV data from
-         * the frame so we can provide it to the driver seperately.
+         * the frame so we can provide it to the driver separately.
          */
         if (test_bit(ENTRY_TXD_ENCRYPT, &txdesc.flags) &&
             !test_bit(ENTRY_TXD_ENCRYPT_IV, &txdesc.flags)) {
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
index e2da928dd9f0..177472742172 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ static int rt61pci_config_pairwise_key(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
                  * The driver does not support the IV/EIV generation
                  * in hardware. However it doesn't support the IV/EIV
                  * inside the ieee80211 frame either, but requires it
-                 * to be provided seperately for the descriptor.
+                 * to be provided separately for the descriptor.
                  * rt2x00lib will cut the IV/EIV data out of all frames
                  * given to us by mac80211, but we must tell mac80211
                  * to generate the IV/EIV data.
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c
index f39a8ed17841..e77aec8d0a84 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ static int rt73usb_config_shared_key(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
                  * The driver does not support the IV/EIV generation
                  * in hardware. However it doesn't support the IV/EIV
                  * inside the ieee80211 frame either, but requires it
-                 * to be provided seperately for the descriptor.
+                 * to be provided separately for the descriptor.
                  * rt2x00lib will cut the IV/EIV data out of all frames
                  * given to us by mac80211, but we must tell mac80211
                  * to generate the IV/EIV data.
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ static int rt73usb_config_pairwise_key(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
                  * The driver does not support the IV/EIV generation
                  * in hardware. However it doesn't support the IV/EIV
                  * inside the ieee80211 frame either, but requires it
-                 * to be provided seperately for the descriptor.
+                 * to be provided separately for the descriptor.
                  * rt2x00lib will cut the IV/EIV data out of all frames
                  * given to us by mac80211, but we must tell mac80211
                  * to generate the IV/EIV data.
@@ -1661,7 +1661,7 @@ static void rt73usb_fill_rxdone(struct queue_entry *entry,
 
                 /*
                  * Hardware has stripped IV/EIV data from 802.11 frame during
-                 * decryption. It has provided the data seperately but rt2x00lib
+                 * decryption. It has provided the data separately but rt2x00lib
                  * should decide if it should be reinserted.
                  */
                 rxdesc->flags |= RX_FLAG_IV_STRIPPED;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c
index 2d555cc30508..a22a19203120 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ static void zd_mac_tx_status(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb,
  * zd_mac_tx_failed - callback for failed frames
  * @dev: the mac80211 wireless device
  *
- * This function is called if a frame couldn't be successfully be
+ * This function is called if a frame couldn't be successfully
  * transferred. The first frame from the tx queue, will be selected and
  * reported as error to the upper layers.
  */
diff --git a/drivers/parport/ChangeLog b/drivers/parport/ChangeLog
deleted file mode 100644
index 8565bbbeb6ec..000000000000
--- a/drivers/parport/ChangeLog
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,583 +0,0 @@
-2001-10-11  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-        * parport_pc.c, parport_serial.c: Support for NetMos cards.
-        + Patch originally from Michael Reinelt <reinelt@eunet.at>.
-
-2002-04-25  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_serial.c, parport_pc.c: Move some SIIG cards around.
-        Patch from Andrey Panin.
-
-2002-01-20  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_compat_write_block_pio,
-        parport_pc_ecp_write_block_pio, parport_pc_ecp_read_block_pio):
-        Use the default implementations if the caller wants to use
-        O_NONBLOCK.
-
-2002-02-25  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c: Make sure that priv->ctr_writable includes IntEn
-        even if IRQ is given as a parameter.
-
-2002-01-21  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * daisy.c: Apply patch from Max Vorobiev to make parport_daisy_select
-        work for ECP/EPP modes.
-
-2002-01-13  Niels Kristian Bech Jensen  <nkbj@image.dk>
-
-        * parport_pc.c: Change some occurrences of frob_set_mode to
-        ECR_WRITE.  This fixes PLIP.
-
-2002-01-04  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * share.c (parport_claim_or_block): Sleep interruptibly to prevent
-        a possible deadlock.
-
-2001-12-07  Damian Gruszka  <damian.gruszka@VisionSystems.de>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (ECR_WRITE): Define.  If there are forbidden bits
-        in the ECR register for some chips, this will be a useful place to
-        put that knowledge.
-        (change_mode): Use ECR_WRITE.
-        (parport_pc_restore_state): Likewise.
-        (parport_ECPPS2_supported): Likewise.
-        (parport_ECPEPP_supported): Likewise.
-        (irq_probe_EPP): Likewise.
-        (programmable_irq_support): Likewise.
-        (programmable_dma_support): Likewise.
-        (parport_pc_probe_port): Likewise.
-
-        (frob_set_mode): New function.  Set the mode bits of the ECR.
-        (get_fifo_residue): Use frob_set_mode.
-        (parport_pc_ecpepp_read_data): Likewise.
-        (parport_pc_ecpepp_write_data): Likewise.
-        (parport_pc_ecpepp_read_addr): Likewise.
-        (parport_pc_ecpepp_write_addr): Likewise.
-        (parport_pc_compat_write_block_pio): Likewise.
-        (parport_pc_ecp_write_block_pio): Likewise.
-        (parport_ECR_present): Likewise.
-        (parport_ECP_supported): Likewise.
-        (parport_EPP_supported): Likewise.
-        (parport_ECPEPP_supported): Likewise.
-        (programmable_irq_support): Likewise.
-        (irq_probe_ECP): Likewise.
-        (programmable_dma_support): Likewise.
-
-        (parport_pc_enable_irq): Only enable interrupts if we know which
-        IRQ line they will come from.
-        (parport_pc_init_state): Set nErrIntrEn at initialisation.
-        (parport_pc_restore_state): Only write writable bits of CTR.
-        (parport_irq_probe): If no IRQ is found, take ackIntEn out of the
-        writable bit set.
-
-2001-12-07  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_fifo_write_block_pio): Correct typo.
-        (parport_pc_init_state): Only set ackIntEn if we know which IRQ
-        line the interrupts will come from.
-
-2001-12-07  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * ieee1284_ops.c (parport_ieee1284_epp_write_addr,
-        parport_ieee1284_epp_read_addr): Actually do something useful.
-
-2001-12-07  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (dmaval): Don't use DMA by default.  It seems to be
-        too buggy at the moment.  Use 'dma=auto' to restore the previous
-        behaviour.
-
-2001-12-07  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * daisy.c (DEBUG): Undefine.
-
-2001-12-06  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * ieee1284_ops.c (parport_ieee1284_ecp_read_data): Mask off
-        PARPORT_CONTROL_AUTOFD as well.  Bug spotted by Joe
-        <joeja@mindspring.com>.
-
-2001-12-03  Rich Liu  <Rich.Liu@ite.com.tw>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (sio_ite_8872_probe): ITE8873 is a single-port
-        serial board, not a serial+parallel.
-
-2001-11-30  Niels Kristian Bech Jensen  <nkbj@image.dk>
-
-        * parport_pc.c: Fix compiler warning.
-
-2001-11-14  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_pci_probe): Hooks for PCI cards before
-        and after probing for ports.
-        * parport_serial.c (parport_register): Likewise.
-
-2001-11-12  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (init_module): Warn when parameters are ignored.
-
-2001-11-01  Damian Gruszka  <damian.gruszka@VisionSystems.de>
-
-        * parport_serial.c (serial_register): Set base_baud before
-        calling register_serial.
-
-2001-10-26  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_irq_probe): When ECR programmable IRQ
-        support fails, generate interrupts using the FIFO even if we don't
-        want to use the FIFO for real data transfers.
-        (parport_pc_probe_port): Display the ECR address if we have an
-        ECR, not just if we will use the FIFO.
-
-2001-10-24  Dave Strauss  <D.Strauss@motorola.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_compat_write_block_pio,
-        parport_pc_ecp_write_block_pio): Allow a few seconds for an ECP
-        transfer to finish up.
-
-2001-10-11  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc (sio_ite_8872_probe): New function, submitted by Rich
-        Liu from ITE.  Cleaned up, removed bogus phys_to_virt calls.
-
-2001-10-24  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c: Support for AKS AladdinCARD.  Patch from
-        Aladdin Knowledge Systems (Christian Groessler).
-
-2001-10-24  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-        
-        * ieee1284_ops.c (parport_ieee1284_ecp_read_data): Try to minimise
-        turnaround time.
-
-        * ieee1284.c (parport_poll_peripheral): Try a couple of times
-        first without delaying.
-
-2001-10-10  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c: Support for OX16PCI954 PCI card.
-
-2001-10-10  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c: Support for OX12PCI840 PCI card (reported by
-        mk@daveg.com).  Lock-ups diagnosed by Ronnie Arosa (and now we
-        just don't trust its ECR).
-
-2001-10-10  Gunther Mayer  <gunther.mayer@braunschweig.okersurf.de>
-
-        * parport_pc.c: Support for AVLAB cards.
-
-2001-10-10  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * ieee1284_ops.c (ecp_forward_to_reverse, ecp_reverse_to_forward):
-        Remember to retry direction switch if it fails.  Patch from David
-        Lambert.
-
-2001-10-08  David C. Hansen  <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
-
-        * share.c: Make driverlist_lock and parportlist_lock static.
-
-2001-10-08  Philip Blundell  <philb@gnu.org>
-
-        * parport_pc.c: New modular parameter verbose_logging.
-        Make port->modes indicate the modes that we are prepared to use,
-        rather than the modes that are available.
-
-2001-10-07  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_probe_port): Fix memory leak spotted by
-        Kipp Cannon.
-
-2001-10-07  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_serial.c: Remove NetMos support, since it causes problems
-        for some people.
-
-2001-08-30  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_serial.c (parport_serial_pci_probe): Clean-up on partial
-        registration failure.
-
-2001-08-14  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_init_superio): Allow for more than one
-        SuperIO device.  Patch from Rich Lio (ITE).
-
-2001-08-11  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c: Support for Titan Electronics cards.
-
-2001-08-08  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * share.c (parport_unregister_device): Remove device from wait list
-        too.
-
-2001-06-20  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c: Make 'io_hi=0' work.
-
-2001-05-31  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_serial.c: New file.
-
-2001-06-05  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_unregister_port): New exported function.
-        Do the opposite of parport_pc_probe_port.
-        (cleanup_module): Use it.
-
-2001-05-22  Juan Quintela  <quintela@mandrakesoft.com>
-
-        * parport_amiga.c: Set printk levels.
-        * parport_gsc.c: Likewise.
-        * parport_mfc3.c: Likewise.
-        * parport_pc.c: Likewise.
-        * parport_sunbpp.c: Likewise.
-        * probe.c: Likewise.
-        * share.c: Likewise.
-
-2001-05-10  Fred Barnes  <frmb2@ukc.ac.uk>
-
-       * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_epp_read_data): added support for
-       reading from a w91284pic peripheral, flag is PARPORT_W91284PIC.
-
-2001-05-07  Fred Barnes  <frmb2@ukc.ac.uk>
- 
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_epp_read_data,
-        parport_pc_epp_write_data, parport_pc_epp_read_addr,
-        parport_pc_epp_write_addr): support for fast reads/writes using
-        the PARPORT_EPP_FAST flag.
- 
-        * ieee1284.c (parport_read, parport_write): added code to handle
-        software EPP mode (IEEE1284_MODE_EPPSWE).  Added code to allow
-        BYTE mode reverse transfers (previously always went for NIBBLE
-        mode).
- 
-        * ieee1284_ops.c (parport_ieee1284_epp_read_data,
-        parport_ieee1284_epp_write_data): fixed various polarity problems.
-        Also (theoretically) fixed address versions (.._addr), but no
-        hardware to test this on.
- 
-        * parport_pc.h: added parport_dump_state() function for debugging.
-        Needs to have DEBUG_PARPORT to be defined for it to be included.
- 
-2001-05-03  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c: Fix the compile problem I introduce from the last
-        change.
-
-2001-04-20  Paul Gortmaker  <p_gortmaker@yahoo.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c: Cut down the size quite a bit (more than 4k off
-        the object, about 1k off the zImage) for the older non-PCI
-        machines which are typically resource starved anyway...
-
-2001-03-26  R Horn  <rjh@world.std.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c: Some commentary changes.
-
-2001-04-19  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_probe_port): Remove __devinit
-        attribute.  Export unconditionally.
-
-2001-04-14  Jeff Garzik  <jgarzik@pobox.com>
-
-        Merged:  2001-03-30  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * drivers/parport/parport_pc.c: Make Via SuperIO chipsets behave
-        like everything else with respect to irq= and dma= parameters.
-
-2001-04-08  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-      * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_save_state): Read from the soft copy of
-      the control port.
-      (parport_pc_restore_state): Update the soft copy of the control
-      port.
-
-2001-03-26  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * share.c (parport_find_number, parport_find_base): Trigger
-        a lowlevel driver load if there are no ports yet.
-
-2001-03-26  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_ECP_supported): Remove the IRQ conflict
-        check since it seems totally unreliable.
-
-2001-03-02  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * ieee1284_ops.c (parport_ieee1284_read_nibble): Reset nAutoFd
-        on timeout.  Matches 2.2.x behaviour.
-
-2001-03-02  Andrew Morton
-
-        * parport_pc.c (registered_parport): New static variable.
-        (parport_pc_find_ports): Set it when we register PCI driver.
-        (init_module): Unregister PCI driver if necessary when we
-        fail.
-
-2001-03-02  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * ieee1284_ops.c (parport_ieee1284_write_compat): Don't use
-        down_trylock to reset the IRQ count.  Don't even use sema_init,
-        because it's not even necessary to reset the count.  I can't
-        remember why we ever did.
-
-2001-01-04  Peter Osterlund  <peter.osterlund@mailbox.swipnet.se>
-
-        * ieee1284.c (parport_negotiate): Fix missing printk argument.
-
-2001-01-03  Paul Schleger  <Paul.Schleger@t-online.de>
-
-        * probe.c (parse_data): Get rid of trailing blanks in values.
-        Needed for XEROX XJ8C printer.
-
-2001-01-03  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_probe_port): Say something when probes
-        are omitted.
-
-2001-01-03  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (sio_via_686a_probe): Correct dma=255 fix.
-
-2000-11-21  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_ecp_write_block_pio): Fix
-        reverse-to-forward logic.  Spotted by Roland Kuck
-        <rci@cityweb.de>.
-
-2000-09-16  Cesar Eduardo Barros  <cesarb@nitnet.com.br>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (sio_via_686a_probe): Handle case
-        where hardware returns 255 for IRQ or DMA.
-
-2000-07-20  Eddie C. Dost  <ecd@skynet.be>
-
-        * share.c (attach_driver_chain): attach[i](port) needs to be
-        replaced by attach[count](port).
-
-2000-07-20  Eddie C. Dost  <ecd@skynet.be>
-
-        * daisy.c (add_dev): kmalloc args are in wrong order.
-
-2000-07-12  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * share.c: Documentation for parport_{get,port}_port,
-        parport_find_{number,base}.
-
-2000-07-12  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * share.c (parport_unregister_device): Remove unneeded locking
-        (test cad==dev).
-        (parport_claim): Likewise.
-        (parport_find_number): New function.
-
-2000-07-12  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * share.c (parport_register_port): Hold the parportlist_lock while
-        looking for a free parport number.
-        (parport_register_driver): Make sure that attach can block.
-        (attach_driver_chain): Likewise.
-
-2000-07-12  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * share.c (call_driver_chain): Do reference counting things.
-        (parport_get_port): New function.
-        (parport_put_port): New function.
-        (parport_register_port): Initialise reference count to zero.
-        (parport_unregister_port): Check reference count rather than
-        driver list to see if we can free the port.
-
-2000-07-12  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * share.c: Clarifications in doc comments.
-
-2000-07-12  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * share.c (parport_unregister_port): Fix typo in comment.
-
-2000-07-11  Gunther Mayer  <gunther.mayer@braunschweig.okersurf.de>
-
-        * parport_pc.c: Support for the full range of Timedia cards.
-
-2000-07-08  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * daisy.c: License block comments as part of parportbook.
-        * ieee1284.c: Likewise.
-        * share.c: Likewise.
-
-2000-06-30  Petr Vandrovec  <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
-
-        * procfs.c (do_hardware_modes): Generated string can be up to 34
-        chars long.
-
-2000-06-20  Gunther Mayer  <gunther.mayer@braunschweig.okersurf.de>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_compat_write_block_pio): Warn about
-        change_mode failures.
-        (parport_pc_ecp_write_block_pio): Likewise.
-        (parport_pc_ecp_read_block_pio): Likewise.
-
-2000-06-20  Gunther Mayer  <gunther.mayer@braunschweig.okersurf.de>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_SPP_supported): Warn more about possibly
-        incorrect parameters.
-
-2000-06-15  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_ECP_supported): Set PARPORT_MODE_COMPAT
-        for ECP ports, since they can all do hardware accelerated
-        compatibility mode (I assume).
-
-2000-06-13  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (cleanup_module): Remark about possible bugs.
-
-2000-06-13  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * procfs.c: Break 'hardware' out into separate files.
-
-2000-05-28  Gunther Mayer  <gunther.mayer@braunschweig.okersurf.de>
-
-        * Fix PCI ID printk for non-superio PCI cards.
-
-2000-05-28  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * share.c (call_driver_chain): Get the driverlist_lock.
-        (parport_register_device): Make sure that port->devices always
-        looks consistent.
-        (parport_register_driver): Ensure that parport drivers are given
-        parameters that are valid for the duration of the callback by
-        locking the portlist against changes.
-        (parport_unregister_driver): Likewise.
-        (parport_claim): Don't overwrite flags.
-
-2000-05-28  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * daisy.c (assign_addrs): Avoid double-probing daisy-chain devices
-        if the first probe succeeds.
-
-2000-05-16  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * share.c (parport_claim): Fix SMP race.
-
-2000-05-15  Gunther Mayer  <gunther.mayer@braunschweig.okersurf.de>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_compat_write_block_pio): Check for
-        timeouts.
-        (parport_pc_ecp_write_block_pio): Likewise.
-        (parport_pc_ecp_read_block_pio): Likewise.
-
-2000-05-02  Gunther Mayer  <gunther.mayer@braunschweig.okersurf.de>
-
-        * parport_pc.c: PCI SYBA patch and verbose PCI detection.
-
-2000-05-02  Gunther Mayer  <gunther.mayer@braunschweig.okersurf.de>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (decode_smsc): Fix SMSC 665/666 identification.
-
-2000-04-28  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * ieee1284.c: Short function descriptions can't be multiline.
-
-        * daisy.c: Short function descriptions can't be multiline.
-
-2000-04-19  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_fifo_write_block_dma): Make maxlen
-        calculation a bit clearer.
-
-        * ieee1284.c (parport_negotiate): Turn on data line drivers.
-
-        * ieee1284_ops.c (parport_ieee1284_read_byte): Turn off data line
-        drivers.
-        (parport_ieee1284_write_compat): Turn on data line drivers.
-
-        * daisy.c (assign_addrs): Turn on data line drivers.
-        (cpp_mux): Likewise.
-        (cpp_daisy): Likewise.
-
-2000-04-04  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c: Add support for another PCI card.
-
-2000-04-04  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * daisy.c: Documentation in kernel-doc format.
-
-        * ieee1284.c: Likewise.
-
-        * share.c: Likewise.
-
-2000-04-01  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * share.c (parport_register_device): Need to hold the module
-        reference counts before sleeping.
-
-2000-03-27  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_ecp_read_block_pio): Correct operation
-        when peripheral is trying to send data when we stop listening.
-
-2000-03-22  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * init.c (parport_setup): Fix return value.
-
-2000-03-21  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_pci_probe): Fix return value; call
-        pci_enable_device.
-
-2000-03-16  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_ECP_supported): This seems to trigger on
-        machines that don't have an IRQ conflict; toned down the warning
-        message accordingly.
-
-2000-03-16  Gunther Mayer  <gunther.mayer@braunschweig.netsurf.de>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (show_parconfig_smsc37c669): Fix typo.
-        (decode_winbond): More IDs.
-        (winbond_check): Protect against false positives.
-        (winbond_check2): Likewise.
-        (smsc_check): Likewise.
-
-2000-03-15  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (cleanup_module): Don't call pci_unregister_driver
-        if we didn't call pci_register_driver first.
-
-2000-03-13  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (parport_pc_init): Moved from asm/parport.h.
-
-        * Config.in: CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO: new option.
-
-        * parport_pc.c (show_parconfig_smsc37c669): Make __devinit.
-        (show_parconfig_winbond): Likewise.
-        (decode_winbond): Likewise.
-        (decode_smsc): Likewise.
-        (winbond_check): Likewise.
-        (winbond_check2): Likewise.
-        (smsc_check): Likewise.
-        (detect_and_report_winbond): Likewise.
-        (detect_and_report_smsc): Likewise.
-        (get_superio_dma): Likewise.
-        (get_superio_irq): Likewise.
-        (parport_pc_find_isa_ports): New function.
-        (parport_pc_find_ports): New function.
-        (init_module): Make superio a config option, not a parameter.
-
-2000-03-10  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c (decode_winbond): Use correct 83877ATF chip ID.
-        (decode_winbond): Fix typo.
-
-2000-03-09  Tim Waugh  <twaugh@redhat.com>
-
-        * parport_pc.c: Integrate SuperIO PCI probe with normal PCI card
-        probe, so that the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is complete.
-
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
index e7b0c3bcef89..c64e3528889b 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
@@ -1668,7 +1668,7 @@ static void tpacpi_remove_driver_attributes(struct device_driver *drv)
  * Table of recommended minimum BIOS versions
  *
  * Reasons for listing:
- *    1. Stable BIOS, listed because the unknown ammount of
+ *    1. Stable BIOS, listed because the unknown amount of
  *       bugs and bad ACPI behaviour on older versions
  *
  *    2. BIOS or EC fw with known bugs that trigger on Linux
@@ -7108,7 +7108,7 @@ static struct ibm_struct volume_driver_data = {
  *
  *      Fan speed changes of any sort (including those caused by the
  *      disengaged mode) are usually done slowly by the firmware as the
- *      maximum ammount of fan duty cycle change per second seems to be
+ *      maximum amount of fan duty cycle change per second seems to be
  *      limited.
  *
  *      Reading is not available if GFAN exists.
diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/raw3270.c b/drivers/s390/char/raw3270.c
index 62ddf5202b79..2a4c566456e7 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/char/raw3270.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/char/raw3270.c
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ raw3270_irq (struct ccw_device *cdev, unsigned long intparm, struct irb *irb)
                 rq->rc = ccw_device_start(rp->cdev, &rq->ccw,
                                           (unsigned long) rq, 0, 0);
                 if (rq->rc == 0)
-                        return; /* Sucessfully restarted. */
+                        return; /* Successfully restarted. */
                 break;
         case RAW3270_IO_STOP:
                 if (!rq)
diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/sclp.c b/drivers/s390/char/sclp.c
index ec88c59842e3..f6d72e1f2a38 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/char/sclp.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/char/sclp.c
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ __sclp_start_request(struct sclp_req *req)
         req->start_count++;
 
