29 files changed, 40 insertions, 40 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt
index d389388c733e..0d8240774fca 100644
--- a/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt
@@ -480,8 +480,8 @@ The PCI stack provides 3 possible levels of MSI disabling:
 
 6.1. Disabling MSI on a single device
 
-Under some circumstances, it might be required to disable MSI on a
-single device, It may be achived by either not calling pci_enable_msi()
+Under some circumstances it might be required to disable MSI on a
+single device.  This may be achieved by either not calling pci_enable_msi()
 or all, or setting the pci_dev->no_msi flag before (most of the time
 in a quirk).
 
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ being able to route MSI between busses. In this case, MSI have to be
 disabled on all devices behind this bridge. It is achieves by setting
 the PCI_BUS_FLAGS_NO_MSI flag in the pci_bus->bus_flags of the bridge
 subordinate bus. There is no need to set the same flag on bridges that
-are below the broken brigde. When pci_enable_msi() is called to enable
+are below the broken bridge. When pci_enable_msi() is called to enable
 MSI on a device, pci_msi_supported() takes care of checking the NO_MSI
 flag in all parent busses of the device.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt b/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt
index 96ccf681075e..1b930ef5a079 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ Intro
 -----
 
 With the introduction of cfq v3 (aka cfq-ts or time sliced cfq), basic io
-priorities is supported for reads on files. This enables users to io nice
-processes or process groups, similar to what has been possible to cpu
-scheduling for ages. This document mainly details the current possibilites
-with cfq, other io schedulers do not support io priorities so far.
+priorities are supported for reads on files.  This enables users to io nice
+processes or process groups, similar to what has been possible with cpu
+scheduling for ages.  This document mainly details the current possibilities
+with cfq; other io schedulers do not support io priorities thus far.
 
 Scheduling classes
 ------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt
index 53d62c1e1c94..fc647492e940 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Contents
 
 1. Introduction
 
-cpufreq-stats is a driver that provices CPU frequency statistics for each CPU.
+cpufreq-stats is a driver that provides CPU frequency statistics for each CPU.
 These statistics are provided in /sysfs as a bunch of read_only interfaces. This
 interface (when configured) will appear in a separate directory under cpufreq
 in /sysfs (<sysfs root>/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/stats/) for each CPU.
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
index c5491c22086c..19c4a6e13676 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
+++ b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ host bridges to peripheral buses, and most controllers integrated
 into system-on-chip platforms.  What they usually have in common
 is direct addressing from a CPU bus.  Rarely, a platform_device will
 be connected through a segment of some other kind of bus; but its
-registers will still be directly addressible.
+registers will still be directly addressable.
 
 Platform devices are given a name, used in driver binding, and a
 list of resources such as addresses and IRQs.
diff --git a/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt b/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt
index 759028545a7e..316ec9bb7deb 100644
--- a/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ How to use it?
 ==============
 
 Imacfb does not have any kind of autodetection of your machine.
-You have to add the fillowing kernel parameters in your elilo.conf:
+You have to add the following kernel parameters in your elilo.conf:
         Macbook :
                 video=imacfb:macbook
         MacMini :
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt
index 38aba03efc5e..fa45c3baed98 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ History
 2.07 More fixes for Warp Server. Now it really works
 2.08 Creating new files is not so slow on large disks
      An attempt to sync deleted file does not generate filesystem error
-2.09 Fixed error on extremly fragmented files
+2.09 Fixed error on extremely fragmented files
 
 
  vim: set textwidth=80:
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
index 81779068b09b..8ee10ec88293 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ end of the line.
 Note the "Should sync?" parameter "nosync" means that the two mirrors are
 already in sync which will be the case on a clean shutdown of Windows.  If the
 mirrors are not clean, you can specify the "sync" option instead of "nosync"
-and the Device-Mapper driver will then copy the entirey of the "Source Device"
+and the Device-Mapper driver will then copy the entirety of the "Source Device"
 to the "Target Device" or if you specified multipled target devices to all of
 them.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt
index 7fbb6ffe5769..18d23f9a18c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ If the current buffer is full, i.e. all sub-buffers remain unconsumed,
 the callback returns 0 to indicate that the buffer switch should not
 occur yet, i.e. until the consumer has had a chance to read the
 current set of ready sub-buffers.  For the relay_buf_full() function
-to make sense, the consumer is reponsible for notifying the relay
+to make sense, the consumer is responsible for notifying the relay
 interface when sub-buffers have been consumed via
 relay_subbufs_consumed().  Any subsequent attempts to write into the
 buffer will again invoke the subbuf_start() callback with the same
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt
index 6c0cef10eb4d..3cc4010521a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ completely. With execute-in-place, read&write type operations are performed
 directly from/to the memory backed storage device. For file mappings, the
 storage device itself is mapped directly into userspace.
 
