1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl
index 7a2e0e98986a..0d0f7b4d4b1a 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl
@@ -5318,7 +5318,7 @@ struct _snd_pcm_runtime {
       pages of the given size and map them onto the virtually contiguous
       memory.  The virtual pointer is addressed in runtime->dma_area.
       The physical address (runtime->dma_addr) is set to zero,
-      because the buffer is physically non-contigous.
+      because the buffer is physically non-contiguous.
       The physical address table is set up in sgbuf->table.
       You can get the physical address at a certain offset via
       <function>snd_pcm_sgbuf_get_addr()</function>.