         if (rc == 0) {
-                /* Sucessfully started request */
+                /* Successfully started request */
                 req->status = SCLP_REQ_RUNNING;
                 sclp_running_state = sclp_running_state_running;
                 __sclp_set_request_timer(SCLP_RETRY_INTERVAL * HZ,
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c b/drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c
index 208d6df9ed59..ff5716d5f044 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ static void init_alloc_map(struct orc_host * host)
  *      init_orchid             -       initialise the host adapter
  *      @host:host adapter to initialise
  *
- *      Initialise the controller and if neccessary load the firmware.
+ *      Initialise the controller and if necessary load the firmware.
  *
  *      Returns -1 if the initialisation fails.
  */
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/initio.c b/drivers/scsi/initio.c
index 89a59484be02..a7714160fbc3 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/initio.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/initio.c
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ static void initio_read_eeprom(unsigned long base)
  *      initio_stop_bm          -       stop bus master
  *      @host: InitIO we are stopping
  *
- *      Stop any pending DMA operation, aborting the DMA if neccessary
+ *      Stop any pending DMA operation, aborting the DMA if necessary
  */
 
 static void initio_stop_bm(struct initio_host * host)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_fcp.c b/drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_fcp.c
index 6fde2fabfd9b..774e7ac837a5 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_fcp.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_fcp.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ struct kmem_cache *scsi_pkt_cachep;
 #define FC_SRB_CMD_SENT         (1 << 0)        /* cmd has been sent */
 #define FC_SRB_RCV_STATUS       (1 << 1)        /* response has arrived */
 #define FC_SRB_ABORT_PENDING    (1 << 2)        /* cmd abort sent to device */
-#define FC_SRB_ABORTED          (1 << 3)        /* abort acknowleged */
+#define FC_SRB_ABORTED          (1 << 3)        /* abort acknowledged */
 #define FC_SRB_DISCONTIG        (1 << 4)        /* non-sequential data recvd */
 #define FC_SRB_COMPL            (1 << 5)        /* fc_io_compl has been run */
 #define FC_SRB_FCP_PROCESSING_TMO (1 << 6)      /* timer function processing */
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ crc_err:
  *
  * Called after receiving a Transfer Ready data descriptor.
  * If the LLD is capable of sequence offload then send down the
- * seq_blen ammount of data in single frame, otherwise send
+ * seq_blen amount of data in single frame, otherwise send
  * multiple frames of the maximum frame payload supported by
  * the target port.
  */
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c
index 08b6634cb994..2a40a6eabf4d 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c
@@ -981,7 +981,7 @@ lpfc_issue_els_flogi(struct lpfc_vport *vport, struct lpfc_nodelist *ndlp,
  * function returns, it does not guarantee all the IOCBs are actually aborted.
  *
  * Return code
- *   0 - Sucessfully issued abort iocb on all outstanding flogis (Always 0)
+ *   0 - Successfully issued abort iocb on all outstanding flogis (Always 0)
  **/
 int
 lpfc_els_abort_flogi(struct lpfc_hba *phba)
@@ -3129,7 +3129,7 @@ lpfc_cmpl_els_rsp(struct lpfc_hba *phba, struct lpfc_iocbq *cmdiocb,
         if (ndlp && NLP_CHK_NODE_ACT(ndlp) &&
             (*((uint32_t *) (pcmd)) == ELS_CMD_LS_RJT)) {
                 /* A LS_RJT associated with Default RPI cleanup has its own
-                 * seperate code path.
+                 * separate code path.
                  */
                 if (!(ndlp->nlp_flag & NLP_RM_DFLT_RPI))
                         ls_rjt = 1;
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_scsi.c
index 7f21b47db791..483fb74bc592 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_scsi.c
@@ -1575,7 +1575,7 @@ lpfc_bg_scsi_prep_dma_buf(struct lpfc_hba *phba,
                 case LPFC_PG_TYPE_NO_DIF:
                         num_bde = lpfc_bg_setup_bpl(phba, scsi_cmnd, bpl,
                                         datasegcnt);
-                        /* we shoud have 2 or more entries in buffer list */
+                        /* we should have 2 or more entries in buffer list */
                         if (num_bde < 2)
                                 goto err;
                         break;
@@ -1612,7 +1612,7 @@ lpfc_bg_scsi_prep_dma_buf(struct lpfc_hba *phba,
 
                         num_bde = lpfc_bg_setup_bpl_prot(phba, scsi_cmnd, bpl,
                                         datasegcnt, protsegcnt);
-                        /* we shoud have 3 or more entries in buffer list */
+                        /* we should have 3 or more entries in buffer list */
                         if (num_bde < 3)
                                 goto err;
                         break;
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pcmcia/nsp_cs.h b/drivers/scsi/pcmcia/nsp_cs.h
index 7db28cd49446..8c61a4fe1db9 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/pcmcia/nsp_cs.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/pcmcia/nsp_cs.h
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
 #define S_IO            BIT(1)    /* Input/Output line from SCSI bus */
 #define S_CD            BIT(2)    /* Command/Data line from SCSI bus */
 #define S_BUSY          BIT(3)    /* Busy line from SCSI bus         */
-#define S_ACK           BIT(4)    /* Acknowlege line from SCSI bus   */
+#define S_ACK           BIT(4)    /* Acknowledge line from SCSI bus  */
 #define S_REQUEST       BIT(5)    /* Request line from SCSI bus      */
 #define S_SELECT        BIT(6)    /*                                 */
 #define S_ATN           BIT(7)    /*                                 */
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_hwi.c b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_hwi.c
index 9b44c6f1b10e..7985ae45d688 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_hwi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_hwi.c
@@ -2924,7 +2924,7 @@ hw_event_sas_phy_up(struct pm8001_hba_info *pm8001_ha, void *piomb)
                 break;
         default:
                 PM8001_MSG_DBG(pm8001_ha,
-                        pm8001_printk("unkown device type(%x)\n", deviceType));
+                        pm8001_printk("unknown device type(%x)\n", deviceType));
                 break;
         }
         phy->phy_type |= PORT_TYPE_SAS;
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_sas.c b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_sas.c
index 7f9c83a76390..3b2c98fba834 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_sas.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_sas.c
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ static void pm8001_free_dev(struct pm8001_device *pm8001_dev)
   * by the command "OPC_INB_REG_DEV", after that the HBA will assign a
   * device ID(according to device's sas address) and returned it to LLDD. From
   * now on, we communicate with HBA FW with the device ID which HBA assigned
-  * rather than sas address. it is the neccessary step for our HBA but it is
+  * rather than sas address. it is the necessary step for our HBA but it is
   * the optional for other HBA driver.
   */
 static int pm8001_dev_found_notify(struct domain_device *dev)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.h b/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.h
index 92f89d50850c..b8ad07c3449e 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.h
@@ -938,7 +938,7 @@ static struct pmcraid_ioasc_error pmcraid_ioasc_error_table[] = {
 
 /*
  * pmcraid_ioctl_header - definition of header structure that preceeds all the
- * buffers given as ioctl arguements.
+ * buffers given as ioctl arguments.
  *
  * .signature           : always ASCII string, "PMCRAID"
  * .reserved            : not used
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
index 1dd4d8407694..83881dfb33c0 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -2111,7 +2111,7 @@ static int sd_revalidate_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
  *      which is followed by sdaaa.
  *
  *      This is basically 26 base counting with one extra 'nil' entry
- *      at the beggining from the second digit on and can be
+ *      at the beginning from the second digit on and can be
  *      determined using similar method as 26 base conversion with the
  *      index shifted -1 after each digit is computed.
  *
diff --git a/drivers/serial/samsung.c b/drivers/serial/samsung.c
index 52e3df113ec0..03c010af966b 100644
--- a/drivers/serial/samsung.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/samsung.c
@@ -1271,7 +1271,7 @@ s3c24xx_serial_console_txrdy(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int ufcon)
         unsigned long ufstat, utrstat;
 
         if (ufcon & S3C2410_UFCON_FIFOMODE) {
-                /* fifo mode - check ammount of data in fifo registers... */
+                /* fifo mode - check amount of data in fifo registers... */
 
                 ufstat = rd_regl(port, S3C2410_UFSTAT);
                 return (ufstat & info->tx_fifofull) ? 0 : 1;
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi_s3c24xx.c b/drivers/spi/spi_s3c24xx.c
index c010733877ae..1fabede9e061 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi_s3c24xx.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi_s3c24xx.c
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ static inline u32 ack_bit(unsigned int irq)
  * Claim the FIQ handler (only one can be active at any one time) and
  * then setup the correct transfer code for this transfer.
  *
- * This call updates all the necessary state information if sucessful,
+ * This call updates all the necessary state information if successful,
  * so the caller does not need to do anything more than start the transfer
  * as normal, since the IRQ will have been re-routed to the FIQ handler.
 */
diff --git a/drivers/usb/musb/davinci.c b/drivers/usb/musb/davinci.c
index 66913811af5e..a883f9dd3f8a 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/musb/davinci.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/musb/davinci.c
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ static irqreturn_t davinci_interrupt(int irq, void *__hci)
         /* NOTE: DaVinci shadows the Mentor IRQs.  Don't manage them through
          * the Mentor registers (except for setup), use the TI ones and EOI.
          *
-         * Docs describe irq "vector" registers asociated with the CPPI and
+         * Docs describe irq "vector" registers associated with the CPPI and
          * USB EOI registers.  These hold a bitmask corresponding to the
          * current IRQ, not an irq handler address.  Would using those bits
          * resolve some of the races observed in this dispatch code??
diff --git a/drivers/usb/musb/musb_regs.h b/drivers/usb/musb/musb_regs.h
index 292894a2c247..8d8062b10e2f 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/musb/musb_regs.h
+++ b/drivers/usb/musb/musb_regs.h
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ static inline u8  musb_read_txhubport(void __iomem *mbase, u8 epnum)
 #define MUSB_FLAT_OFFSET(_epnum, _offset)       \
         (USB_OFFSET(USB_EP_NI0_TXMAXP) + (0x40 * (_epnum)) + (_offset))
 
-/* Not implemented - HW has seperate Tx/Rx FIFO */
+/* Not implemented - HW has separate Tx/Rx FIFO */
 #define MUSB_TXCSR_MODE                 0x0000
 
 static inline void musb_write_txfifosz(void __iomem *mbase, u8 c_size)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c b/drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c
index baf74b44e6ed..e23c77925e7a 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ struct cypress_private {
         int isthrottled;                   /* if throttled, discard reads */
         wait_queue_head_t delta_msr_wait;  /* used for TIOCMIWAIT */
         char prev_status, diff_status;     /* used for TIOCMIWAIT */
-        /* we pass a pointer to this as the arguement sent to
+        /* we pass a pointer to this as the argument sent to
            cypress_set_termios old_termios */
         struct ktermios tmp_termios;       /* stores the old termios settings */
 };
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/opticon.c b/drivers/usb/serial/opticon.c
index f37476e22684..701452ae9197 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/opticon.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/opticon.c
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static void opticon_bulk_callback(struct urb *urb)
                 }
         } else {
                 dev_dbg(&priv->udev->dev,
-                        "Improper ammount of data received from the device, "
+                        "Improper amount of data received from the device, "
                         "%d bytes", urb->actual_length);
         }
 
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/symbolserial.c b/drivers/usb/serial/symbolserial.c
index 72398888858f..ee190cc1757c 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/symbolserial.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/symbolserial.c
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ static void symbol_int_callback(struct urb *urb)
                 }
         } else {
                 dev_dbg(&priv->udev->dev,
-                        "Improper ammount of data received from the device, "
+                        "Improper amount of data received from the device, "
                         "%d bytes", urb->actual_length);
         }
 
diff --git a/drivers/usb/wusbcore/wusbhc.h b/drivers/usb/wusbcore/wusbhc.h
index fd2fd4e277e1..759cda55f7c3 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/wusbcore/wusbhc.h
+++ b/drivers/usb/wusbcore/wusbhc.h
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ struct wusb_port {
  *                 ports) this HC will take. Read-only.
  *
  * @port           Array of port status for each fake root port. Guaranteed to
- *                 always be the same lenght during device existence
+ *                 always be the same length during device existence
  *                 [this allows for some unlocked but referenced reading].
  *
  * @mmcies_max     Max number of Information Elements this HC can send
diff --git a/drivers/uwb/i1480/i1480-est.c b/drivers/uwb/i1480/i1480-est.c
index 7bf8c6febae7..f2eb4d8b76c9 100644
--- a/drivers/uwb/i1480/i1480-est.c
+++ b/drivers/uwb/i1480/i1480-est.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static struct uwb_est_entry i1480_est_fd01[] = {
                 .size = sizeof(struct i1480_rceb) + 2 },
 };
 
-static int i1480_est_init(void)
+static int __init i1480_est_init(void)
 {
         int result = uwb_est_register(i1480_CET_VS1, 0x00, 0x8086, 0x0c3b,
                                       i1480_est_fd00,
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static int i1480_est_init(void)
 }
 module_init(i1480_est_init);
 
-static void i1480_est_exit(void)
+static void __exit i1480_est_exit(void)
 {
         uwb_est_unregister(i1480_CET_VS1, 0x00, 0x8086, 0x0c3b,
                            i1480_est_fd00, ARRAY_SIZE(i1480_est_fd00));
diff --git a/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c b/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c
index 5a777d8624da..6210fe1fd1bb 100644
--- a/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c
+++ b/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
  *
  * EVENTS
  *
- * Events have a type, a subtype, a lenght, some other stuff and the
+ * Events have a type, a subtype, a length, some other stuff and the
  * data blob, which depends on the event. The header is 'struct
  * uwb_event'; for payloads, see 'struct uwbd_evt_*'.
  *
diff --git a/drivers/video/68328fb.c b/drivers/video/68328fb.c
index 0b17824b0eb5..2110556f76b3 100644
--- a/drivers/video/68328fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/68328fb.c
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ static int mc68x328fb_setcolreg(u_int regno, u_int red, u_int green, u_int blue,
          * Pseudocolor:
          *    uses offset = 0 && length = RAMDAC register width.
          *    var->{color}.offset is 0
-         *    var->{color}.length contains widht of DAC
+         *    var->{color}.length contains width of DAC
          *    cmap is not used
          *    RAMDAC[X] is programmed to (red, green, blue)
          * Truecolor:
diff --git a/drivers/video/mbx/mbxfb.c b/drivers/video/mbx/mbxfb.c
index 01f77bcc68f9..afea9abbd678 100644
--- a/drivers/video/mbx/mbxfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/mbx/mbxfb.c
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ static void __devinit setup_memc(struct fb_info *fbi)
         unsigned long tmp;
         int i;
 
-        /* FIXME: use platfrom specific parameters */
+        /* FIXME: use platform specific parameters */
         /* setup SDRAM controller */
         write_reg_dly((LMCFG_LMC_DS | LMCFG_LMC_TS | LMCFG_LMD_TS |
                 LMCFG_LMA_TS),
diff --git a/drivers/video/omap/lcdc.c b/drivers/video/omap/lcdc.c
index a33483910dc8..9557f963662e 100644
--- a/drivers/video/omap/lcdc.c
+++ b/drivers/video/omap/lcdc.c
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ static int omap_lcdc_enable_plane(int plane, int enable)
 /*
  * Configure the LCD DMA for a palette load operation and do the palette
  * downloading synchronously. We don't use the frame+palette load mode of
- * the controller, since the palette can always be downloaded seperately.
+ * the controller, since the palette can always be downloaded separately.
  */
 static void load_palette(void)
 {
diff --git a/drivers/video/pm2fb.c b/drivers/video/pm2fb.c
index 36436ee6c1a4..27f93aab6ddc 100644
--- a/drivers/video/pm2fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/pm2fb.c
@@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ static int pm2fb_setcolreg(unsigned regno, unsigned red, unsigned green,
          * Pseudocolor:
          *    uses offset = 0 && length = DAC register width.
          *    var->{color}.offset is 0
-         *    var->{color}.length contains widht of DAC
+         *    var->{color}.length contains width of DAC
          *    cmap is not used
          *    DAC[X] is programmed to (red, green, blue)
          * Truecolor:
diff --git a/drivers/video/s1d13xxxfb.c b/drivers/video/s1d13xxxfb.c
index 0deb0a8867b7..7b63429f1a7c 100644
--- a/drivers/video/s1d13xxxfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/s1d13xxxfb.c
@@ -517,12 +517,12 @@ s1d13xxxfb_bitblt_copyarea(struct fb_info *info, const struct fb_copyarea *area)
                 src = (sy * stride) + (bpp * sx);
         }
 
-        /* set source adress */
+        /* set source address */
         s1d13xxxfb_writereg(info->par, S1DREG_BBLT_SRC_START0, (src & 0xff));
         s1d13xxxfb_writereg(info->par, S1DREG_BBLT_SRC_START1, (src >> 8) & 0x00ff);
         s1d13xxxfb_writereg(info->par, S1DREG_BBLT_SRC_START2, (src >> 16) & 0x00ff);
 