-This implementation was initialy written for shared memory segments between
+This implementation was initially written for shared memory segments between
 different virtual machines on s390 hardware to allow multiple machines to
 share the same binaries and libraries.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/gdbstub.txt b/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/gdbstub.txt
index 9304fb36ae8a..b92bfd902a4e 100644
--- a/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/gdbstub.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/gdbstub.txt
@@ -126,5 +126,5 @@ GDB stub and the debugger:
 
 Furthermore, the GDB stub will intercept a number of exceptions automatically
 if they are caused by kernel execution. It will also intercept BUG() macro
-invokation.
+invocation.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt b/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt
index 668f4d0d97d6..ab050621e20f 100644
--- a/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt
+++ b/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt
@@ -179,9 +179,9 @@ reporting mode for joystick 1, with both buttons being logically assigned to
 the mouse. After any joystick command, the ikbd assumes that joysticks are
 connected to both Joystick0 and Joystick1. Any mouse command (except MOUSE
 DISABLE) then causes port 0 to again be scanned as if it were a mouse, and
-both buttons are logically connected to it. If a mouse diable command is
+both buttons are logically connected to it. If a mouse disable command is
 received while port 0 is presumed to be a mouse, the button is logically
-assigned to Joystick1 ( until the mouse is reenabled by another mouse command).
+assigned to Joystick1 (until the mouse is reenabled by another mouse command).
 
 9. ikbd Command Set
 
diff --git a/Documentation/input/xpad.txt b/Documentation/input/xpad.txt
index 5427bdf225ed..aae0d404c566 100644
--- a/Documentation/input/xpad.txt
+++ b/Documentation/input/xpad.txt
@@ -65,15 +65,15 @@ of buttons, see section 0.3 - Unknown Controllers
 I've tested this with Stepmania, and it works quite well.
 
 
-0.3 Unkown Controllers
+0.3 Unknown Controllers
 ----------------------
-If you have an unkown xbox controller, it should work just fine with
+If you have an unknown xbox controller, it should work just fine with
 the default settings.
 
 HOWEVER if you have an unknown dance pad not listed below, it will not
 work UNLESS you set "dpad_to_buttons" to 1 in the module configuration.
 
-PLEASE if you have an unkown controller, email Dom <binary1230@yahoo.com> with
+PLEASE, if you have an unknown controller, email Dom <binary1230@yahoo.com> with
 a dump from /proc/bus/usb and a description of the pad (manufacturer, country,
 whether it is a dance pad or normal controller) so that we can add your pad
 to the list of supported devices, ensuring that it will work out of the
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt
index fb8dc6422a52..7907435a661c 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ on current cpu. This primitive is called by dev->poll(), when
 it completes its work. The device cannot be out of poll list at this
 call, if it is then clearly it is a BUG(). You'll know ;->
 
-All these above nethods are used below. So keep reading for clarity.
+All of the above methods are used below, so keep reading for clarity.
 
 Device driver changes to be made when porting NAPI
 ==================================================
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/udplite.txt b/Documentation/networking/udplite.txt
index dd6f46b83dab..6be09ba24a36 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/udplite.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/udplite.txt
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
   3) Disabling the Checksum Computation
 
   On both sender and receiver, checksumming will always be performed
-  and can not be disabled using SO_NO_CHECK. Thus
+  and cannot be disabled using SO_NO_CHECK. Thus
 
         setsockopt(sockfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_NO_CHECK,  ... );
 
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt b/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt
index 07dd6d9930a1..bc2ab419a74a 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ REVISION HISTORY
                                 creating applications using BiSync
                                 streaming.        
 