-        /* set destination adress */
+        /* set destination address */
         s1d13xxxfb_writereg(info->par, S1DREG_BBLT_DST_START0, (dst & 0xff));
         s1d13xxxfb_writereg(info->par, S1DREG_BBLT_DST_START1, (dst >> 8) & 0x00ff);
         s1d13xxxfb_writereg(info->par, S1DREG_BBLT_DST_START2, (dst >> 16) & 0x00ff);
diff --git a/drivers/video/sm501fb.c b/drivers/video/sm501fb.c
index 35370d0ecf03..b7dc1800efa9 100644
--- a/drivers/video/sm501fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/sm501fb.c
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ static int sm501fb_set_par_common(struct fb_info *info,
         struct sm501fb_par  *par = info->par;
         struct sm501fb_info *fbi = par->info;
         unsigned long pixclock;      /* pixelclock in Hz */
-        unsigned long sm501pixclock; /* pixelclock the 501 can achive in Hz */
+        unsigned long sm501pixclock; /* pixelclock the 501 can achieve in Hz */
         unsigned int mem_type;
         unsigned int clock_type;
         unsigned int head_addr;
diff --git a/drivers/video/sstfb.c b/drivers/video/sstfb.c
index 609d0a521ca2..79840f11fecb 100644
--- a/drivers/video/sstfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/sstfb.c
@@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ static void sst_set_vidmod_ics(struct fb_info *info, const int bpp)
  * detect dac type
  * prerequisite : write to FbiInitx enabled, video and fbi and pci fifo reset,
  * dram refresh disabled, FbiInit remaped.
- * TODO: mmh.. maybe i shoud put the "prerequisite" in the func ...
+ * TODO: mmh.. maybe i should put the "prerequisite" in the func ...
  */
 
 
diff --git a/drivers/w1/w1.c b/drivers/w1/w1.c
index acc7e3b7fe17..ad5897dc4495 100644
--- a/drivers/w1/w1.c
+++ b/drivers/w1/w1.c
@@ -986,7 +986,7 @@ int w1_process(void *data)
         return 0;
 }
 
-static int w1_init(void)
+static int __init w1_init(void)
 {
         int retval;
 
@@ -1034,7 +1034,7 @@ err_out_exit_init:
         return retval;
 }
 
-static void w1_fini(void)
+static void __exit w1_fini(void)
 {
         struct w1_master *dev;
 
diff --git a/drivers/zorro/zorro.ids b/drivers/zorro/zorro.ids
index 0c0f99e2dd62..de24e3decedd 100644
--- a/drivers/zorro/zorro.ids
+++ b/drivers/zorro/zorro.ids
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
         0c00  500XP/SupraDrive WordSync [SCSI Host Adapter]
         0d00  SupraDrive WordSync II [SCSI Host Adapter]
         1000  2400zi+ [Modem]
-0422  Computer Systems Assosiates
+0422  Computer Systems Associates
         1100  Magnum 40 [Accelerator and SCSI Host Adapter]
         1500  12 Gauge [SCSI Host Adapter]
 0439  Marc Michael Groth
diff --git a/fs/affs/bitmap.c b/fs/affs/bitmap.c
index dc5ef14bdc1c..8306d53307ed 100644
--- a/fs/affs/bitmap.c
+++ b/fs/affs/bitmap.c
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ err_range:
 /*
  * Allocate a block in the given allocation zone.
  * Since we have to byte-swap the bitmap on little-endian
- * machines, this is rather expensive. Therefor we will
+ * machines, this is rather expensive. Therefore we will
  * preallocate up to 16 blocks from the same word, if
  * possible. We are not doing preallocations in the
  * header zone, though.
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c b/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
index 6d6a16c5e9bb..2c32d00a6690 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
@@ -1374,7 +1374,7 @@ static inline void fill_note(struct memelfnote *note, const char *name, int type
 
 /*
  * fill up all the fields in prstatus from the given task struct, except
- * registers which need to be filled up seperately.
+ * registers which need to be filled up separately.
  */
 static void fill_prstatus(struct elf_prstatus *prstatus,
                           struct task_struct *p, long signr)
diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index dc17afd672e3..e1f922184b45 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -264,13 +264,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_init);
  * bio_alloc_bioset - allocate a bio for I/O
  * @gfp_mask:   the GFP_ mask given to the slab allocator
  * @nr_iovecs:  number of iovecs to pre-allocate
- * @bs:         the bio_set to allocate from. If %NULL, just use kmalloc
+ * @bs:         the bio_set to allocate from.
  *
  * Description:
- *   bio_alloc_bioset will first try its own mempool to satisfy the allocation.
+ *   bio_alloc_bioset will try its own mempool to satisfy the allocation.
  *   If %__GFP_WAIT is set then we will block on the internal pool waiting
- *   for a &struct bio to become free. If a %NULL @bs is passed in, we will
- *   fall back to just using @kmalloc to allocate the required memory.
+ *   for a &struct bio to become free.
  *
  *   Note that the caller must set ->bi_destructor on successful return
  *   of a bio, to do the appropriate freeing of the bio once the reference
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 6fa530256bfd..1d920bab5e70 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -2893,7 +2893,7 @@ int block_write_full_page_endio(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block,
 
         /*
          * The page straddles i_size.  It must be zeroed out on each and every
-         * writepage invokation because it may be mmapped.  "A file is mapped
+         * writepage invocation because it may be mmapped.  "A file is mapped
          * in multiples of the page size.  For a file that is not a multiple of
          * the  page size, the remaining memory is zeroed when mapped, and
          * writes to that region are not written out to the file."
diff --git a/fs/cifs/asn1.c b/fs/cifs/asn1.c
index 20692fbfdb24..a20bea598933 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/asn1.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/asn1.c
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ asn1_enum_decode(struct asn1_ctx *ctx, __le32 *val)
                 return 0;
         }
 
-        ch = *(ctx->pointer)++; /* ch has 0xa, ptr points to lenght octet */
+        ch = *(ctx->pointer)++; /* ch has 0xa, ptr points to length octet */
         if ((ch) == ASN1_ENUM)  /* if ch value is ENUM, 0xa */
                 *val = *(++(ctx->pointer)); /* value has enum value */
         else
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c b/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c
index b44ce0a0711c..b1d61d0bdfc7 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ void cifs_dfs_release_automount_timer(void)
  * Extracts sharename form full UNC.
  * i.e. strips from UNC trailing path that is not part of share
  * name and fixup missing '\' in the begining of DFS node refferal
- * if neccessary.
+ * if necessary.
  * Returns pointer to share name on success or ERR_PTR on error.
  * Caller is responsible for freeing returned string.
  */
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
index 9d17df3e0768..611835899844 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
@@ -3886,7 +3886,7 @@ parse_DFS_referrals(TRANSACTION2_GET_DFS_REFER_RSP *pSMBr,
                 goto parse_DFS_referrals_exit;
         }
 
-        /* collect neccessary data from referrals */
+        /* collect necessary data from referrals */
         for (i = 0; i < *num_of_nodes; i++) {
                 char *temp;
                 int max_len;
diff --git a/fs/dlm/member.c b/fs/dlm/member.c
index 84f70bfb0baf..b12532e553f8 100644
--- a/fs/dlm/member.c
+++ b/fs/dlm/member.c
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ int dlm_ls_stop(struct dlm_ls *ls)
         /*
          * This in_recovery lock does two things:
          * 1) Keeps this function from returning until all threads are out
-         *    of locking routines and locking is truely stopped.
+         *    of locking routines and locking is truly stopped.
          * 2) Keeps any new requests from being processed until it's unlocked
          *    when recovery is complete.
          */
diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c
index e844accbf55d..1bee604cc6cd 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ void ext3_msg(struct super_block *sb, const char *prefix,
  * write out the superblock safely.
  *
  * We'll just use the journal_abort() error code to record an error in
- * the journal instead.  On recovery, the journal will compain about
+ * the journal instead.  On recovery, the journal will complain about
  * that error until we've noted it down and cleared it.
  */
 
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 506713a2ebd8..54df209d2eed 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
  *
  * pa_lstart -> the logical start block for this prealloc space
  * pa_pstart -> the physical start block for this prealloc space
- * pa_len    -> lenght for this prealloc space
+ * pa_len    -> length for this prealloc space
  * pa_free   ->  free space available in this prealloc space
  *
  * The inode preallocation space is used looking at the _logical_ start
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 2b83b96cb2eb..6ea6b67c70a2 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ void ext4_journal_abort_handle(const char *caller, const char *err_fn,
  * write out the superblock safely.
  *
  * We'll just use the jbd2_journal_abort() error code to record an error in
- * the journal instead.  On recovery, the journal will compain about
+ * the journal instead.  On recovery, the journal will complain about
  * that error until we've noted it down and cleared it.
  */
 
diff --git a/fs/fuse/inode.c b/fs/fuse/inode.c
index 1a822ce2b24b..ec14d19ce501 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/inode.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/inode.c
@@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ static void fuse_send_init(struct fuse_conn *fc, struct fuse_req *req)
         req->in.args[0].size = sizeof(*arg);
         req->in.args[0].value = arg;
         req->out.numargs = 1;
-        /* Variable length arguement used for backward compatibility
+        /* Variable length argument used for backward compatibility
            with interface version < 7.5.  Rest of init_out is zeroed
            by do_get_request(), so a short reply is not a problem */
         req->out.argvar = 1;
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c b/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
index a054b526dc08..c1309ed1c496 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
@@ -1001,7 +1001,7 @@ static const struct lm_lockops nolock_ops = {
 /**
  * gfs2_lm_mount - mount a locking protocol
  * @sdp: the filesystem
- * @args: mount arguements
+ * @args: mount arguments
  * @silent: if 1, don't complain if the FS isn't a GFS2 fs
  *
  * Returns: errno
diff --git a/fs/jbd/transaction.c b/fs/jbd/transaction.c
index 99e9fea11077..5ae71e75a491 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/transaction.c
@@ -1398,7 +1398,7 @@ int journal_stop(handle_t *handle)
          * the case where our storage is so fast that it is more optimal to go
          * ahead and force a flush and wait for the transaction to be committed
          * than it is to wait for an arbitrary amount of time for new writers to
-         * join the transaction.  We acheive this by measuring how long it takes
+         * join the transaction.  We achieve this by measuring how long it takes
          * to commit a transaction, and compare it with how long this
          * transaction has been running, and if run time < commit time then we
          * sleep for the delta and commit.  This greatly helps super fast disks
diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
index ae9ded026b7c..ab24d49fc048 100644
--- a/fs/locks.c
+++ b/fs/locks.c
@@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_setlease);
  *      leases held by processes on this node.
  *
  *      There is also no break_lease method; filesystems that
- *      handle their own leases shoud break leases themselves from the
+ *      handle their own leases should break leases themselves from the
  *      filesystem's open, create, and (on truncate) setattr methods.
  *
  *      Warning: the only current setlease methods exist only to disable
diff --git a/fs/mpage.c b/fs/mpage.c
index 42381bd6543b..598d54e200eb 100644
--- a/fs/mpage.c
+++ b/fs/mpage.c
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ page_is_mapped:
         if (page->index >= end_index) {
                 /*
                  * The page straddles i_size.  It must be zeroed out on each
-                 * and every writepage invokation because it may be mmapped.
+                 * and every writepage invocation because it may be mmapped.
                  * "A file is mapped in multiples of the page size.  For a file
                  * that is not a multiple of the page size, the remaining memory
                  * is zeroed when mapped, and writes to that region are not
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 48e60a187325..1c0fca6e899e 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2544,7 +2544,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(link, const char __user *, oldname, const char __user *, newname
  *      e) conversion from fhandle to dentry may come in the wrong moment - when
  *         we are removing the target. Solution: we will have to grab ->i_mutex
  *         in the fhandle_to_dentry code. [FIXME - current nfsfh.c relies on
- *         ->i_mutex on parents, which works but leads to some truely excessive
+ *         ->i_mutex on parents, which works but leads to some truly excessive
  *         locking].
  */
 static int vfs_rename_dir(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
index 78c7e24e5129..c47b4d7bafa7 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
@@ -1528,7 +1528,7 @@ static void write_cinfo(__be32 **p, struct nfsd4_change_info *c)
         } } while (0);
 
 /* Encode as an array of strings the string given with components
- * seperated @sep.
+ * separated @sep.
  */
 static __be32 nfsd4_encode_components(char sep, char *components,
                                    __be32 **pp, int *buflen)
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
deleted file mode 100644
index 37c11e194372..000000000000
--- a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,1702 +0,0 @@
-ToDo/Notes:
-        - Find and fix bugs.
-        - The only places in the kernel where a file is resized are
-          ntfs_file_write*() and ntfs_truncate() for both of which i_mutex is
-          held.  Just have to be careful in read-/writepage and other helpers
-          not running under i_mutex that we play nice.  Also need to be careful
-          with initialized_size extension in ntfs_file_write*() and writepage.
-          UPDATE: The only things that need to be checked are the compressed
-          write and the other attribute resize/write cases like index
-          attributes, etc.  For now none of these are implemented so are safe.
-        - Implement filling in of holes in aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and its
-          helpers.
-        - Implement mft.c::sync_mft_mirror_umount().  We currently will just
-          leave the volume dirty on umount if the final iput(vol->mft_ino)
-          causes a write of any mirrored mft records due to the mft mirror
-          inode having been discarded already.  Whether this can actually ever
-          happen is unclear however so it is worth waiting until someone hits
-          the problem.
-
-2.1.29 - Fix a deadlock at mount time.
-
-        - During mount the VFS holds s_umount lock on the superblock.  So when
-          we try to empty the journal $LogFile contents by calling
-          ntfs_attr_set() when the machine does not have much memory and the
-          journal is large ntfs_attr_set() results in the VM trying to balance
-          dirty pages which in turn tries to that the s_umount lock and thus we
-          get a deadlock.  The solution is to not use ntfs_attr_set() and
-          instead do the zeroing by hand at the block level rather than page
-          cache level.
-        - Fix sparse warnings.
-
-2.1.28 - Fix a deadlock.
-
-        - Fix deadlock in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode().  Thanks to Sergey
-          Vlasov for the report and detailed analysis of the deadlock.  The fix
-          involved getting rid of ntfs_put_inode() altogether and hence NTFS no
-          longer has a ->put_inode super operation.
-
-2.1.27 - Various bug fixes and cleanups.
-
-        - Fix two compiler warnings on Alpha.  Thanks to Andrew Morton for
-          reporting them.
-        - Fix an (innocent) off-by-one error in the runlist code.
-        - Fix a buggette in an "should be impossible" case handling where we
-          continued the attribute lookup loop instead of aborting it.
-        - Use buffer_migrate_page() for the ->migratepage function of all ntfs
-          address space operations.
-        - Fix comparison of $MFT and $MFTMirr to not bail out when there are
-          unused, invalid mft records which are the same in both $MFT and
-          $MFTMirr.
-        - Add support for sparse files which have a compression unit of 0.
-        - Remove all the make_bad_inode() calls.  This should only be called
-          from read inode and new inode code paths.
-        - Limit name length in fs/ntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_nlstoucs() to maximum
-          allowed by NTFS, i.e. 255 Unicode characters, not including the
-          terminating NULL (which is not stored on disk).
-        - Improve comments on file attribute flags in fs/ntfs/layout.h.
-        - Fix a bug in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_index_inode() where we
-          forgot to update a temporary variable so loading index inodes which
-          have an index allocation attribute failed.
-        - Add a missing call to flush_dcache_mft_record_page() in
-          fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode().
-        - Handle the recently introduced -ENAMETOOLONG return value from
-          fs/ntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_nlstoucs() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup().
-        - Semaphore to mutex conversion.  (Ingo Molnar)
-
-2.1.26 - Minor bug fixes and updates.
-
-        - Fix a potential overflow in file.c where a cast to s64 was missing in
-          a left shift of a page index.
-        - The struct inode has had its i_sem semaphore changed to a mutex named
-          i_mutex.
-        - We have struct kmem_cache now so use it instead of the typedef
-          kmem_cache_t.  (Pekka Enberg)
-        - Implement support for sector sizes above 512 bytes (up to the maximum
-          supported by NTFS which is 4096 bytes).
-        - Do more detailed reporting of why we cannot mount read-write by
-          special casing the VOLUME_MODIFIED_BY_CHKDSK flag.
-        - Miscellaneous updates to layout.h.
-        - Cope with attribute list attribute having invalid flags.  Windows
-          copes with this and even chkdsk does not detect or fix this so we
-          have to cope with it, too.  Thanks to Pawel Kot for reporting the
-          problem.
-
-2.1.25 - (Almost) fully implement write(2) and truncate(2).
-
-        - Change ntfs_map_runlist_nolock(), ntfs_attr_find_vcn_nolock() and
-          {__,}ntfs_cluster_free() to also take an optional attribute search
-          context as argument.  This allows calling these functions with the
-          mft record mapped.  Update all callers.
-        - Fix potential deadlock in ntfs_mft_data_extend_allocation_nolock()
-          error handling by passing in the active search context when calling
-          ntfs_cluster_free().
-        - Change ntfs_cluster_alloc() to take an extra boolean parameter
-          specifying whether the cluster are being allocated to extend an
-          attribute or to fill a hole.
-        - Change ntfs_attr_make_non_resident() to call ntfs_cluster_alloc()
-          with @is_extension set to TRUE and remove the runlist terminator
-          fixup code as this is now done by ntfs_cluster_alloc().
-        - Change ntfs_attr_make_non_resident to take the attribute value size
-          as an extra parameter.  This is needed since we need to know the size
-          before we can map the mft record and our callers always know it.  The
-          reason we cannot simply read the size from the vfs inode i_size is
-          that this is not necessarily uptodate.  This happens when
-          ntfs_attr_make_non_resident() is called in the ->truncate call path.
-        - Fix ntfs_attr_make_non_resident() to update the vfs inode i_blocks
-          which is zero for a resident attribute but should no longer be zero
-          once the attribute is non-resident as it then has real clusters
-          allocated.
-        - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_extend_allocation(), a function to
-          extend the allocation of an attributes.  Optionally, the data size,
-          but not the initialized size can be extended, too.
-        - Implement fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]::ntfs_truncate().  It only supports
-          uncompressed and unencrypted files and it never creates sparse files
-          at least for the moment (making a file sparse requires us to modify
-          its directory entries and we do not support directory operations at
-          the moment).  Also, support for highly fragmented files, i.e. ones
-          whose data attribute is split across multiple extents, is severly
-          limited.  When such a case is encountered, EOPNOTSUPP is returned.
-        - Enable ATTR_SIZE attribute changes in ntfs_setattr().  This completes
-          the initial implementation of file truncation.  Now both open(2)ing
-          a file with the O_TRUNC flag and the {,f}truncate(2) system calls
-          will resize a file appropriately.  The limitations are that only
-          uncompressed and unencrypted files are supported.  Also, there is
-          only very limited support for highly fragmented files (the ones whose
-          $DATA attribute is split into multiple attribute extents).
-        - In attrib.c::ntfs_attr_set() call balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited()
-          and cond_resched() in the main loop as we could be dirtying a lot of
-          pages and this ensures we play nice with the VM and the system as a
-          whole.
-        - Implement file operations ->write, ->aio_write, ->writev for regular
-          files.  This replaces the old use of generic_file_write(), et al and
-          the address space operations ->prepare_write and ->commit_write.
-          This means that both sparse and non-sparse (unencrypted and
-          uncompressed) files can now be extended using the normal write(2)
-          code path.  There are two limitations at present and these are that
-          we never create sparse files and that we only have limited support
-          for highly fragmented files, i.e. ones whose data attribute is split
-          across multiple extents.   When such a case is encountered,
-          EOPNOTSUPP is returned.
-        - $EA attributes can be both resident and non-resident.
-        - Use %z for size_t to fix compilation warnings.  (Andrew Morton)
-        - Fix compilation warnings with gcc-4.0.2 on SUSE 10.0.
-        - Document extended attribute ($EA) NEED_EA flag.  (Based on libntfs
-          patch by Yura Pakhuchiy.)
-
-2.1.24 - Lots of bug fixes and support more clean journal states.
-
-        - Support journals ($LogFile) which have been modified by chkdsk.  This
-          means users can boot into Windows after we marked the volume dirty.
-          The Windows boot will run chkdsk and then reboot.  The user can then
-          immediately boot into Linux rather than having to do a full Windows
-          boot first before rebooting into Linux and we will recognize such a
-          journal and empty it as it is clean by definition.  Note, this only
-          works if chkdsk left the journal in an obviously clean state.
-        - Support journals ($LogFile) with only one restart page as well as
-          journals with two different restart pages.  We sanity check both and
-          either use the only sane one or the more recent one of the two in the
-          case that both are valid.
-        - Add fs/ntfs/malloc.h::ntfs_malloc_nofs_nofail() which is analogous to
-          ntfs_malloc_nofs() but it performs allocations with __GFP_NOFAIL and
-          hence cannot fail.
-        - Use ntfs_malloc_nofs_nofail() in the two critical regions in
-          fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_runlists_merge().  This means we no longer
-          need to panic() if the allocation fails as it now cannot fail.
-        - Fix two nasty runlist merging bugs that had gone unnoticed so far.
-          Thanks to Stefano Picerno for the bug report.
-        - Remove two bogus BUG_ON()s from fs/ntfs/mft.c.
-        - Fix handling of valid but empty mapping pairs array in
-          fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress().
-        - Report unrepresentable inodes during ntfs_readdir() as KERN_WARNING
-          messages and include the inode number.  Thanks to Yura Pakhuchiy for
-          pointing this out.
-        - Change ntfs_rl_truncate_nolock() to throw away the runlist if the new
-          length is zero.
-        - Add runlist.[hc]::ntfs_rl_punch_nolock() which punches a caller
-          specified hole into a runlist.
-        - Fix a bug in fs/ntfs/index.c::ntfs_index_lookup().  When the returned
-          index entry is in the index root, we forgot to set the @ir pointer in
-          the index context.  Thanks to Yura Pakhuchiy for finding this bug.
-        - Remove bogus setting of PageError in ntfs_read_compressed_block().
-        - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_resident_attr_value_resize().
-        - Fix a bug in ntfs_map_runlist_nolock() where we forgot to protect
-          access to the allocated size in the ntfs inode with the size lock.
-        - Fix ntfs_attr_vcn_to_lcn_nolock() and ntfs_attr_find_vcn_nolock() to
-          return LCN_ENOENT when there is no runlist and the allocated size is
-          zero.
-        - Fix load_attribute_list() to handle the case of a NULL runlist.
-        - Fix handling of sparse attributes in ntfs_attr_make_non_resident().
-        - Add BUG() checks to ntfs_attr_make_non_resident() and ntfs_attr_set()
-          to ensure that these functions are never called for compressed or
-          encrypted attributes.
-        - Fix cluster (de)allocators to work when the runlist is NULL and more
-          importantly to take a locked runlist rather than them locking it
-          which leads to lock reversal.
-        - Truncate {a,c,m}time to the ntfs supported time granularity when
-          updating the times in the inode in ntfs_setattr().
-        - Fixup handling of sparse, compressed, and encrypted attributes in
-          fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_{,attr_,index_}inode(),
-          fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}page().
-        - Make ntfs_write_block() not instantiate sparse blocks if they contain
-          only zeroes.
-        - Optimize fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_block() by extending the page
-          lock protection over the buffer submission for i/o which allows the
-          removal of the get_bh()/put_bh() pairs for each buffer.
-        - Fix fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}_block() to handle the case
-          where a concurrent truncate has truncated the runlist under our feet.
-        - Fix page_has_buffers()/page_buffers() handling in fs/ntfs/aops.c.
-        - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_end_buffer_async_read(), use a bit spin lock
-          in the first buffer head instead of a driver global spin lock to
-          improve scalability.
-        - Minor fix to error handling and error message display in
-          fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write().
-        - Change the mount options {u,f,d}mask to always parse the number as
-          an octal number to conform to how chmod(1) works, too.  Thanks to
-          Giuseppe Bilotta and Horst von Brand for pointing out the errors of
-          my ways.
-        - Fix various bugs in the runlist merging code.  (Based on libntfs
-          changes by Richard Russon.)
-        - Fix sparse warnings that have crept in over time.
-        - Change ntfs_cluster_free() to require a write locked runlist on entry
-          since we otherwise get into a lock reversal deadlock if a read locked
-          runlist is passed in. In the process also change it to take an ntfs
-          inode instead of a vfs inode as parameter.
-        - Fix the definition of the CHKD ntfs record magic.  It had an off by
-          two error causing it to be CHKB instead of CHKD.
-        - Fix a stupid bug in __ntfs_bitmap_set_bits_in_run() which caused the
-          count to become negative and hence we had a wild memset() scribbling
-          all over the system's ram.
-
-2.1.23 - Implement extension of resident files and make writing safe as well as
-         many bug fixes, cleanups, and enhancements...
-
-        - Add printk rate limiting for ntfs_warning() and ntfs_error() when
-          compiled without debug.  This avoids a possible denial of service
-          attack.  Thanks to Carl-Daniel Hailfinger from SuSE for pointing this
-          out.
-        - Fix compilation warnings on ia64.  (Randy Dunlap)
-        - Use i_size_{read,write}() instead of reading i_size by hand and cache
-          the value where apropriate.
-        - Add size_lock to the ntfs_inode structure.  This is an rw spinlock
-          and it locks against access to the inode sizes.  Note, ->size_lock
-          is also accessed from irq context so you must use the _irqsave and
-          _irqrestore lock and unlock functions, respectively.  Protect all
-          accesses to allocated_size, initialized_size, and compressed_size.
-        - Minor optimization to fs/ntfs/super.c::ntfs_statfs() and its helpers.
-        - Implement extension of resident files in the regular file write code
-          paths (fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{prepare,commit}_write()).  At present
-          this only works until the data attribute becomes too big for the mft
-          record after which we abort the write returning -EOPNOTSUPP from
-          ntfs_prepare_write().
-        - Add disable_sparse mount option together with a per volume sparse
-          enable bit which is set appropriately and a per inode sparse disable
-          bit which is preset on some system file inodes as appropriate.
-        - Enforce that sparse support is disabled on NTFS volumes pre 3.0.
-        - Fix a bug in fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress() in
-          the creation of the unmapped runlist element for the base attribute
-          extent.
-        - Split ntfs_map_runlist() into ntfs_map_runlist() and a non-locking
-          helper ntfs_map_runlist_nolock() which is used by ntfs_map_runlist().
-          This allows us to map runlist fragments with the runlist lock already
-          held without having to drop and reacquire it around the call.  Adapt
-          all callers.
-        - Change ntfs_find_vcn() to ntfs_find_vcn_nolock() which takes a locked
-          runlist.  This allows us to find runlist elements with the runlist
-          lock already held without having to drop and reacquire it around the
-          call.  Adapt all callers.
-        - Change time to u64 in time.h::ntfs2utc() as it otherwise generates a
-          warning in the do_div() call on sparc32.  Thanks to Meelis Roos for
-          the report and analysis of the warning.
-        - Fix a nasty runlist merge bug when merging two holes.
-        - Set the ntfs_inode->allocated_size to the real allocated size in the
-          mft record for resident attributes (fs/ntfs/inode.c).
-        - Small readability cleanup to use "a" instead of "ctx->attr"
-          everywhere (fs/ntfs/inode.c).
-        - Make fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_{parent,dentry} static and move the
-          definition of ntfs_export_ops from fs/ntfs/super.c to namei.c.  Also,
-          declare ntfs_export_ops in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h.
-        - Correct sparse file handling.  The compressed values need to be
-          checked and set in the ntfs inode as done for compressed files and
-          the compressed size needs to be used for vfs inode->i_blocks instead
-          of the allocated size, again, as done for compressed files.
-        - Add AT_EA in addition to AT_DATA to whitelist for being allowed to be
-          non-resident in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident().
-        - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_vcn_to_lcn_nolock() used by the new
-          write code.
-        - Fix bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_find_vcn_nolock() where after
-          dropping the read lock and taking the write lock we were not checking
-          whether someone else did not already do the work we wanted to do.
-        - Rename fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_find_vcn_nolock() to
-          ntfs_attr_find_vcn_nolock() and update all callers.
-        - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_make_non_resident().
-        - Fix sign of various error return values to be negative in
-          fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c.
-        - Modify ->readpage and ->writepage (fs/ntfs/aops.c) so they detect and
-          handle the case where an attribute is converted from resident to
-          non-resident by a concurrent file write.
-        - Remove checks for NULL before calling kfree() since kfree() does the
-          checking itself.  (Jesper Juhl)
-        - Some utilities modify the boot sector but do not update the checksum.
-          Thus, relax the checking in fs/ntfs/super.c::is_boot_sector_ntfs() to
-          only emit a warning when the checksum is incorrect rather than
-          refusing the mount.  Thanks to Bernd Casimir for pointing this
-          problem out.
-        - Update attribute definition handling.
-        - Add NTFS_MAX_CLUSTER_SIZE and NTFS_MAX_PAGES_PER_CLUSTER constants.
-        - Use NTFS_MAX_CLUSTER_SIZE in super.c instead of hard coding 0x10000.
-        - Use MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE instead of variable sized array allocation for
-          better code generation and one less sparse warning in fs/ntfs/aops.c.
-        - Remove spurious void pointer casts from fs/ntfs/.  (Pekka Enberg)
-        - Use C99 style structure initialization after memory allocation where
-          possible (fs/ntfs/{attrib.c,index.c,super.c}).  Thanks to Al Viro and
-          Pekka Enberg.
-        - Stamp the transaction log ($UsnJrnl), aka user space journal, if it
-          is active on the volume and we are mounting read-write or remounting
-          from read-only to read-write.
-        - Fix a bug in address space operations error recovery code paths where
-          if the runlist was not mapped at all and a mapping error occured we
-          would leave the runlist locked on exit to the function so that the
-          next access to the same file would try to take the lock and deadlock.
-        - Detect the case when Windows has been suspended to disk on the volume
-          to be mounted and if this is the case do not allow (re)mounting
-          read-write.  This is done by parsing hiberfil.sys if present.
-        - Fix several occurences of a bug where we would perform 'var & ~const'
-          with a 64-bit variable and a int, i.e. 32-bit, constant.  This causes
-          the higher order 32-bits of the 64-bit variable to be zeroed.  To fix
-          this cast the 'const' to the same 64-bit type as 'var'.
-        - Change the runlist terminator of the newly allocated cluster(s) to
-          LCN_ENOENT in ntfs_attr_make_non_resident().  Otherwise the runlist
-          code gets confused.
-        - Add an extra parameter @last_vcn to ntfs_get_size_for_mapping_pairs()
-          and ntfs_mapping_pairs_build() to allow the runlist encoding to be
-          partial which is desirable when filling holes in sparse attributes.
-          Update all callers.
-        - Change ntfs_map_runlist_nolock() to only decompress the mapping pairs
-          if the requested vcn is inside it.  Otherwise we get into problems
-          when we try to map an out of bounds vcn because we then try to map
-          the already mapped runlist fragment which causes
-          ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress() to fail and return error.  Update
-          ntfs_attr_find_vcn_nolock() accordingly.
-        - Fix a nasty deadlock that appeared in recent kernels.
-          The situation: VFS inode X on a mounted ntfs volume is dirty.  For
-          same inode X, the ntfs_inode is dirty and thus corresponding on-disk
-          inode, i.e. mft record, which is in a dirty PAGE_CACHE_PAGE belonging
-          to the table of inodes, i.e. $MFT, inode 0.
-          What happens:
-          Process 1: sys_sync()/umount()/whatever...  calls
-          __sync_single_inode() for $MFT -> do_writepages() -> write_page for
-          the dirty page containing the on-disk inode X, the page is now locked
-          -> ntfs_write_mst_block() which clears PageUptodate() on the page to
-          prevent anyone else getting hold of it whilst it does the write out.
-          This is necessary as the on-disk inode needs "fixups" applied before
-          the write to disk which are removed again after the write and
-          PageUptodate is then set again.  It then analyses the page looking
-          for dirty on-disk inodes and when it finds one it calls
-          ntfs_may_write_mft_record() to see if it is safe to write this
-          on-disk inode.  This then calls ilookup5() to check if the
-          corresponding VFS inode is in icache().  This in turn calls ifind()
-          which waits on the inode lock via wait_on_inode whilst holding the
-          global inode_lock.
-          Process 2: pdflush results in a call to __sync_single_inode for the
-          same VFS inode X on the ntfs volume.  This locks the inode (I_LOCK)
-          then calls write-inode -> ntfs_write_inode -> map_mft_record() ->
-          read_cache_page() for the page (in page cache of table of inodes
-          $MFT, inode 0) containing the on-disk inode.  This page has
-          PageUptodate() clear because of Process 1 (see above) so
-          read_cache_page() blocks when it tries to take the page lock for the
-          page so it can call ntfs_read_page().
-          Thus Process 1 is holding the page lock on the page containing the
-          on-disk inode X and it is waiting on the inode X to be unlocked in
-          ifind() so it can write the page out and then unlock the page.
-          And Process 2 is holding the inode lock on inode X and is waiting for
-          the page to be unlocked so it can call ntfs_readpage() or discover
-          that Process 1 set PageUptodate() again and use the page.
-          Thus we have a deadlock due to ifind() waiting on the inode lock.
-          The solution: The fix is to use the newly introduced
-          ilookup5_nowait() which does not wait on the inode's lock and hence
-          avoids the deadlock.  This is safe as we do not care about the VFS
-          inode and only use the fact that it is in the VFS inode cache and the
-          fact that the vfs and ntfs inodes are one struct in memory to find
-          the ntfs inode in memory if present.  Also, the ntfs inode has its
-          own locking so it does not matter if the vfs inode is locked.
-        - Fix bug in mft record writing where we forgot to set the device in
-          the buffers when mapping them after the VM had discarded them.
-          Thanks to Martin MOKREJÅ for the bug report.
-
-2.1.22 - Many bug and race fixes and error handling improvements.
-
-        - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate().
-        - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to return an error code
-          instead of void and provide a helper ntfs_truncate_vfs() for the
-          vfs ->truncate method.
-        - Add a new ntfs inode flag NInoTruncateFailed() and modify
-          fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to set and clear it appropriately.
-        - Fix min_size and max_size definitions in ATTR_DEF structure in
-          fs/ntfs/layout.h to be signed.
-        - Add attribute definition handling helpers to fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]:
-          ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check(), ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident(), and
-          ntfs_attr_can_be_resident(), which in turn use the new private helper
-          ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef().
-        - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty(), take the
-          mapping->private_lock around the dirtying of the buffer heads
-          analagous to the way it is done in __set_page_dirty_buffers().
-        - Ensure the mft record size does not exceed the PAGE_CACHE_SIZE at
-          mount time as this cannot work with the current implementation.
-        - Check for location of attribute name and improve error handling in
-          general in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() and friends.
-        - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage(), if the page is fully outside
-          i_size, i.e. race with truncate, invalidate the buffers on the page
-          so that they become freeable and hence the page does not leak.
-        - Remove unused function fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_merge().  (Adrian
-          Bunk)
-        - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_find() that resulted in
-          a NULL pointer dereference in the error code path when a corrupt
-          attribute was found.  (Thanks to Domen Puncer for the bug report.)
-        - Add MODULE_VERSION() to fs/ntfs/super.c.
-        - Make several functions and variables static.  (Adrian Bunk)
-        - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() so it allocates
-          buffers for the page if they are not present and then marks the
-          buffers belonging to the ntfs record dirty.  This causes the buffers
-          to become busy and hence they are safe from removal until the page
-          has been written out.
-        - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find() in the
-          error handling code path that resulted in a BUG() due to trying to
-          unmap an extent mft record when the mapping of it had failed and it
-          thus was not mapped.  (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for the bug report.)
-        - Drop the runlist lock after the vcn has been read in
-          fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::__ntfs_cluster_free().
-        - Rewrite handling of multi sector transfer errors.  We now do not set
-          PageError() when such errors are detected in the async i/o handler
-          fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_end_buffer_async_read().  All users of mst
-          protected attributes now check the magic of each ntfs record as they
-          use it and act appropriately.  This has the effect of making errors
-          granular per ntfs record rather than per page which solves the case
-          where we cannot access any of the ntfs records in a page when a
-          single one of them had an mst error.  (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for
-          the bug report.)
-        - Fix error handling in fs/ntfs/quota.c::ntfs_mark_quotas_out_of_date()
-          where we failed to release i_mutex on the $Quota/$Q attribute inode.
-        - Fix bug in handling of bad inodes in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup().
-        - Add mapping of unmapped buffers to all remaining code paths, i.e.
-          fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(), mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror(),
-          and write_mft_record_nolock().  From now on we require that the
-          complete runlist for the mft mirror is always mapped into memory.
-        - Add creation of buffers to fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror().
-        - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}_block().
-        - Cleanup fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}page() since we know that a
-          resident attribute will be smaller than a page which makes the code
-          simpler.  Also make the code more tolerant to concurrent ->truncate.
-
-2.1.21 - Fix some races and bugs, rewrite mft write code, add mft allocator.
-
-        - Implement extent mft record deallocation
-          fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_extent_mft_record_free().
-        - Splitt runlist related functions off from attrib.[hc] to runlist.[hc].
-        - Add vol->mft_data_pos and initialize it at mount time.
-        - Rename init_runlist() to ntfs_init_runlist(), ntfs_vcn_to_lcn() to
-          ntfs_rl_vcn_to_lcn(), decompress_mapping_pairs() to
-          ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress(), ntfs_merge_runlists() to
-          ntfs_runlists_merge() and adapt all callers.
-        - Add fs/ntfs/runlist.[hc]::ntfs_get_nr_significant_bytes(),
-          ntfs_get_size_for_mapping_pairs(), ntfs_write_significant_bytes(),
-          and ntfs_mapping_pairs_build(), adapted from libntfs.
-        - Make fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() not
-          static and add a declaration for it to lcnalloc.h.
-        - Add fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.h::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl() which is a static
-          inline wrapper for ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() which takes the
-          cluster bitmap lock for the duration of the call.
-        - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_record_resize().
-        - Implement the equivalent of memset() for an ntfs attribute in
-          fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_set() and switch
-          fs/ntfs/logfile.c::ntfs_empty_logfile() to using it.
-        - Remove unnecessary casts from LCN_* constants.
-        - Implement fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_truncate_nolock().
-        - Add MFT_RECORD_OLD as a copy of MFT_RECORD in fs/ntfs/layout.h and
-          change MFT_RECORD to contain the NTFS 3.1+ specific fields.
-        - Add a helper function fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which
-          marks all buffers belonging to an ntfs record dirty, followed by
-          marking the page the ntfs record is in dirty and also marking the vfs
-          inode containing the ntfs record dirty (I_DIRTY_PAGES).
-        - Switch fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to using the
-          new helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and remove the no
-          longer needed fs/ntfs/index.[hc]::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty().
-        - Move ntfs_{un,}map_page() from ntfs.h to aops.h and fix resulting
-          include errors.
-        - Move the typedefs for runlist_element and runlist from types.h to
-          runlist.h and fix resulting include errors.
-        - Remove unused {__,}format_mft_record() from fs/ntfs/mft.c.
-        - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::__mark_mft_record_dirty() to use the helper
-          mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which also changes the behaviour in that we
-          now set the buffers belonging to the mft record dirty as well as the
-          page itself.
-        - Update fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and sync_mft_mirror()
-          to cope with the fact that there now are dirty buffers in mft pages.
-        - Update fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode() to also use the helper
-          mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and thus to set the buffers belonging to the
-          mft record dirty as well as the page itself.
-        - Fix compiler warnings on x86-64 in fs/ntfs/dir.c.  (Randy Dunlap,
-          slightly modified by me)
-        - Add fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record() which fails with -EALREADY if
-          the mft record is already locked and otherwise behaves the same way
-          as fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_mft_record().
-        - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() so that it only
-          writes the mft record if the buffers belonging to it are dirty.
-          Otherwise we assume that it was written out by other means already.
-        - Attempting to write outside initialized size is _not_ a bug so remove
-          the bug check from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block().  It is in
-          fact required to write outside initialized size when preparing to
-          extend the initialized size.
-        - Map the page instead of using page_address() before writing to it in
-          fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mft_writepage().
-        - Provide exclusion between opening an inode / mapping an mft record
-          and accessing the mft record in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage()
-          by setting the page not uptodate throughout ntfs_mft_writepage().
-        - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block()
-          to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied.
-        - Add the helper fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_may_write_mft_record() which
-          checks if an mft record may be written out safely obtaining any
-          necessary locks in the process.  This is used by
-          fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block().
-        - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to also work for
-          writing mft records and improve its error handling in the process.
-          Now if any of the records in the page fail to be written out, all
-          other records will be written out instead of aborting completely.
-        - Remove ntfs_mft_aops and update all users to use ntfs_mst_aops.
-        - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to set the
-          ntfs_mst_aops for all inodes which are NInoMstProtected() and
-          ntfs_aops for all other inodes.
-        - Rename fs/ntfs/mft.c::sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() to
-          ntfs_sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() and change their parameters so they
-          no longer require an ntfs inode to be present.  Update all callers.
-        - Cleanup the error handling in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror().
-        - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror()
-          to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied.
-        - Remove the no longer needed fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage() and
-          fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record().
-        - Fix callers of fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to call it
-          with the ntfs inode which contains the page rather than the ntfs
-          inode the mft record of which is in the page.
-        - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by moving the
-          index inode bitmap inode release code from there to
-          fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_clear_big_inode().  (Thanks to Christoph
-          Hellwig for spotting this.)
-        - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by taking the
-          inode semaphore around the code that sets ni->itype.index.bmp_ino to
-          NULL and reorganize the code to optimize it a bit.  (Thanks to
-          Christoph Hellwig for spotting this.)
-        - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to no longer take the
-          ntfs inode as a parameter as this is confusing and misleading and the
-          needed ntfs inode is available via NTFS_I(page->mapping->host).
-          Adapt all callers to this change.
-        - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and
-          fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to only check the dirty state
-          of the first buffer in a record and to take this as the ntfs record
-          dirty state.  We cannot look at the dirty state for subsequent
-          buffers because we might be racing with
-          fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty().
-        - Move the static inline ntfs_init_big_inode() from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
-          inode.h and make fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_init_inode() non-static and
-          add a declaration for it to inode.h.  Fix some compilation issues
-          that resulted due to #includes and header file interdependencies.
-        - Simplify setup of i_mode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode().
-        - Add helpers fs/ntfs/layout.h::MK_MREF() and MK_LE_MREF().
-        - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() to only verify the mft
-          record sequence number if it is specified (i.e. not zero).
-        - Add fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::ntfs_mft_record_alloc() and various helper
-          functions used by it.
-        - Update Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt with instructions on how to
-          use the Device-Mapper driver with NTFS ftdisk/LDM raid.  This removes
-          the linear raid problem with the Software RAID / MD driver when one
-          or more of the devices has an odd number of sectors.
-
-2.1.20 - Fix two stupid bugs introduced in 2.1.18 release.
-
-        - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_reinit_search_ctx()
-          where we did not clear ctx->al_entry but it was still set due to
-          changes in ntfs_attr_lookup() and ntfs_external_attr_find() in
-          particular.
-        - Fix another stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find()
-          where we forgot to unmap the extent mft record when we had finished
-          enumerating an attribute which caused a bug check to trigger when the
-          VFS calls ->clear_inode.
-
-2.1.19 - Many cleanups, improvements, and a minor bug fix.
-
-        - Update ->setattr (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) to refuse to
-          change the uid, gid, and mode of an inode as we do not support NTFS
-          ACLs yet.
-        - Remove BKL use from ntfs_setattr() syncing up with the rest of the
-          kernel.
-        - Get rid of the ugly transparent union in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir()
-          and ntfs_filldir() as per suggestion from Al Viro.
-        - Change '\0' and L'\0' to simply 0 as per advice from Linus Torvalds.
-        - Update ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) to check if the
-          inode size has changed and to only output an error if so.
-        - Rename fs/ntfs/attrib.h::attribute_value_length() to ntfs_attr_size().
-        - Add le{16,32,64} as well as sle{16,32,64} data types to
-          fs/ntfs/types.h.
-        - Change ntfschar to be le16 instead of u16 in fs/ntfs/types.h.
-        - Add le versions of VCN, LCN, and LSN called leVCN, leLCN, and leLSN,
-          respectively, to fs/ntfs/types.h.
-        - Update endianness conversion macros in fs/ntfs/endian.h to use the
-          new types as appropriate.
-        - Do proper type casting when using sle64_to_cpup() in fs/ntfs/dir.c
-          and index.c.
-        - Add leMFT_REF data type to fs/ntfs/layout.h.
-        - Update all NTFS header files with the new little endian data types.
-          Affected files are fs/ntfs/layout.h, logfile.h, and time.h.
-        - Do proper type casting when using ntfs_is_*_recordp() in
-          fs/ntfs/logfile.c, mft.c, and super.c. 
-        - Fix all the sparse bitwise warnings.  Had to change all the typedef
-          enums storing little endian values to simple enums plus a typedef for
-          the datatype to make sparse happy.
-        - Fix a bug found by the new sparse bitwise warnings where the default
-          upcase table was defined as a pointer to wchar_t rather than ntfschar
-          in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h and super.c.
-        - Change {const_,}cpu_to_le{16,32}(0) to just 0 as suggested by Al Viro.
-
-2.1.18 - Fix scheduling latencies at mount time as well as an endianness bug.
-
-        - Remove vol->nr_mft_records as it was pretty meaningless and optimize
-          the calculation of total/free inodes as used by statfs().
-        - Fix scheduling latencies in ntfs_fill_super() by dropping the BKL
-          because the code itself is using the ntfs_lock semaphore which
-          provides safe locking.  (Ingo Molnar)
-        - Fix a potential bug in fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() that
-          could occur in the future for when we start closing/freeing extent
-          inodes if we don't set base_ni->ext.extent_ntfs_inos to NULL after
-          we free it.
-        - Rename {find,lookup}_attr() to ntfs_attr_{find,lookup}() as well as
-          find_external_attr() to ntfs_external_attr_find() to cleanup the
-          namespace a bit and to be more consistent with libntfs.
-        - Rename {{re,}init,get,put}_attr_search_ctx() to
-          ntfs_attr_{{re,}init,get,put}_search_ctx() as well as the type
-          attr_search_context to ntfs_attr_search_ctx.
-        - Force use of ntfs_attr_find() in ntfs_attr_lookup() when searching
-          for the attribute list attribute itself.
-        - Fix endianness bug in ntfs_external_attr_find().
-        - Change ntfs_{external_,}attr_find() to return 0 on success, -ENOENT
-          if the attribute is not found, and -EIO on real error.  In the case
-          of -ENOENT, the search context is updated to describe the attribute
-          before which the attribute being searched for would need to be
-          inserted if such an action were to be desired and in the case of
-          ntfs_external_attr_find() the search context is also updated to
-          indicate the attribute list entry before which the attribute list
-          entry of the attribute being searched for would need to be inserted
-          if such an action were to be desired.  Also make ntfs_find_attr()
-          static and remove its prototype from attrib.h as it is not used
-          anywhere other than attrib.c.  Update ntfs_attr_lookup() and all
-          callers of ntfs_{external,}attr_{find,lookup}() for the new return
-          values.
-        - Minor cleanup of fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_init_locked_inode().
-
-2.1.17 - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths and other updates.
-
-        - Implement bitmap modification code (fs/ntfs/bitmap.[hc]).  This
-          includes functions to set/clear a single bit or a run of bits.
-        - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_find_vcn() which returns the locked
-          runlist element containing a particular vcn.  It also takes care of
-          mapping any needed runlist fragments.
-        - Implement cluster (de-)allocation code (fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.[hc]).
-        - Load attribute definition table from $AttrDef at mount time.
-        - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths involving (de)allocation of
-          the default and volume upcase tables.
-        - Remove ntfs_nr_mounts as it is no longer used.
-
-2.1.16 - Implement access time updates, file sync, async io, and read/writev.
-
-        - Add support for readv/writev and aio_read/aio_write (fs/ntfs/file.c).
-          This is done by setting the appropriate file operations pointers to
-          the generic helper functions provided by mm/filemap.c.
-        - Implement fsync, fdatasync, and msync both for files (fs/ntfs/file.c)
-          and directories (fs/ntfs/dir.c).
-        - Add support for {a,m,c}time updates to inode.c::ntfs_write_inode().
-          Note, except for the root directory and any other system files opened
-          by the user, the system files will not have their access times
-          updated as they are only accessed at the inode level an hence the
-          file level functions which cause the times to be updated are never
-          invoked.
-
-2.1.15 - Invalidate quotas when (re)mounting read-write.
-
-        - Add new element itype.index.collation_rule to the ntfs inode
-          structure and set it appropriately in ntfs_read_locked_inode().
-        - Implement a new inode type "index" to allow efficient access to the
-          indices found in various system files and adapt inode handling
-          accordingly (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]).  An index inode is essentially an
-          attribute inode (NInoAttr() is true) with an attribute type of
-          AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION.  As such, it is no longer allowed to call
-          ntfs_attr_iget() with an attribute type of AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION as
-          there would be no way to distinguish between normal attribute inodes
-          and index inodes.  The function to obtain an index inode is
-          ntfs_index_iget() and it uses the helper function
-          ntfs_read_locked_index_inode().  Note, we do not overload
-          ntfs_attr_iget() as indices consist of multiple attributes so using
-          ntfs_attr_iget() to obtain an index inode would be confusing.
-        - Ensure that there is no overflow when doing page->index <<
-          PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT by casting page->index to s64 in fs/ntfs/aops.c.
-        - Use atomic kmap instead of kmap() in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page()
-          and ntfs_read_block().
-        - Use case sensitive attribute lookups instead of case insensitive ones.
-        - Lock all page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes while
-          accessing them to ensure we never see corrupt data while the page is
-          under writeout.
-        - Add framework for generic ntfs collation (fs/ntfs/collation.[hc]).
-          We have ntfs_is_collation_rule_supported() to check if the collation
-          rule you want to use is supported and ntfs_collation() which actually
-          collates two data items.  We currently only support COLLATION_BINARY
-          and COLLATION_NTOFS_ULONG but support for other collation rules will
-          be added as the need arises.
-        - Add a new type, ntfs_index_context, to allow retrieval of an index
-          entry using the corresponding index key.  To get an index context,
-          use ntfs_index_ctx_get() and to release it, use ntfs_index_ctx_put().
-          This also adds a new slab cache for the index contexts.  To lookup a
-          key in an index inode, use ntfs_index_lookup().  After modifying an
-          index entry, call ntfs_index_entry_flush_dcache_page() followed by
-          ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to ensure the changes are written out
-          to disk.  For details see fs/ntfs/index.[hc].  Note, at present, if
-          an index entry is in the index allocation attribute rather than the
-          index root attribute it will not be written out (you will get a
-          warning message about discarded changes instead).
-        - Load the quota file ($Quota) and check if quota tracking is enabled
-          and if so, mark the quotas out of date.  This causes windows to
-          rescan the volume on boot and update all quota entries.
-        - Add a set_page_dirty address space operation for ntfs_m[fs]t_aops.
-          It is simply set to __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() to make sure that
-          running set_page_dirty() on a page containing mft/ntfs records will
-          not affect the dirty state of the page buffers.
-        - Add fs/ntfs/index.c::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() which sets all
-          buffers that are inside the ntfs record in the page dirty after which
-          it sets the page dirty.  This allows ->writepage to only write the
-          dirty index records rather than having to write all the records in
-          the page.  Modify fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to
-          use this rather than __set_page_dirty_nobuffers().
-        - Implement fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() which enables the
-          writing of page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes
-          like the index allocation attribute in directory indices and other
-          indices like $Quota/$Q, etc.  This means that the quota is now marked
-          out of date on all volumes rather than only on ones where the quota
-          defaults entry is in the index root attribute of the $Quota/$Q index.
-
-2.1.14 - Fix an NFSd caused deadlock reported by several users.
-
-        - Modify fs/ntfs/ntfs_readdir() to copy the index root attribute value
-          to a buffer so that we can put the search context and unmap the mft
-          record before calling the filldir() callback.  We need to do this
-          because of NFSd which calls ->lookup() from its filldir callback()
-          and this causes NTFS to deadlock as ntfs_lookup() maps the mft record
-          of the directory and since ntfs_readdir() has got it mapped already
-          ntfs_lookup() deadlocks.
-
-2.1.13 - Enable overwriting of resident files and housekeeping of system files.
-
-        - Implement writing of mft records (fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]), which includes
-          keeping the mft mirror in sync with the mft when mirrored mft records
-          are written.  The functions are write_mft_record{,_nolock}().  The
-          implementation is quite rudimentary for now with lots of things not
-          implemented yet but I am not sure any of them can actually occur so
-          I will wait for people to hit each one and only then implement it.
-        - Commit open system inodes at umount time.  This should make it
-          virtually impossible for sync_mft_mirror_umount() to ever be needed.
-        - Implement ->write_inode (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode()) for the
-          ntfs super operations.  This gives us inode writing via the VFS inode
-          dirty code paths.  Note:  Access time updates are not implemented yet.
-        - Implement fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::{,__}mark_mft_record_dirty() and make
-          fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and ntfs_commit_write() use it, thus
-          finally enabling resident file overwrite!  (-8  This also includes a
-          placeholder for ->writepage (ntfs_mft_writepage()), which for now
-          just redirties the page and returns.  Also, at umount time, we for
-          now throw away all mft data page cache pages after the last call to
-          ntfs_commit_inode() in the hope that all inodes will have been
-          written out by then and hence no dirty (meta)data will be lost.  We
-          also check for this case and emit an error message telling the user
-          to run chkdsk.
-        - Use set_page_writeback() and end_page_writeback() in the resident
-          attribute code path of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() otherwise
-          the radix-tree tag PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the
-          page is clean.
-        - Implement ntfs_mft_writepage() so it now checks if any of the mft
-          records in the page are dirty and if so redirties the page and
-          returns.  Otherwise it just returns (after doing set_page_writeback(),
-          unlock_page(), end_page_writeback() or the radix-tree tag
-          PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the page is clean), thus
-          alowing the VM to do with the page as it pleases.  Also, at umount
-          time, now only throw away dirty mft (meta)data pages if dirty inodes
-          are present and ask the user to email us if they see this happening.
-        - Add functions ntfs_{clear,set}_volume_flags(), to modify the volume
-          information flags (fs/ntfs/super.c).
-        - Mark the volume dirty when (re)mounting read-write and mark it clean
-          when unmounting or remounting read-only.  If any volume errors are
-          found, the volume is left marked dirty to force chkdsk to run.
-        - Add code to set the NT4 compatibility flag when (re)mounting
-          read-write for newer NTFS versions but leave it commented out for now
-          since we do not make any modifications that are NTFS 1.2 specific yet
-          and since setting this flag breaks Captive-NTFS which is not nice.
-          This code must be enabled once we start writing NTFS 1.2 specific
-          changes otherwise Windows NTFS driver might crash / cause corruption.
-
-2.1.12 - Fix the second fix to the decompression engine and some cleanups.
-
-        - Add a new address space operations struct, ntfs_mst_aops, for mst
-          protected attributes.  This is because the default ntfs_aops do not
-          make sense with mst protected data and were they to write anything to
-          such an attribute they would cause data corruption so we provide
-          ntfs_mst_aops which does not have any write related operations set.
-        - Cleanup dirty ntfs inode handling (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]) which also
-          includes an adapted ntfs_commit_inode() and an implementation of
-          ntfs_write_inode() which for now just cleans dirty inodes without
-          writing them (it does emit a warning that this is happening).
-        - Undo the second decompression engine fix (see 2.1.9 release ChangeLog
-          entry) as it was only fixing a theoretical bug but at the same time
-          it badly broke the handling of sparse and uncompressed compression
-          blocks.
-
-2.1.11 - Driver internal cleanups.
-
-        - Only build logfile.o if building the driver with read-write support.
-        - Really final white space cleanups.
-        - Use generic_ffs() instead of ffs() in logfile.c which allows the
-          log_page_size variable to be optimized by gcc into a constant.
-        - Rename uchar_t to ntfschar everywhere as uchar_t is unsigned 1-byte
-          char as defined by POSIX and as found on some systems.
-
-2.1.10 - Force read-only (re)mounting of volumes with unsupported volume flags.
-
-        - Finish off the white space cleanups (remove trailing spaces, etc).
-        - Clean up ntfs_fill_super() and ntfs_read_inode_mount() by removing
-          the kludges around the first iget().  Instead of (re)setting ->s_op
-          we have the $MFT inode set up by explicit new_inode() / set ->i_ino /
-          insert_inode_hash() / call ntfs_read_inode_mount() directly.  This
-          kills the need for second super_operations and allows to return error
-          from ntfs_read_inode_mount() without resorting to ugly "poisoning"
-          tricks.  (Al Viro)
-        - Force read-only (re)mounting if any of the following bits are set in
-          the volume information flags:
-                VOLUME_IS_DIRTY, VOLUME_RESIZE_LOG_FILE,
-                VOLUME_UPGRADE_ON_MOUNT, VOLUME_DELETE_USN_UNDERWAY,
-                VOLUME_REPAIR_OBJECT_ID, VOLUME_MODIFIED_BY_CHKDSK
-          To make this easier we define VOLUME_MUST_MOUNT_RO_MASK with all the
-          above bits set so the test is made easy.
-
-2.1.9 - Fix two bugs in decompression engine.
-
-        - Fix a bug where we would not always detect that we have reached the
-          end of a compression block because we were ending at minus one byte
-          which is effectively the same as being at the end.  The fix is to
-          check whether the uncompressed buffer has been fully filled and if so
-          we assume we have reached the end of the compression block.  A big
-          thank you to Marcin Gibuła for the bug report, the assistance in
-          tracking down the bug and testing the fix.
-        - Fix a possible bug where when a compressed read is truncated to the
-          end of the file, the offset inside the last page was not truncated.
-
-2.1.8 - Handle $MFT mirror and $LogFile, improve time handling, and cleanups.
-
-        - Use get_bh() instead of manual atomic_inc() in fs/ntfs/compress.c.
-        - Modify fs/ntfs/time.c::ntfs2utc(), get_current_ntfs_time(), and
-          utc2ntfs() to work with struct timespec instead of time_t on the
-          Linux UTC time side thus preserving the full precision of the NTFS
-          time and only loosing up to 99 nano-seconds in the Linux UTC time.
-        - Move fs/ntfs/time.c to fs/ntfs/time.h and make the time functions
-          static inline.
-        - Remove unused ntfs_dirty_inode().
-        - Cleanup super operations declaration in fs/ntfs/super.c.
-        - Wrap flush_dcache_mft_record_page() in #ifdef NTFS_RW.
-        - Add NInoTestSetFoo() and NInoTestClearFoo() macro magic to
-          fs/ntfs/inode.h and use it to declare NInoTest{Set,Clear}Dirty.
-        - Move typedefs for ntfs_attr and test_t from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
-          fs/ntfs/inode.h so they can be used elsewhere.
-        - Determine the mft mirror size as the number of mirrored mft records
-          and store it in ntfs_volume->mftmirr_size (fs/ntfs/super.c).
-        - Load the mft mirror at mount time and compare the mft records stored
-          in it to the ones in the mft.  Force a read-only mount if the two do
-          not match (fs/ntfs/super.c).
-        - Fix type casting related warnings on 64-bit architectures.  Thanks
-          to Meelis Roos for reporting them.
-        - Move %L to %ll as %L is floating point and %ll is integer which is
-          what we want.
-        - Read the journal ($LogFile) and determine if the volume has been
-          shutdown cleanly and force a read-only mount if not (fs/ntfs/super.c
-          and fs/ntfs/logfile.c).  This is a little bit of a crude check in
-          that we only look at the restart areas and not at the actual log
-          records so that there will be a very small number of cases where we
-          think that a volume is dirty when in fact it is clean.  This should
-          only affect volumes that have not been shutdown cleanly and did not
-          have any pending, non-check-pointed i/o.
-        - If the $LogFile indicates a clean shutdown and a read-write (re)mount
-          is requested, empty $LogFile by overwriting it with 0xff bytes to
-          ensure that Windows cannot cause data corruption by replaying a stale
-          journal after Linux has written to the volume.
-
-2.1.7 - Enable NFS exporting of mounted NTFS volumes.
-
-        - Set i_generation in the VFS inode from the seq_no of the NTFS inode.
-        - Make ntfs_lookup() NFS export safe, i.e. use d_splice_alias(), etc.
-        - Implement ->get_dentry() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_dentry() as the
-          default doesn't allow inode number 0 which is a valid inode on NTFS
-          and even if it did allow that it uses iget() instead of ntfs_iget()
-          which makes it useless for us.
-        - Implement ->get_parent() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_parent() as the
-          default just returns -EACCES which is not very useful.
-        - Define export operations (->s_export_op) for NTFS (ntfs_export_ops)
-          and set them up in the super block at mount time (super.c) this
-          allows mounted NTFS volumes to be exported via NFS.
-        - Add missing return -EOPNOTSUPP; in
-          fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write().
-        - Enforce no atime and no dir atime updates at mount/remount time as
-          they are not implemented yet anyway.
-        - Move a few assignments in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::load_attribute_list() to
-          after a NULL check.  Thanks to Dave Jones for pointing this out.
-
-2.1.6 - Fix minor bug in handling of compressed directories.
-
-        - Fix bug in handling of compressed directories.  A compressed
-          directory is not really compressed so when we set the ->i_blocks
-          field of a compressed directory inode we were setting it from the
-          non-existing field ni->itype.compressed.size which gave random
-          results...  For directories we now always use ni->allocated_size.
-
-2.1.5 - Fix minor bug in attribute list attribute handling.
-
-        - Fix bug in attribute list handling.  Actually it is not as much a bug
-          as too much protection in that we were not allowing attribute lists
-          which waste space on disk while Windows XP clearly allows it and in
-          fact creates such attribute lists so our driver was failing.
-        - Update NTFS documentation ready for 2.6 kernel release.
-
-2.1.4 - Reduce compiler requirements.
-
-        - Remove all uses of unnamed structs and unions in the driver to make
-          old and newer gcc versions happy. Makes it a bit uglier IMO but at
-          least people will stop hassling me about it.
-
-2.1.3 - Important bug fixes in corner cases.
-
-        - super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector(): Correct the check for 64-bit
-          clusters. (Philipp Thomas)
-        - attrib.c::load_attribute_list(): Fix bug when initialized_size is a
-          multiple of the block_size but not the cluster size. (Szabolcs
-          Szakacsits)
-
-2.1.2 - Important bug fixes aleviating the hangs in statfs.
-
-        - Fix buggy free cluster and free inode determination logic.
-
-2.1.1 - Minor updates.
-
-        - Add handling for initialized_size != data_size in compressed files.
-        - Reduce function local stack usage from 0x3d4 bytes to just noise in
-          fs/ntfs/upcase.c. (Randy Dunlap)
-        - Remove compiler warnings for newer gcc.
-        - Pages are no longer kmapped by mm/filemap.c::generic_file_write()
-          around calls to ->{prepare,commit}_write.  Adapt NTFS appropriately
-          in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() by using
-          kmap_atomic(KM_USER0).
-
-2.1.0 - First steps towards write support: implement file overwrite.
-
-        - Add configuration option for developmental write support with an
-          appropriately scary configuration help text.
-        - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and its
-          helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_block(). This enables mmap(2) based
-          overwriting of existing files on ntfs. Note: Resident files are
-          only written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so
-          avoid writing to files smaller than about 1kiB.
-        - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_write(), its
-          helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() and their
-          counterparts, fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_write(), and
-          fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write(), respectively. Also,
-          add generic_file_write() to the ntfs file operations (fs/ntfs/file.c).
-          This enables write(2) based overwriting of existing files on ntfs.
-          Note: As with mmap(2) based overwriting, resident files are only
-          written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so avoid
-          writing to files smaller than about 1kiB.
-        - Implement ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) and
-          ->setattr() (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) inode operations for
-          files with the purpose of intercepting and aborting all i_size
-          changes which we do not support yet. ntfs_truncate() actually only
-          emits a warning message but AFAICS our interception of i_size changes
-          elsewhere means ntfs_truncate() never gets called for i_size changes.
-          It is only called from generic_file_write() when we fail in
-          ntfs_prepare_{,nonresident_}write() in order to discard any
-          instantiated buffers beyond i_size. Thus i_size is not actually
-          changed so our warning message is enough. Unfortunately it is not
-          possible to easily determine if i_size is being changed or not hence
-          we just emit an appropriately worded error message.
-
-2.0.25 - Small bug fixes and cleanups.
-
-        - Unlock the page in an out of memory error code path in
-          fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
-        - If fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page() is called on an uptodate page,
-          just unlock the page and return. (This can happen due to ->writepage
-          clearing PageUptodate() during write out of MstProtected()
-          attributes.
-        - Remove leaked write code again.
-
-2.0.24 - Cleanups.
-
-        - Treat BUG_ON() as ASSERT() not VERIFY(), i.e. do not use side effects
-          inside BUG_ON(). (Adam J. Richter)
-        - Split logical OR expressions inside BUG_ON() into individual BUG_ON()
-          calls for improved debugging. (Adam J. Richter)
-        - Add errors flag to the ntfs volume state, accessed via
-          NVol{,Set,Clear}Errors(vol).
-        - Do not allow read-write remounts of read-only volumes with errors.
-        - Clarify comment for ntfs file operation sendfile which was added by
-          Christoph Hellwig a while ago (just using generic_file_sendfile())
-          to say that ntfs ->sendfile is only used for the case where the
-          source data is on the ntfs partition and the destination is
-          somewhere else, i.e. nothing we need to concern ourselves with.
-        - Add generic_file_write() as our ntfs file write operation.
-
-2.0.23 - Major bug fixes (races, deadlocks, non-i386 architectures).
-
-        - Massive internal locking changes to mft record locking. Fixes lock
-          recursion and replaces the mrec_lock read/write semaphore with a
-          mutex. Also removes the now superfluous mft_count. This fixes several
-          race conditions and deadlocks, especially in the future write code.
-        - Fix ntfs over loopback for compressed files by adding an
-          optimization barrier. (gcc was screwing up otherwise ?)
-        - Miscellaneous cleanups all over the code and a fix or two in error
-          handling code paths.
-        Thanks go to Christoph Hellwig for pointing out the following two:
-        - Remove now unused function fs/ntfs/malloc.h::vmalloc_nofs().
-        - Fix ntfs_free() for ia64 and parisc by checking for VMALLOC_END, too.
-
-2.0.22 - Cleanups, mainly to ntfs_readdir(), and use C99 initializers.
-
-        - Change fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_reddir() to only read/write ->f_pos once
-          at entry/exit respectively.
-        - Use C99 initializers for structures.
-        - Remove unused variable blocks from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
-
-2.0.21 - Check for, and refuse to work with too large files/directories/volumes.
-
-        - Limit volume size at mount time to 2TiB on architectures where
-          unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector()).
-          This is the most we can do without overflowing the 32-bit limit of
-          the block device size imposed on us by sb_bread() and sb_getblk()
-          for the time being.
-        - Limit file/directory size at open() time to 16TiB on architectures
-          where unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/file.c::ntfs_file_open() and
-          fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_dir_open()). This is the most we can do without
-          overflowing the page cache page index.
-
-2.0.20 - Support non-resident directory index bitmaps, fix page leak in readdir.
-
-        - Move the directory index bitmap to use an attribute inode instead of
-          having special fields for it inside the ntfs inode structure. This
-          means that the index bitmaps now use the page cache for i/o, too,
-          and also as a side effect we get support for non-resident index
-          bitmaps for free.
-        - Simplify/cleanup error handling in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir() and
-          fix a page leak that manifested itself in some cases.
-        - Add fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode(), which we need to release the
-          index bitmap inode on the final iput().
-
-2.0.19 - Fix race condition, improvements, and optimizations in i/o interface.
-
-        - Apply block optimization added to fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block()
-          to fs/ntfs/compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() as well.
-        - Drop the "file" from ntfs_file_read_compressed_block().
-        - Rename fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_enb_buffer_read_async() to
-          ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() (more like the fs/buffer.c counterpart).
-        - Update ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() with the improved logic from
-          its updated counterpart fs/buffer.c::end_buffer_async_read(). Apply
-          further logic improvements to better determine when we set PageError.
-        - Update submission of buffers in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to
-          check for the buffers being uptodate first in line with the updated
-          fs/buffer.c::block_read_full_page(). This plugs a small race
-          condition.
-
-2.0.18 - Fix race condition in reading of compressed files.
-
-        - There was a narrow window between checking a buffer head for being
-          uptodate and locking it in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block(). We now
-          lock the buffer and then check whether it is uptodate or not.
-
-2.0.17 - Cleanups and optimizations - shrinking the ToDo list.
-
-        - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to return an error
-          code and update callers, i.e. ntfs_iget(), to pass that error code
-          up instead of just using -EIO.
-        - Modifications to super.c to ensure that both mount and remount
-          cannot set any write related options when the driver is compiled
-          read-only.
-        - Optimize block resolution in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to
-          cache the current runlist element. This should improve performance
-          when reading very large and/or very fragmented data.
-
-2.0.16 - Convert access to $MFT/$BITMAP to attribute inode API.
-
-        - Fix a stupid bug introduced in 2.0.15 where we were unmapping the
-          wrong inode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_attr_iget().
-        - Fix debugging check in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
-        - Convert $MFT/$BITMAP access to attribute inode API and remove all
-          remnants of the ugly mftbmp address space and operations hack. This
-          means we finally have only one readpage function as well as only one
-          async io completion handler. Yey! The mft bitmap is now just an
-          attribute inode and is accessed from vol->mftbmp_ino just as if it
-          were a normal file. Fake inodes rule. (-:
-
-2.0.15 - Fake inodes based attribute i/o via the pagecache, fixes and cleanups.
-
-        - Fix silly bug in fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_options() which was causing
-          remounts to fail when the partition had an entry in /etc/fstab and
-          the entry specified the nls= option.
-        - Apply same macro magic used in fs/ntfs/inode.h to fs/ntfs/volume.h to
-          expand all the helper functions NVolFoo(), NVolSetFoo(), and
-          NVolClearFoo().
-        - Move copyright statement from driver initialisation message to
-          module description (fs/super.c). This makes the initialisation
-          message fit on one line and fits in better with rest of kernel.
-        - Update fs/ntfs/attrib.c::map_run_list() to work on both real and
-          attribute inodes, and both for files and directories.
-        - Implement fake attribute inodes allowing all attribute i/o to go via
-          the page cache and to use all the normal vfs/mm functionality:
-          - Add ntfs_attr_iget() and its helper ntfs_read_locked_attr_inode()
-            to fs/ntfs/inode.c.
-          - Add needed cleanup code to ntfs_clear_big_inode().
-        - Merge address space operations for files and directories (aops.c),
-          now just have ntfs_aops:
-          - Rename:
-                end_buffer_read_attr_async() -> ntfs_end_buffer_read_async(),
-                ntfs_attr_read_block()       -> ntfs_read_block(),
-                ntfs_file_read_page()        -> ntfs_readpage().
-          - Rewrite fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_readpage() to work on both real and
-            attribute inodes, and both for files and directories.
-          - Remove obsolete fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage().
-
-2.0.14 - Run list merging code cleanup, minor locking changes, typo fixes.
-
-        - Change fs/ntfs/super.c::ntfs_statfs() to not rely on BKL by moving
-          the locking out of super.c::get_nr_free_mft_records() and taking and
-          dropping the mftbmp_lock rw_semaphore in ntfs_statfs() itself.
-        - Bring attribute runlist merging code (fs/ntfs/attrib.c) in sync with
-          current userspace ntfs library code. This means that if a merge
-          fails the original runlists are always left unmodified instead of
-          being silently corrupted.
-        - Misc typo fixes.
-
-2.0.13 - Use iget5_locked() in preparation for fake inodes and small cleanups.
-
-        - Remove nr_mft_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_mft_records
-          from ntfs_volume structure.
-        - Remove nr_lcn_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_clusters
-          from ntfs_volume structure.
-        - Use iget5_locked() and friends instead of conventional iget(). Wrap
-          the call in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_iget() and update callers of iget()
-          to use ntfs_iget(). Leave only one iget() call at mount time so we
-          don't need an ntfs_iget_mount().
-        - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_new_extent_inode() to take mft_no as an
-          additional argument.
-
-2.0.12 - Initial cleanup of address space operations following 2.0.11 changes.
-
-        - Merge fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_mst_async() and
-          fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_file_async() into one function
-          fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_attr_async() using NInoMstProtected()
-          to determine whether to apply mst fixups or not.
-        - Above change allows merging fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_file_read_block()
-          and fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() into one function
-          fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_attr_read_block(). Also, create a tiny wrapper
-          fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() to transform the parameters from
-          the VFS readpage function prototype to the ntfs_attr_read_block()
-          function prototype.
-
-2.0.11 - Initial preparations for fake inode based attribute i/o.
-
-        - Move definition of ntfs_inode_state_bits to fs/ntfs/inode.h and
-          do some macro magic (adapted from include/linux/buffer_head.h) to
-          expand all the helper functions NInoFoo(), NInoSetFoo(), and
-          NInoClearFoo().
-        - Add new flag to ntfs_inode_state_bits: NI_Sparse.
-        - Add new fields to ntfs_inode structure to allow use of fake inodes
-          for attribute i/o: type, name, name_len. Also add new state bits:
-          NI_Attr, which, if set, indicates the inode is a fake inode, and
-          NI_MstProtected, which, if set, indicates the attribute uses multi
-          sector transfer protection, i.e. fixups need to be applied after
-          reads and before/after writes.
-        - Rename fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_inode() to
-          ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_extent_inode() and update callers.
-        - Use ntfs_clear_extent_inode() in fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_clear_inode()
-          instead of ntfs_destroy_extent_inode().
-        - Cleanup memory deallocations in {__,}ntfs_clear_{,big_}inode().
-        - Make all operations on ntfs inode state bits use the NIno* functions.
-        - Set up the new ntfs inode fields and state bits in
-          fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_inode() and add appropriate cleanup of
-          allocated memory to __ntfs_clear_inode().
-        - Cleanup ntfs_inode structure a bit for better ordering of elements
-          w.r.t. their size to allow better packing of the structure in memory.
-
-2.0.10 - There can only be 2^32 - 1 inodes on an NTFS volume.
-
-        - Add check at mount time to verify that the number of inodes on the
-          volume does not exceed 2^32 - 1, which is the maximum allowed for
-          NTFS according to Microsoft.
-        - Change mft_no member of ntfs_inode structure to be unsigned long.
-          Update all users. This makes ntfs_inode->mft_no just a copy of struct
-          inode->i_ino. But we can't just always use struct inode->i_ino and
-          remove mft_no because extent inodes do not have an attached struct
-          inode.
-
-2.0.9 - Decompression engine now uses a single buffer and other cleanups.
-
-        - Change decompression engine to use a single buffer protected by a
-          spin lock instead of per-CPU buffers. (Rusty Russell)
-        - Do not update cb_pos when handling a partial final page during
-          decompression of a sparse compression block, as the value is later
-          reset without being read/used. (Rusty Russell)
-        - Switch to using the new KM_BIO_SRC_IRQ for atomic kmap()s. (Andrew
-          Morton)
-        - Change buffer size in ntfs_readdir()/ntfs_filldir() to use
-          NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE which makes the buffers almost 1kiB each but
-          it also makes everything safer so it is a good thing.
-        - Miscellaneous minor cleanups to comments.
-
-2.0.8 - Major updates for handling of case sensitivity and dcache aliasing.
-
-        Big thanks go to Al Viro and other inhabitants of #kernel for investing
-        their time to discuss the case sensitivity and dcache aliasing issues.
-
-        - Remove unused source file fs/ntfs/attraops.c.
-        - Remove show_inodes mount option(s), thus dropping support for
-          displaying of short file names.
-        - Remove deprecated mount option posix.
-        - Restore show_sys_files mount option.
-        - Add new mount option case_sensitive, to determine if the driver
-          treats file names as case sensitive or not. If case sensitive, create
-          file names in the POSIX namespace. Otherwise create file names in the
-          LONG/WIN32 namespace. Note, files remain accessible via their short
-          file name, if it exists.
-        - Remove really dumb logic bug in boot sector recovery code.
-        - Fix dcache aliasing issues wrt short/long file names via changes
-          to fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() and
-          fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup():
-          - Add additional argument to ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() in which we
-            return information about the matching file name if the case is not
-            matching or the match is a short file name. See comments above the
-            function definition for details.
-          - Change ntfs_lookup() to only create dcache entries for the correctly
-            cased file name and only for the WIN32 namespace counterpart of DOS
-            namespace file names. This ensures we have only one dentry per
-            directory and also removes all dcache aliasing issues between short
-            and long file names once we add write support. See comments above
-            function for details.
-        - Fix potential 1 byte overflow in fs/ntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_ucstonls().
-
-2.0.7 - Minor cleanups and updates for changes in core kernel code.
-
-        - Remove much of the NULL struct element initializers.
-        - Various updates to make compatible with recent kernels.
-        - Remove defines of MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE and include linux/buffer_head.h
-          in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h instead.
-        - Remove no longer needed KERNEL_VERSION checks. We are now in the
-          kernel proper so they are no longer needed.
-
-2.0.6 - Major bugfix to make compatible with other kernel changes.
-
-        - Initialize the mftbmp address space properly now that there are more
-          fields in the struct address_space. This was leading to hangs and
-          oopses on umount since 2.5.12 because of changes to other parts of
-          the kernel. We probably want a kernel generic init_address_space()
-          function...
-        - Drop BKL from ntfs_readdir() after consultation with Al Viro. The
-          only caller of ->readdir() is vfs_readdir() which holds i_mutex
-          during the call, and i_mutex is sufficient protection against changes
-          in the directory inode (including ->i_size).
-        - Use generic_file_llseek() for directories (as opposed to
-          default_llseek()) as this downs i_mutex instead of the BKL which is
-          what we now need for exclusion against ->f_pos changes considering we
-          no longer take the BKL in ntfs_readdir().
-
-2.0.5 - Major bugfix. Buffer overflow in extent inode handling.
-
-        - No need to set old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as the
-          VFS does so via invocation of deactivate_super() calling
-          fs->fill_super() calling block_kill_super() which does it.
-        - BKL moved from VFS into dir.c::ntfs_readdir(). (Linus Torvalds)
-          -> Do we really need it? I don't think so as we have exclusion on
-          the directory ntfs_inode rw_semaphore mrec_lock. We mmight have to
-          move the ->f_pos accesses under the mrec_lock though. Check this...
-        - Fix really, really, really stupid buffer overflow in extent inode
-          handling in mft.c::map_extent_mft_record().
-
-2.0.4 - Cleanups and updates for kernel 2.5.11.
-
-        - Add documentation on how to use the MD driver to be able to use NTFS
-          stripe and volume sets in Linux and generally cleanup documentation
-          a bit.
-        Remove all uses of kdev_t in favour of struct block_device *:
-        - Change compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() to use
-          sb_getblk() instead of getblk().
-        - Change super.c::ntfs_fill_super() to use bdev_hardsect_size() instead
-          of get_hardsect_size().
-        - No need to get old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as
-          fs/super.c::get_sb_bdev() already does this.
-        - Set bh->b_bdev instead of bh->b_dev throughout aops.c.
-
-2.0.3 - Small bug fixes, cleanups, and performance improvements.
-
-        - Remove some dead code from mft.c.
-        - Optimize readpage and read_block functions throughout aops.c so that
-          only initialized blocks are read. Non-initialized ones have their
-          buffer head mapped, zeroed, and set up to date, without scheduling
-          any i/o. Thanks to Al Viro for advice on how to avoid the device i/o.
-        Thanks go to Andrew Morton for spotting the below:
-        - Fix buglet in allocate_compression_buffers() error code path.
-        - Call flush_dcache_page() after modifying page cache page contents in
-          ntfs_file_readpage().
-        - Check for existence of page buffers throughout aops.c before calling
-          create_empty_buffers(). This happens when an I/O error occurs and the
-          read is retried. (It also happens once writing is implemented so that
-          needed doing anyway but I had left it for later...)
-        - Don't BUG_ON() uptodate and/or mapped buffers throughout aops.c in
-          readpage and read_block functions. Reasoning same as above (i.e. I/O
-          error retries and future write code paths.)
-
-2.0.2 - Minor updates and cleanups.
-
-        - Cleanup: rename mst.c::__post_read_mst_fixup to post_write_mst_fixup
-          and cleanup the code a bit, removing the unused size parameter.
-        - Change default fmask to 0177 and update documentation.
-        - Change attrib.c::get_attr_search_ctx() to return the search context
-          directly instead of taking the address of a pointer. A return value
-          of NULL means the allocation failed. Updated all callers
-          appropriately.
-        - Update to 2.5.9 kernel (preserving backwards compatibility) by
-          replacing all occurences of page->buffers with page_buffers(page).
-        - Fix minor bugs in runlist merging, also minor cleanup.
-        - Updates to bootsector layout and mft mirror contents descriptions.
-        - Small bug fix in error detection in unistr.c and some cleanups.
-        - Grow name buffer allocations in unistr.c in aligned mutlipled of 64
-          bytes.
-
-2.0.1 - Minor updates.
-
-        - Make default umask correspond to documentation.
-        - Improve documentation.
-        - Set default mode to include execute bit. The {u,f,d}mask can be used
-          to take it away if desired. This allows binaries to be executed from
-          a mounted ntfs partition.
-
-2.0.0 - New version number. Remove TNG from the name. Now in the kernel.
-
-        - Add kill_super, just keeping up with the vfs changes in the kernel.
-        - Repeat some changes from tng-0.0.8 that somehow got lost on the way
-          from the CVS import into BitKeeper.
-        - Begin to implement proper handling of allocated_size vs
-          initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size). Done are
-          mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage(), aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async(),
-          and attrib.c::load_attribute_list().
-        - Lock the runlist in attrib.c::load_attribute_list() while using it.
-        - Fix memory leak in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() and generally
-          clean up compress.c a little, removing some uncommented/unused debug
-          code.
-        - Tidy up dir.c a little bit.
-        - Don't bother getting the runlist in inode.c::ntfs_read_inode().
-        - Merge mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage() and aops.c::ntfs_index_readpage()
-          creating aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage(), improving the handling of
-          holes and overflow in the process and implementing the correct
-          equivalent of ntfs_file_get_block() in ntfs_mst_readpage() itself.
-          I am aiming for correctness at the moment. Modularisation can come
-          later.
-        - Rename aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async() to
-          end_buffer_read_mst_async() and optimize the overflow checking and
-          handling.
-        - Use the host of the mftbmp address space mapping to hold the ntfs
-          volume. This is needed so the async i/o completion handler can
-          retrieve a pointer to the volume. Hopefully this will not cause
-          problems elsewhere in the kernel... Otherwise will need to use a
-          fake inode.
-        - Complete implementation of proper handling of allocated_size vs
-          initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size) in whole driver.
-          Basically aops.c is now completely rewritten.
-        - Change NTFS driver name to just NTFS and set version number to 2.0.0
-          to make a clear distinction from the old driver which is still on
-          version 1.1.22.
-
-tng-0.0.8 - 08/03/2002 - Now using BitKeeper, http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/
-
-        - Replace bdevname(sb->s_dev) with sb->s_id.
-        - Remove now superfluous new-line characters in all callers of
-          ntfs_debug().
-        - Apply kludge in ntfs_read_inode(), setting i_nlink to 1 for
-          directories. Without this the "find" utility gets very upset which is
-          fair enough as Linux/Unix do not support directory hard links.
-        - Further runlist merging work. (Richard Russon)
-        - Backwards compatibility for gcc-2.95. (Richard Russon)
-        - Update to kernel 2.5.5-pre1 and rediff the now tiny patch.
-        - Convert to new filesystem declaration using ->ntfs_get_sb() and
-          replacing ntfs_read_super() with ntfs_fill_super().
-        - Set s_maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE to avoid page cache page index
-          overflow on 32-bit architectures.
-        - Cleanup upcase loading code to use ntfs_(un)map_page().
-        - Disable/reenable preemtion in critical sections of compession engine.
-        - Replace device size determination in ntfs_fill_super() with
-          sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_size (in bytes) and remove now superfluous
-          function super.c::get_nr_blocks().
-        - Implement a mount time option (show_inodes) allowing choice of which
-          types of inode names readdir() returns and modify ntfs_filldir()
-          accordingly. There are several parameters to show_inodes:
-                system: system files
-                win32:  long file names (including POSIX file names) [DEFAULT]
-                long:   same as win32
-                dos:    short file names only (excluding POSIX file names)
-                short:  same as dos
-                posix:  same as both win32 and dos
-                all:    all file names
-          Note that the options are additive, i.e. specifying:
-                -o show_inodes=system,show_inodes=win32,show_inodes=dos
-          is the same as specifying:
-                -o show_inodes=all
-          Note that the "posix" and "all" options will show all directory
-          names, BUT the link count on each directory inode entry is set to 1,
-          due to Linux not supporting directory hard links. This may well
-          confuse some userspace applications, since the directory names will
-          have the same inode numbers. Thus it is NOT advisable to use the
-          "posix" or "all" options. We provide them only for completeness sake.
-        - Add copies of allocated_size, initialized_size, and compressed_size to
-          the ntfs inode structure and set them up in
-          inode.c::ntfs_read_inode(). These reflect the unnamed data attribute
-          for files and the index allocation attribute for directories.
-        - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs inode for
-          $BITMAP attribute of large directories and set them up in
-          inode.c::ntfs_read_inode().
-        - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs volume for
-          $BITMAP attribute of $MFT and set them up in
-          super.c::load_system_files().
-        - Parse deprecated ntfs driver options (iocharset, show_sys_files,
-          posix, and utf8) and tell user what the new options to use are. Note
-          we still do support them but they will be removed with kernel 2.7.x.
-        - Change all occurences of integer long long printf formatting to hex
-          as printk() will not support long long integer format if/when the
-          div64 patch goes into the kernel.
-        - Make slab caches have stable names and change the names to what they
-          were intended to be. These changes are required/made possible by the
-          new slab cache name handling which removes the length limitation by
-          requiring the caller of kmem_cache_create() to supply a stable name
-          which is then referenced but not copied.
-        - Rename run_list structure to run_list_element and create a new
-          run_list structure containing a pointer to a run_list_element
-          structure and a read/write semaphore. Adapt all users of runlists
-          to new scheme and take and release the lock as needed. This fixes a
-          nasty race as the run_list changes even when inodes are locked for
-          reading and even when the inode isn't locked at all, so we really
-          needed the serialization. We use a semaphore rather than a spinlock
-          as memory allocations can sleep and doing everything GFP_ATOMIC
-          would be silly.
-        - Cleanup read_inode() removing all code checking for lowest_vcn != 0.
-          This can never happen due to the nature of lookup_attr() and how we
-          support attribute lists. If it did happen it would imply the inode
-          being corrupt.
-        - Check for lowest_vcn != 0 in ntfs_read_inode() and mark the inode as
-          bad if found.
-        - Update to 2.5.6-pre2 changes in struct address_space.
-        - Use parent_ino() when accessing d_parent inode number in dir.c.
-        - Import Sourceforge CVS repository into BitKeeper repository:
-                http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfs-tng-2.5
-        - Update fs/Makefile, fs/Config.help, fs/Config.in, and
-          Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt for NTFS TNG.
-        - Create kernel configuration option controlling whether debugging
-          is enabled or not.
-        - Add the required export of end_buffer_io_sync() from the patches
-          directory to the kernel code.
-        - Update inode.c::ntfs_show_options() with show_inodes mount option.
-        - Update errors mount option.
-
-tng-0.0.7 - 13/02/2002 - The driver is now feature complete for read-only!
-
-        - Cleanup mft.c and it's debug/error output in particular. Fix a minor
-          bug in mapping of extent inodes. Update all the comments to fit all
-          the recent code changes.
-        - Modify vcn_to_lcn() to cope with entirely unmapped runlists.
-        - Cleanups in compress.c, mostly comments and folding help.
-        - Implement attrib.c::map_run_list() as a generic helper.
-        - Make compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() use map_run_list()
-          thus making code shorter and enabling attribute list support.
-        - Cleanup incorrect use of [su]64 with %L printf format specifier in
-          all source files. Type casts to [unsigned] long long added to correct
-          the mismatches (important for architectures which have long long not
-          being 64 bits).
-        - Merge async io completion handlers for directory indexes and $MFT
-          data into one by setting the index_block_size{_bits} of the ntfs
-          inode for $MFT to the mft_record_size{_bits} of the ntfs_volume.
-        - Cleanup aops.c, update comments.
-        - Make ntfs_file_get_block() use map_run_list() so all files now
-          support attribute lists.
-        - Make ntfs_dir_readpage() almost verbatim copy of
-          block_read_full_page() by using ntfs_file_get_block() with only real
-          difference being the use of our own async io completion handler
-          rather than the default one, thus reducing the amount of code and
-          automatically enabling attribute list support for directory indices.
-        - Fix bug in load_attribute_list() - forgot to call brelse in error
-          code path.
-        - Change parameters to find_attr() and lookup_attr(). We no longer
-          pass in the upcase table and its length. These can be gotten from
-          ctx->ntfs_ino->vol->upcase{_len}. Update all callers.
-        - Cleanups in attrib.c.
-        - Implement merging of runlists, attrib.c::merge_run_lists() and its
-          helpers. (Richard Russon)
-        - Attribute lists part 2, attribute extents and multi part runlists:
-          enable proper support for LCN_RL_NOT_MAPPED and automatic mapping of
-          further runlist parts via attrib.c::map_run_list().
-        - Tiny endianness bug fix in decompress_mapping_pairs().
-
-tng-0.0.6 - Encrypted directories, bug fixes, cleanups, debugging enhancements.
-
-        - Enable encrypted directories. (Their index root is marked encrypted
-          to indicate that new files in that directory should be created
-          encrypted.)
-        - Fix bug in NInoBmpNonResident() macro. (Cut and paste error.)
-        - Enable $Extend system directory. Most (if not all) extended system
-          files do not have unnamed data attributes so ntfs_read_inode() had to
-          special case them but that is ok, as the special casing recovery
-          happens inside an error code path so there is zero slow down in the
-          normal fast path. The special casing is done by introducing a new
-          function inode.c::ntfs_is_extended_system_file() which checks if any
-          of the hard links in the inode point to $Extend as being their parent
-          directory and if they do we assume this is an extended system file.
-        - Create a sysctl/proc interface to allow {dis,en}abling of debug output
-          when compiled with -DDEBUG. Default is debug messages to be disabled.
-          To enable them, one writes a non-zero value to /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
-          (if /proc is enabled) or uses sysctl(2) to effect the same (if sysctl
-          interface is enabled). Inspired by old ntfs driver.
-        - Add debug_msgs insmod/kernel boot parameter to set whether debug
-          messages are {dis,en}abled. This is useful to enable debug messages
-          during ntfs initialization and is the only way to activate debugging
-          when the sysctl interface is not enabled.
-        - Cleanup debug output in various places.
-        - Remove all dollar signs ($) from the source (except comments) to
-          enable compilation on architectures whose gcc compiler does not
-          support dollar signs in the names of variables/constants. Attribute
-          types now start with AT_ instead of $ and $I30 is now just I30.
-        - Cleanup ntfs_lookup() and add consistency check of sequence numbers.
-        - Load complete runlist for $MFT/$BITMAP during mount and cleanup
-          access functions. This means we now cope with $MFT/$BITMAP being
-          spread accross several mft records.
-        - Disable modification of mft_zone_multiplier on remount. We can always
-          reenable this later on if we really want to, but we will need to make
-          sure we readjust the mft_zone size / layout accordingly.
-
-tng-0.0.5 - Modernize for 2.5.x and further in line-ing with Al Viro's comments.
-
-        - Use sb_set_blocksize() instead of set_blocksize() and verify the
-          return value.
-        - Use sb_bread() instead of bread() throughout.
-        - Add index_vcn_size{_bits} to ntfs_inode structure to store the size
-          of a directory index block vcn. Apply resulting simplifications in
-          dir.c everywhere.
-        - Fix a small bug somewhere (but forgot what it was).
-        - Change ntfs_{debug,error,warning} to enable gcc to do type checking
-          on the printf-format parameter list and fix bugs reported by gcc
-          as a result. (Richard Russon)
-        - Move inode allocation strategy to Al's new stuff but maintain the
-          divorce of ntfs_inode from struct inode. To achieve this we have two
-          separate slab caches, one for big ntfs inodes containing a struct
-          inode and pure ntfs inodes and at the same time fix some faulty
-          error code paths in ntfs_read_inode().
-        - Show mount options in proc (inode.c::ntfs_show_options()).
-
-tng-0.0.4 - Big changes, getting in line with Al Viro's comments.
-
-        - Modified (un)map_mft_record functions to be common for read and write
-          case. To specify which is which, added extra parameter at front of
-          parameter list. Pass either READ or WRITE to this, each has the
-          obvious meaning.
-        - General cleanups to allow for easier folding in vi.
-        - attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() now accepts the old runlist
-          argument, and invokes attrib.c::merge_run_lists() to merge the old
-          and the new runlists.
-        - Removed attrib.c::find_first_attr().
-        - Implemented loading of attribute list and complete runlist for $MFT.
-          This means we now cope with $MFT being spread across several mft
-          records.
-        - Adapt to 2.5.2-pre9 and the changed create_empty_buffers() syntax.
-        - Adapt major/minor/kdev_t/[bk]devname stuff to new 2.5.x kernels.
-        - Make ntfs_volume be allocated via kmalloc() instead of using a slab
-          cache. There are too little ntfs_volume structures at any one time
-          to justify a private slab cache.
-        - Fix bogus kmap() use in async io completion. Now use kmap_atomic().
-          Use KM_BIO_IRQ on advice from IRC/kernel...
-        - Use ntfs_map_page() in map_mft_record() and create ->readpage method
-          for reading $MFT (ntfs_mft_readpage). In the process create dedicated
-          address space operations (ntfs_mft_aops) for $MFT inode mapping. Also
-          removed the now superfluous exports from the kernel core patch.
-        - Fix a bug where kfree() was used instead of ntfs_free().
-        - Change map_mft_record() to take ntfs_inode as argument instead of
-          vfs inode. Dito for unmap_mft_record(). Adapt all callers.
-        - Add pointer to ntfs_volume to ntfs_inode.
-        - Add mft record number and sequence number to ntfs_inode. Stop using
-          i_ino and i_generation for in-driver purposes.
-        - Implement attrib.c::merge_run_lists(). (Richard Russon)
-        - Remove use of proper inodes by extent inodes. Move i_ino and
-          i_generation to ntfs_inode to do this. Apply simplifications that
-          result and remove iget_no_wait(), etc.
-        - Pass ntfs_inode everywhere in the driver (used to be struct inode).
-        - Add reference counting in ntfs_inode for the ntfs inode itself and
-          for the mapped mft record.
-        - Extend mft record mapping so we can (un)map extent mft records (new
-          functions (un)map_extent_mft_record), and so mappings are reference
-          counted and don't have to happen twice if already mapped - just ref
-          count increases.
-        - Add -o iocharset as alias to -o nls for backwards compatibility.
-        - The latest core patch is now tiny. In fact just a single additional
-          export is necessary over the base kernel.
-
-tng-0.0.3 - Cleanups, enhancements, bug fixes.
-
-        - Work on attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() to detect base extents
-          and setup the runlist appropriately using knowledge provided by the
-          sizes in the base attribute record.
-        - Balance the get_/put_attr_search_ctx() calls so we don't leak memory
-          any more.
-        - Introduce ntfs_malloc_nofs() and ntfs_free() to allocate/free a single
-          page or use vmalloc depending on the amount of memory requested.
-        - Cleanup error output. The __FUNCTION__ "(): " is now added
-          automatically. Introduced a new header file debug.h to support this
-          and also moved ntfs_debug() function into it.
-        - Make reading of compressed files more intelligent and especially get
-          rid of the vmalloc_nofs() from readpage(). This now uses per CPU
-          buffers (allocated at first mount with cluster size <= 4kiB and
-          deallocated on last umount with cluster size <= 4kiB), and
-          asynchronous io for the compressed data using a list of buffer heads.
-          Er, we use synchronous io as async io only works on whole pages
-          covered by buffers and not on individual buffer heads...
-        - Bug fix for reading compressed files with sparse compression blocks.
-
-tng-0.0.2 - Now handles larger/fragmented/compressed volumes/files/dirs.
-
-        - Fixed handling of directories when cluster size exceeds index block
-          size.
-        - Hide DOS only name space directory entries from readdir() but allow
-          them in lookup(). This should fix the problem that Linux doesn't
-          support directory hard links, while still allowing access to entries
-          via their short file name. This also has the benefit of mimicking
-          what Windows users are used to, so it is the ideal solution.
-        - Implemented sync_page everywhere so no more hangs in D state when
-          waiting for a page.
-        - Stop using bforget() in favour of brelse().
-        - Stop locking buffers unnecessarily.
-        - Implemented compressed files (inode->mapping contains uncompressed
-          data, raw compressed data is currently bread() into a vmalloc()ed
-          memory buffer).
-        - Enable compressed directories. (Their index root is marked compressed
-          to indicate that new files in that directory should be created
-          compressed.)
-        - Use vsnprintf rather than vsprintf in the ntfs_error and ntfs_warning
-          functions. (Thanks to Will Dyson for pointing this out.)
-        - Moved the ntfs_inode and ntfs_volume (the former ntfs_inode_info and
-          ntfs_sb_info) out of the common inode and super_block structures and
-          started using the generic_ip and generic_sbp pointers instead. This
-          makes ntfs entirely private with respect to the kernel tree.
-        - Detect compiler version and abort with error message if gcc less than
-          2.96 is used.
-        - Fix bug in name comparison function in unistr.c.
-        - Implement attribute lists part 1, the infrastructure: search contexts
-          and operations, find_external_attr(), lookup_attr()) and make the
-          code use the infrastructure.
-        - Fix stupid buffer overflow bug that became apparent on larger run
-          list containing attributes.
-        - Fix bugs in readdir() that became apparent on larger directories.
-
-        The driver is now really useful and survives the test
-                find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;
-        without any error messages on a over 1GiB sized partition with >16k
-        files on it, including compressed files and directories and many files
-        and directories with attribute lists.
-
-tng-0.0.1 - The first useful version.
-
-        - Added ntfs_lookup().
-        - Added default upcase generation and handling.
-        - Added compile options to be shown on module init.
-        - Many bug fixes that were "hidden" before.
-        - Update to latest kernel.
-        - Added ntfs_readdir().
-        - Added file operations for mmap(), read(), open() and llseek(). We just
-          use the generic ones. The whole point of going through implementing
-          readpage() methods and where possible get_block() call backs is that
-          this allows us to make use of the generic high level methods provided
-          by the kernel.
-
-        The driver is now actually useful! Yey. (-: It undoubtedly has got bugs
-        though and it doesn't implement accesssing compressed files yet. Also,
-        accessing files with attribute list attributes is not implemented yet
-        either. But for small or simple filesystems it should work and allow
-        you to list directories, use stat on directory entries and the file
-        system, open, read, mmap and llseek around in files. A big mile stone
-        has been reached!
-
-tng-0.0.0 - Initial version tag.
-
-        Initial driver implementation. The driver can mount and umount simple
-        NTFS filesystems (i.e. ones without attribute lists in the system
-        files). If the mount fails there might be problems in the error handling
-        code paths, so be warned. Otherwise it seems to be loading the system
-        files nicely and the mft record read mapping/unmapping seems to be
-        working nicely, too. Proof of inode metadata in the page cache and non-
-        resident file unnamed stream data in the page cache concepts is thus
-        complete.
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c b/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
index 8298608d4165..50c4ee805da4 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
@@ -1881,7 +1881,7 @@ out:
  * ocfs2_file_lock() and ocfs2_file_unlock() map to a single pair of
  * flock() calls. The locking approach this requires is sufficiently
  * different from all other cluster lock types that we implement a
- * seperate path to the "low-level" dlm calls. In particular:
+ * separate path to the "low-level" dlm calls. In particular:
  *
  * - No optimization of lock levels is done - we take at exactly
  *   what's been requested.
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/extent_map.c b/fs/ocfs2/extent_map.c
index 5328529e7fd2..c562a7581cf9 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/extent_map.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/extent_map.c
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ static int ocfs2_get_clusters_nocache(struct inode *inode,
         if (i == -1) {
                 /*
                  * Holes can be larger than the maximum size of an
-                 * extent, so we return their lengths in a seperate
+                 * extent, so we return their lengths in a separate
                  * field.
                  */
                 if (hole_len) {
diff --git a/fs/qnx4/inode.c b/fs/qnx4/inode.c
index ebf3440d28ca..277575ddc05c 100644
--- a/fs/qnx4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/qnx4/inode.c
@@ -201,7 +201,8 @@ static const char *qnx4_checkroot(struct super_block *sb)
                                 rootdir = (struct qnx4_inode_entry *) (bh->b_data + i * QNX4_DIR_ENTRY_SIZE);
                                 if (rootdir->di_fname != NULL) {
                                         QNX4DEBUG((KERN_INFO "rootdir entry found : [%s]\n", rootdir->di_fname));
-                                        if (!strncmp(rootdir->di_fname, QNX4_BMNAME, sizeof QNX4_BMNAME)) {
+                                        if (!strcmp(rootdir->di_fname,
+                                                    QNX4_BMNAME)) {
                                                 found = 1;
                                                 qnx4_sb(sb)->BitMap = kmalloc( sizeof( struct qnx4_inode_entry ), GFP_KERNEL );
                                                 if (!qnx4_sb(sb)->BitMap) {
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c b/fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c
index dc014f7def05..483442e66ed6 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ static int scan_bitmap_block(struct reiserfs_transaction_handle *th,
                         return 0;       // No free blocks in this bitmap
                 }
 
-                /* search for a first zero bit -- beggining of a window */
+                /* search for a first zero bit -- beginning of a window */
                 *beg = reiserfs_find_next_zero_le_bit
                     ((unsigned long *)(bh->b_data), boundary, *beg);
 
diff --git a/fs/udf/inode.c b/fs/udf/inode.c
index b57ab0402d89..86f0ccb80765 100644
--- a/fs/udf/inode.c
+++ b/fs/udf/inode.c
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ void udf_clear_inode(struct inode *inode)
         if (iinfo->i_alloc_type != ICBTAG_FLAG_AD_IN_ICB &&
             inode->i_size != iinfo->i_lenExtents) {
                 printk(KERN_WARNING "UDF-fs (%s): Inode %lu (mode %o) has "
-                        "inode size %llu different from extent lenght %llu. "
+                        "inode size %llu different from extent length %llu. "
                         "Filesystem need not be standards compliant.\n",
                         inode->i_sb->s_id, inode->i_ino, inode->i_mode,
                         (unsigned long long)inode->i_size,
diff --git a/include/linux/dm9000.h b/include/linux/dm9000.h
index c30879cf93bc..96e87693d933 100644
--- a/include/linux/dm9000.h
+++ b/include/linux/dm9000.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #define DM9000_PLATF_NO_EEPROM  (0x0010)
 #define DM9000_PLATF_SIMPLE_PHY (0x0020)  /* Use NSR to find LinkStatus */
 