-2.0.5   Aug 04, 1999            CHDLC initializatin bug fix.
+2.0.5   Aug 04, 1999            CHDLC initialization bug fix.
                                 PPP interrupt driven driver: 
                                 Fix to the PPP line hangup problem.
                                 New PPP firmware
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ REVISION HISTORY
                                 o cfgft1 GUI csu/dsu configurator
                                 o wancfg GUI configuration file 
                                   configurator.
-                                o Architectual directory changes.
+                                o Architectural directory changes.
 
 beta-2.1.4 Jul 2000             o Dynamic interface configuration:
                                         Network interfaces reflect the state
diff --git a/Documentation/pnp.txt b/Documentation/pnp.txt
index 28037aa1846c..481faf515d53 100644
--- a/Documentation/pnp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pnp.txt
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ 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
-- the ability to set resources is optional but prefered.
+- the ability to set resources is optional but preferred.
 
 The following are PnP protocol related functions:
 
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
index c141f2388474..b49ce169a63a 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
@@ -1633,7 +1633,7 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model.
      - assignment : function number of the pin according to the Pin Assignment
        tables in User Manual.  Each pin can have up to 4 possible functions in
        QE and two options for CPM.
-     - has_irq : indicates if the pin is used as source of exteral
+     - has_irq : indicates if the pin is used as source of external
        interrupts.
 
    Example:
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt
index 9b894f116d95..5f34d2ba69b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ The following information is available in this file:
    2.   Multi-function Twin Channel Device - Two controllers on one chip.
    3.   Command Channel Secondary DMA Engine - Allows scatter gather list
         and SCB prefetch.
-   4.   64 Byte SCB Support - Allows disconnected, unttagged request table
+   4.   64 Byte SCB Support - Allows disconnected, untagged request table
         for all possible target/lun combinations.
    5.   Block Move Instruction Support - Doubles the speed of certain
         sequencer operations.
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt
index 05667e7308d4..7bd210ab45a1 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ linux-1.1.x and fairly stable since linux-1.2.x, and are also in FreeBSD
         or enable Tagged Command Queueing (TCQ) on specific devices.  As of
         driver version 5.1.11, TCQ is now either on or off by default
         according to the setting you choose during the make config process.
-        In order to en/disable TCQ for certian devices at boot time, a user
+        In order to en/disable TCQ for certain devices at boot time, a user
         may use this boot param.  The driver will then parse this message out
         and en/disable the specific device entries that are present based upon
         the value given.  The param line is parsed in the following manner:
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt b/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt
index 88ef88b949f7..39d409a8efe5 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt
@@ -1260,7 +1260,7 @@ then the request of the IRQ obviously will not succeed for all the drivers.
 15.1 Problem tracking
 
 Most SCSI problems are due to a non conformant SCSI bus or to buggy
-devices.  If infortunately you have SCSI problems, you can check the
+devices.  If unfortunately you have SCSI problems, you can check the
 following things:
 
 - SCSI bus cables
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt b/Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt
index 2c1745a9df00..3d9f06bb3d00 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ devices, ... may cause a SCSI signal to be wrong when te driver reads it.
 15.1 Problem tracking
 
 Most SCSI problems are due to a non conformant SCSI bus or too buggy
-devices.  If infortunately you have SCSI problems, you can check the
+devices.  If unfortunately you have SCSI problems, you can check the
 following things:
 
 - SCSI bus cables
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index d3d3c255ddb7..111fd28727ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ Controls the kernel's behaviour when an oops or BUG is encountered.
 
 0: try to continue operation
 
-1: panic immediatly.  If the `panic' sysctl is also non-zero then the
+1: panic immediately.  If the `panic' sysctl is also non-zero then the
    machine will be rebooted.
 