-/* platfrom data for platfrom device structure's platfrom_data field */
+/* platform data for platform device structure's platform_data field */
 
 struct dm9000_plat_data {
         unsigned int    flags;
diff --git a/include/linux/hil.h b/include/linux/hil.h
index 13352d7d0caf..523785a9de70 100644
--- a/include/linux/hil.h
+++ b/include/linux/hil.h
@@ -168,14 +168,14 @@ enum hil_command {
         HIL_CMD_PR6     = 0x45, /* Prompt6 */
         HIL_CMD_PR7     = 0x46, /* Prompt7 */
         HIL_CMD_PRM     = 0x47, /* Prompt (General Purpose) */
-        HIL_CMD_AK1     = 0x48, /* Acknowlege1 */  
-        HIL_CMD_AK2     = 0x49, /* Acknowlege2 */
-        HIL_CMD_AK3     = 0x4a, /* Acknowlege3 */
-        HIL_CMD_AK4     = 0x4b, /* Acknowlege4 */
-        HIL_CMD_AK5     = 0x4c, /* Acknowlege5 */
-        HIL_CMD_AK6     = 0x4d, /* Acknowlege6 */
-        HIL_CMD_AK7     = 0x4e, /* Acknowlege7 */
-        HIL_CMD_ACK     = 0x4f, /* Acknowlege (General Purpose) */
+        HIL_CMD_AK1     = 0x48, /* Acknowledge1 */  
+        HIL_CMD_AK2     = 0x49, /* Acknowledge2 */
+        HIL_CMD_AK3     = 0x4a, /* Acknowledge3 */
+        HIL_CMD_AK4     = 0x4b, /* Acknowledge4 */
+        HIL_CMD_AK5     = 0x4c, /* Acknowledge5 */
+        HIL_CMD_AK6     = 0x4d, /* Acknowledge6 */
+        HIL_CMD_AK7     = 0x4e, /* Acknowledge7 */
+        HIL_CMD_ACK     = 0x4f, /* Acknowledge (General Purpose) */
 
         /* 0x50 to 0x78 reserved for future use  */
         /* 0x80 to 0xEF device-specific commands */
diff --git a/include/linux/lru_cache.h b/include/linux/lru_cache.h
index 3a2b2d9b0472..de48d167568b 100644
--- a/include/linux/lru_cache.h
+++ b/include/linux/lru_cache.h
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ For crash recovery after replication node failure,
   usually the condition is softened to regions that _may_ have been target of
   in-flight WRITE IO, e.g. by only lazily clearing the on-disk write-intent
   bitmap, trading frequency of meta data transactions against amount of
-  (possibly unneccessary) resync traffic.
+  (possibly unnecessary) resync traffic.
 
   If we set a hard limit on the area that may be "hot" at any given time, we
   limit the amount of resync traffic needed for crash recovery.
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index bc209d8b7b5c..cf9e458e96b0 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ struct zone {
          * prev_priority holds the scanning priority for this zone.  It is
          * defined as the scanning priority at which we achieved our reclaim
          * target at the previous try_to_free_pages() or balance_pgdat()
-         * invokation.
+         * invocation.
          *
          * We use prev_priority as a measure of how much stress page reclaim is
          * under - it drives the swappiness decision: whether to unmap mapped
diff --git a/include/linux/rbtree.h b/include/linux/rbtree.h
index 9c295411d01f..5210a5c60877 100644
--- a/include/linux/rbtree.h
+++ b/include/linux/rbtree.h
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@
 
   Some example of insert and search follows here. The search is a plain
   normal search over an ordered tree. The insert instead must be implemented
-  int two steps: as first thing the code must insert the element in
-  order as a red leaf in the tree, then the support library function
-  rb_insert_color() must be called. Such function will do the
-  not trivial work to rebalance the rbtree if necessary.
+  in two steps: First, the code must insert the element in order as a red leaf
+  in the tree, and then the support library function rb_insert_color() must
+  be called. Such function will do the not trivial work to rebalance the
+  rbtree, if necessary.
 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 static inline struct page * rb_search_page_cache(struct inode * inode,
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 46c6f8d5dc06..c0ead33af5d0 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1473,7 +1473,7 @@ struct task_struct {
 
         struct list_head        *scm_work_list;
 #ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
-        /* Index of current stored adress in ret_stack */
+        /* Index of current stored address in ret_stack */
         int curr_ret_stack;
         /* Stack of return addresses for return function tracing */
         struct ftrace_ret_stack *ret_stack;
diff --git a/include/math-emu/op-common.h b/include/math-emu/op-common.h
index f456534dcaf9..fd882261225e 100644
--- a/include/math-emu/op-common.h
+++ b/include/math-emu/op-common.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
   _FP_FRAC_DECL_##wc(X)
 
 /*
- * Finish truely unpacking a native fp value by classifying the kind
+ * Finish truly unpacking a native fp value by classifying the kind
  * of fp value and normalizing both the exponent and the fraction.
  */
 
diff --git a/include/media/davinci/vpfe_capture.h b/include/media/davinci/vpfe_capture.h
index d863e5e8426d..4314a5f6a087 100644
--- a/include/media/davinci/vpfe_capture.h
+++ b/include/media/davinci/vpfe_capture.h
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ struct vpfe_device {
         u8 started;
         /*
          * offset where second field starts from the starting of the
-         * buffer for field seperated YCbCr formats
+         * buffer for field separated YCbCr formats
          */
         u32 field_off;
 };
diff --git a/include/net/irda/irttp.h b/include/net/irda/irttp.h
index 0788c23d2828..11aee7a2972a 100644
--- a/include/net/irda/irttp.h
+++ b/include/net/irda/irttp.h
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
 #define TTP_MAX_SDU_SIZE 0x01
 
 /*
- *  This structure contains all data assosiated with one instance of a TTP 
+ *  This structure contains all data associated with one instance of a TTP 
  *  connection.
  */
 struct tsap_cb {
diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 5feed232be9d..78f7f86aa238 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ static void kauditd_send_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
         skb_get(skb);
         err = netlink_unicast(audit_sock, skb, audit_nlk_pid, 0);
         if (err < 0) {
-                BUG_ON(err != -ECONNREFUSED); /* Shoudn't happen */
+                BUG_ON(err != -ECONNREFUSED); /* Shouldn't happen */
                 printk(KERN_ERR "audit: *NO* daemon at audit_pid=%d\n", audit_pid);
                 audit_log_lost("auditd dissapeared\n");
                 audit_pid = 0;
diff --git a/kernel/irq/chip.c b/kernel/irq/chip.c
index d70394f12ee9..42ec11b2af8a 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/chip.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/chip.c
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ out:
  *      signal. The occurence is latched into the irq controller hardware
  *      and must be acked in order to be reenabled. After the ack another
  *      interrupt can happen on the same source even before the first one
- *      is handled by the assosiacted event handler. If this happens it
+ *      is handled by the associated event handler. If this happens it
  *      might be necessary to disable (mask) the interrupt depending on the
  *      controller hardware. This requires to reenable the interrupt inside
  *      of the loop which handles the interrupts which have arrived while
diff --git a/kernel/irq/devres.c b/kernel/irq/devres.c
index d06df9c41cba..1ef4ffcdfa55 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/devres.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/devres.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static int devm_irq_match(struct device *dev, void *res, void *data)
  *      automatically freed on driver detach.
  *
  *      If an IRQ allocated with this function needs to be freed
- *      separately, dev_free_irq() must be used.
+ *      separately, devm_free_irq() must be used.
  */
 int devm_request_threaded_irq(struct device *dev, unsigned int irq,
                               irq_handler_t handler, irq_handler_t thread_fn,
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(devm_request_threaded_irq);
  *      Except for the extra @dev argument, this function takes the
  *      same arguments and performs the same function as free_irq().
  *      This function instead of free_irq() should be used to manually
- *      free IRQs allocated with dev_request_irq().
+ *      free IRQs allocated with devm_request_irq().
  */
 void devm_free_irq(struct device *dev, unsigned int irq, void *dev_id)
 {
diff --git a/kernel/ksysfs.c b/kernel/ksysfs.c
index 6b1ccc3f0205..21fe3c426948 100644
--- a/kernel/ksysfs.c
+++ b/kernel/ksysfs.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ static ssize_t uevent_seqnum_show(struct kobject *kobj,
 }
 KERNEL_ATTR_RO(uevent_seqnum);
 
-/* uevent helper program, used during early boo */
+/* uevent helper program, used during early boot */
 static ssize_t uevent_helper_show(struct kobject *kobj,
                                   struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
 {
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index 8d95f5451b22..0c4fba664090 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -401,8 +401,8 @@ int param_get_string(char *buffer, struct kernel_param *kp)
 }
 
 /* sysfs output in /sys/modules/XYZ/parameters/ */
-#define to_module_attr(n) container_of(n, struct module_attribute, attr);
-#define to_module_kobject(n) container_of(n, struct module_kobject, kobj);
+#define to_module_attr(n) container_of(n, struct module_attribute, attr)
+#define to_module_kobject(n) container_of(n, struct module_kobject, kobj)
 
 extern struct kernel_param __start___param[], __stop___param[];
 
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ struct module_param_attrs
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
-#define to_param_attr(n) container_of(n, struct param_attribute, mattr);
+#define to_param_attr(n) container_of(n, struct param_attribute, mattr)
 
 static ssize_t param_attr_show(struct module_attribute *mattr,
                                struct module *mod, char *buf)
diff --git a/kernel/sched_cpupri.c b/kernel/sched_cpupri.c
index 82095bf2099f..fccf9fbb0d7b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_cpupri.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_cpupri.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static int convert_prio(int prio)
  * @lowest_mask: A mask to fill in with selected CPUs (or NULL)
  *
  * Note: This function returns the recommended CPUs as calculated during the
- * current invokation.  By the time the call returns, the CPUs may have in
+ * current invocation.  By the time the call returns, the CPUs may have in
  * fact changed priorities any number of times.  While not ideal, it is not
  * an issue of correctness since the normal rebalancer logic will correct
  * any discrepancies created by racing against the uncertainty of the current
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 0287f9f52f5a..a2f0fe951831 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -2542,7 +2542,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_record_disable);
  * @buffer: The ring buffer to enable writes
  *
  * Note, multiple disables will need the same number of enables
- * to truely enable the writing (much like preempt_disable).
+ * to truly enable the writing (much like preempt_disable).
  */
 void ring_buffer_record_enable(struct ring_buffer *buffer)
 {
@@ -2578,7 +2578,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_record_disable_cpu);
  * @cpu: The CPU to enable.
  *
  * Note, multiple disables will need the same number of enables
- * to truely enable the writing (much like preempt_disable).
+ * to truly enable the writing (much like preempt_disable).
  */
 void ring_buffer_record_enable_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
 {
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
index fd05bcaf91b0..09b39112a5e2 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ static inline int ftrace_trace_task(struct task_struct *task)
  * struct trace_parser - servers for reading the user input separated by spaces
  * @cont: set if the input is not complete - no final space char was found
  * @buffer: holds the parsed user input
- * @idx: user input lenght
+ * @idx: user input length
  * @size: buffer size
  */
 struct trace_parser {
diff --git a/mm/highmem.c b/mm/highmem.c
index 9c1e627f282e..bed8a8bfd01f 100644
--- a/mm/highmem.c
+++ b/mm/highmem.c
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmap_high);
  * @page: &struct page to pin
  *
  * Returns the page's current virtual memory address, or NULL if no mapping
- * exists.  When and only when a non null address is returned then a
+ * exists.  If and only if a non null address is returned then a
  * matching call to kunmap_high() is necessary.
  *
  * This can be called from any context.
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 0bfd3863d521..75f9b0c1d883 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2960,7 +2960,7 @@ static void slab_mem_offline_callback(void *arg)
                         /*
                          * if n->nr_slabs > 0, slabs still exist on the node
                          * that is going down. We were unable to free them,
-                         * and offline_pages() function shoudn't call this
+                         * and offline_pages() function shouldn't call this
                          * callback. So, we must fail.
                          */
                         BUG_ON(slabs_node(s, offline_node));
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
index a17629b8912e..b2e6bbccaee1 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ static void tcp_mtu_probing(struct inet_connection_sock *icsk, struct sock *sk)
 }
 
 /* This function calculates a "timeout" which is equivalent to the timeout of a
- * TCP connection after "boundary" unsucessful, exponentially backed-off
+ * TCP connection after "boundary" unsuccessful, exponentially backed-off
  * retransmissions with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN.
  */
 static bool retransmits_timed_out(struct sock *sk,
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
index bc4e20e57ff5..1a29c4a8139e 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
@@ -744,7 +744,7 @@ void mesh_rx_plink_frame(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, struct ieee80211_m
                 break;
         default:
                 /* should not get here, PLINK_BLOCKED is dealt with at the
-                 * beggining of the function
+                 * beginning of the function
                  */
                 spin_unlock_bh(&sta->lock);
                 break;
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_sip.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_sip.c
index 8dd75d90efc0..c6cd1b84eddd 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_sip.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_sip.c
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ct_sip_parse_request);
  * tabs, spaces and continuation lines, which are treated as a single whitespace
  * character.
  *
- * Some headers may appear multiple times. A comma seperated list of values is
+ * Some headers may appear multiple times. A comma separated list of values is
  * equivalent to multiple headers.
  */
 static const struct sip_header ct_sip_hdrs[] = {
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ int ct_sip_get_header(const struct nf_conn *ct, const char *dptr,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ct_sip_get_header);
 
-/* Get next header field in a list of comma seperated values */
+/* Get next header field in a list of comma separated values */
 static int ct_sip_next_header(const struct nf_conn *ct, const char *dptr,
                               unsigned int dataoff, unsigned int datalen,
                               enum sip_header_types type,
diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c b/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c
index d952806b6469..9e9c48963942 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
  *      xt_hashlimit - Netfilter module to limit the number of packets per time
- *      seperately for each hashbucket (sourceip/sourceport/dstip/dstport)
+ *      separately for each hashbucket (sourceip/sourceport/dstip/dstport)
  *
  *      (C) 2003-2004 by Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
  *      Copyright © CC Computer Consultants GmbH, 2007 - 2008
diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
index 4e4ca65cd320..500886bda9b4 100644
--- a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ static void sctp_do_8_2_transport_strike(struct sctp_association *asoc,
          * used to provide an upper bound to this doubling operation.
          *
          * Special Case:  the first HB doesn't trigger exponential backoff.
-         * The first unacknowleged HB triggers it.  We do this with a flag
+         * The first unacknowledged HB triggers it.  We do this with a flag
          * that indicates that we have an outstanding HB.
          */
         if (!is_hb || transport->hb_sent) {
diff --git a/scripts/gfp-translate b/scripts/gfp-translate
index 073cb6d152a0..d81b968d864e 100644
--- a/scripts/gfp-translate
+++ b/scripts/gfp-translate
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ usage() {
         exit 0
 }
 
-# Parse command-line arguements
+# Parse command-line arguments
 while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
         case $1 in
                 --source)
diff --git a/security/selinux/avc.c b/security/selinux/avc.c
index db0fd9f33499..989fef82563a 100644
--- a/security/selinux/avc.c
+++ b/security/selinux/avc.c
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ static inline struct avc_node *avc_search_node(u32 ssid, u32 tsid, u16 tclass)
  * Look up an AVC entry that is valid for the
  * (@ssid, @tsid), interpreting the permissions
  * based on @tclass.  If a valid AVC entry exists,
- * then this function return the avc_node.
+ * then this function returns the avc_node.
  * Otherwise, this function returns NULL.
  */
 static struct avc_node *avc_lookup(u32 ssid, u32 tsid, u16 tclass)
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ void avc_audit(u32 ssid, u32 tsid,
  * @perms: permissions
  *
  * Register a callback function for events in the set @events
- * related to the SID pair (@ssid, @tsid) and
+ * related to the SID pair (@ssid, @tsid) 
  * and the permissions @perms, interpreting
  * @perms based on @tclass.  Returns %0 on success or
  * -%ENOMEM if insufficient memory exists to add the callback.
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ static inline int avc_sidcmp(u32 x, u32 y)
  *
  * if a valid AVC entry doesn't exist,this function returns -ENOENT.
  * if kmalloc() called internal returns NULL, this function returns -ENOMEM.
- * otherwise, this function update the AVC entry. The original AVC-entry object
+ * otherwise, this function updates the AVC entry. The original AVC-entry object
  * will release later by RCU.
  */
 static int avc_update_node(u32 event, u32 perms, u32 ssid, u32 tsid, u16 tclass,
diff --git a/sound/pci/rme9652/hdspm.c b/sound/pci/rme9652/hdspm.c
index 3d72c1effeef..547b713d7204 100644
--- a/sound/pci/rme9652/hdspm.c
+++ b/sound/pci/rme9652/hdspm.c
@@ -2479,7 +2479,7 @@ static int snd_hdspm_put_qs_wire(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol,
    on MADICARD 
   - playback mixer matrix: [channelout+64] [output] [value]
   - input(thru) mixer matrix: [channelin] [output] [value]
-  (better do 2 kontrols for seperation ?)
+  (better do 2 kontrols for separation ?)
 */
 
 #define HDSPM_MIXER(xname, xindex) \
diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/wm8990.c b/sound/soc/codecs/wm8990.c
index a54dc77b7f34..056b787b6ee0 100644
--- a/sound/soc/codecs/wm8990.c
+++ b/sound/soc/codecs/wm8990.c
@@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ static int wm8990_set_dai_pll(struct snd_soc_dai *codec_dai, int pll_id,
                 reg = snd_soc_read(codec, WM8990_CLOCKING_2);
                 snd_soc_write(codec, WM8990_CLOCKING_2, reg | WM8990_SYSCLK_SRC);
 
-                /* set up N , fractional mode and pre-divisor if neccessary */
+                /* set up N , fractional mode and pre-divisor if necessary */
                 snd_soc_write(codec, WM8990_PLL1, pll_div.n | WM8990_SDM |
                         (pll_div.div2?WM8990_PRESCALE:0));
                 snd_soc_write(codec, WM8990_PLL2, (u8)(pll_div.k>>8));
diff --git a/tools/perf/perf.c b/tools/perf/perf.c
index 57cb107c1f13..cd32c200cdb3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/perf.c
+++ b/tools/perf/perf.c
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 
         /*
          * We use PATH to find perf commands, but we prepend some higher
-         * precidence paths: the "--exec-path" option, the PERF_EXEC_PATH
+         * precedence paths: the "--exec-path" option, the PERF_EXEC_PATH
          * environment, and the $(perfexecdir) from the Makefile at build
          * time.
          */
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/hist.c b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
index e8daf5ca6fd2..44408c2621cf 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/hist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ static size_t __callchain__fprintf_graph(FILE *fp, struct callchain_node *self,
                         new_depth_mask &= ~(1 << (depth - 1));
 
                 /*
-                 * But we keep the older depth mask for the line seperator
+                 * But we keep the older depth mask for the line separator
                  * to keep the level link until we reach the last child
                  */
                 ret += ipchain__fprintf_graph_line(fp, depth, depth_mask,