 ==============================================================
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-at91/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-at91/Kconfig
index e238ad8cfd8f..018d637f87fc 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-at91/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-at91/Kconfig
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ config ARCH_AT91SAM9260_SAM9XE
         depends on ARCH_AT91SAM9260
         help
           Select this if you are using Atmel's AT91SAM9XE System-on-Chip.
-          They are basicaly AT91SAM9260s with various sizes of embedded Flash.
+          They are basically AT91SAM9260s with various sizes of embedded Flash.
 
 comment "AT91SAM9260 / AT91SAM9XE Board Type"
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap1/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-omap1/Kconfig
index 8781aaeb576b..c7e229b00f6e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-omap1/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap1/Kconfig
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ config MACH_OMAP_PALMTE
           Support for the Palm Tungsten E PDA. Currently only the LCD panel
           is supported. To boot the kernel, you'll need a PalmOS compatible
           bootloader; check out http://palmtelinux.sourceforge.net for more
-          informations.
+          information.
           Say Y here if you have such a PDA, say NO otherwise.
 
 config MACH_NOKIA770
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/capi/Kconfig b/drivers/isdn/capi/Kconfig
index c921d6c522f5..c92f9d764fce 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/capi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/isdn/capi/Kconfig
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ config CAPI_TRACE
         help
           If you say Y here, the kernelcapi driver can make verbose traces
           of CAPI messages. This feature can be enabled/disabled via IOCTL for
-          every controler (default disabled).
+          every controller (default disabled).
           This will increase the size of the kernelcapi module by 20 KB.
           If unsure, say Y.
 
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/pwc/philips.txt b/drivers/media/video/pwc/philips.txt
index f5e848410311..f9f3584281d8 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/pwc/philips.txt
+++ b/drivers/media/video/pwc/philips.txt
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ fps
    Specifies the desired framerate. Is an integer in the range of 4-30.
 
 fbufs
-   This paramter specifies the number of internal buffers to use for storing
+   This parameter specifies the number of internal buffers to use for storing
    frames from the cam. This will help if the process that reads images from
-   the cam is a bit slow or momentarely busy. However, on slow machines it
+   the cam is a bit slow or momentarily busy. However, on slow machines it
    only introduces lag, so choose carefully. The default is 3, which is
    reasonable. You can set it between 2 and 5.
 
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ trace
 
      128   0x80   PWCX debugging                                      Off
 
-   For example, to trace the open() & read() fuctions, sum 8 + 4 = 12,
+   For example, to trace the open() & read() functions, sum 8 + 4 = 12,
    so you would supply trace=12 during insmod or modprobe. If
    you want to turn the initialization and probing tracing off, set trace=0.
    The default value for trace is 35 (0x23).
diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_history.txt b/drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_history.txt
index d6b4c607453b..ddc7ae029dd3 100644
--- a/drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_history.txt
+++ b/drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_history.txt
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ mpi_fc.h
  *  11-02-00  01.01.01  Original release for post 1.0 work
  *  12-04-00  01.01.02  Added messages for Common Transport Send and
  *                      Primitive Send.
- *  01-09-01  01.01.03  Modifed some of the new flags to have an MPI prefix
+ *  01-09-01  01.01.03  Modified some of the new flags to have an MPI prefix
  *                      and modified the FcPrimitiveSend flags.
  *  01-25-01  01.01.04  Move InitiatorIndex in LinkServiceRsp reply to a larger
  *                      field.
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig
index d990d8141ef5..5fcd8b3631ba 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ config MTD_PHYSMAP_BANKWIDTH
           (i.e., run-time calling physmap_configure()).
 
 config MTD_PHYSMAP_OF
-        tristate "Flash device in physical memory map based on OF descirption"
+        tristate "Flash device in physical memory map based on OF description"
         depends on PPC_OF && (MTD_CFI || MTD_JEDECPROBE || MTD_ROM)
         help
           This provides a 'mapping' driver which allows the NOR Flash and
diff --git a/sound/core/Kconfig b/sound/core/Kconfig
index b2927523d79d..829ca38b595e 100644
--- a/sound/core/Kconfig
+++ b/sound/core/Kconfig
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ config SND_VERBOSE_PROCFS
         default y
         help
           Say Y here to include code for verbose procfs contents (provides
-          usefull information to developers when a problem occurs). On the
+          useful information to developers when a problem occurs).  On the
           other side, it makes the ALSA subsystem larger.
 
 config SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK