19 files changed, 25 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats b/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats
index 99233902e09e..f91a973a37fe 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Description:
                  1 - major number
                  2 - minor mumber
                  3 - device name
-                 4 - reads completed succesfully
+                 4 - reads completed successfully
                  5 - reads merged
                  6 - sectors read
                  7 - time spent reading (ms)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
index 5f3bedaf8e35..d2f90334bb93 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Contact:	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
 Description:
                 The /sys/block/<disk>/stat files displays the I/O
                 statistics of disk <disk>. They contain 11 fields:
-                 1 - reads completed succesfully
+                 1 - reads completed successfully
                  2 - reads merged
                  3 - sectors read
                  4 - time spent reading (ms)
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl
index c671a0168096..1448b33fd222 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl
@@ -417,8 +417,8 @@ desc->chip->end();
       </para>
       <para>
         To make use of the split implementation, replace the call to
-        __do_IRQ by a call to desc->chip->handle_irq() and associate
-        the appropriate handler function to desc->chip->handle_irq().
+        __do_IRQ by a call to desc->handle_irq() and associate
+        the appropriate handler function to desc->handle_irq().
         In most cases the generic handler implementations should
         be sufficient.
      </para>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl
index df0d089d0fb9..f508a8a27fea 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ module_exit(board_cleanup);
         <sect1 id="Multiple_chip_control">
                 <title>Multiple chip control</title>
                 <para>
-                        The nand driver can control chip arrays. Therefor the
+                        The nand driver can control chip arrays. Therefore the
                         board driver must provide an own select_chip function. This
                         function must (de)select the requested chip.
                         The function pointer in the nand_chip structure must
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/videodev2.h.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/videodev2.h.xml
index 97002060ac4f..26303e58345f 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/videodev2.h.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/videodev2.h.xml
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ struct <link linkend="v4l2-jpegcompression">v4l2_jpegcompression</link> {
                                  * you do, leave them untouched.
                                  * Inluding less markers will make the
                                  * resulting code smaller, but there will
-                                 * be fewer aplications which can read it.
+                                 * be fewer applications which can read it.
                                  * The presence of the APP and COM marker
                                  * is influenced by APP_len and COM_len
                                  * ONLY, not by this property! */
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-&gt;dma_area.
       The physical address (runtime-&gt;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-&gt;table.
       You can get the physical address at a certain offset via
       <function>snd_pcm_sgbuf_get_addr()</function>. 
diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb b/Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb
index bf2a9cdfe7bb..c8238e44ed6b 100644
--- a/Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb
+++ b/Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_USB
              - moved transfer control (pid filter, fifo control) from usb driver to frontend, it seems
                better settled there (added xfer_ops-struct)
              - created a common files for frontends (mc/p/mb)
-  2004-09-28 - added support for a new device (Unkown, vendor ID is Hyper-Paltek)
+  2004-09-28 - added support for a new device (Unknown, vendor ID is Hyper-Paltek)
   2004-09-20 - added support for a new device (Compro DVB-U2000), thanks
                to Amaury Demol for reporting
              - changed usb TS transfer method (several urbs, stopping transfer
diff --git a/Documentation/edac.txt b/Documentation/edac.txt
index 06f8f46692dc..79c533223762 100644
--- a/Documentation/edac.txt
+++ b/Documentation/edac.txt
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ is:
 
         broken_parity_status
 
-as is located in /sys/devices/pci<XXX>/0000:XX:YY.Z directorys for
+as is located in /sys/devices/pci<XXX>/0000:XX:YY.Z directories for
 PCI devices.
 
 FUTURE HARDWARE SCANNING
@@ -288,9 +288,8 @@ Total UE count that had no information attribute fileY:
 
         'ue_noinfo_count'
 
-        This attribute file displays the number of UEs that
-        have occurred have occurred with  no informations as to which DIMM
-        slot is having errors.
+        This attribute file displays the number of UEs that have occurred
+        with no information as to which DIMM slot is having errors.
 
 
 Total Correctable Errors count attribute file:
diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
index 098de5bce00a..42208511b5c0 100644
--- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
+++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ static void *map_zeroed_pages(unsigned int num)
         addr = mmap(NULL, getpagesize() * num,
                     PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
         if (addr == MAP_FAILED)
-                err(1, "Mmaping %u pages of /dev/zero", num);
+                err(1, "Mmapping %u pages of /dev/zero", num);
 
         /*
          * One neat mmap feature is that you can close the fd, and it
diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
index b152e81da592..c10c022b911c 100644
--- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
+++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
@@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value.
 
  10: 'W' if a warning has previously been issued by the kernel.
 
+ 11: 'C' if a staging driver has been loaded.
+
 The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel
 debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has
 occurred.  Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is
diff --git a/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt b/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt
index 5f83fd24ea84..cdebb5145c25 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ to set the limit to 500mA when supplying power.
 
 Consumers can control their supply current limit by calling :-
 
-int regulator_set_current_limit(regulator, min_uV, max_uV);
+int regulator_set_current_limit(regulator, min_uA, max_uA);
 
 Where min_uA and max_uA are the minimum and maximum acceptable current limit in
 microamps.
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas
index 151a7b718b8c..17ffa0607712 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ ii.	FW enables WCE bit in Mode Sense cmd for drives that are configured
         Disks are exposed with WCE=1. User is advised to enable Write Back
         mode only when the controller has battery backup. At this time
         Synhronize cache is not supported by the FW. Driver will short-cycle
-        the cmd and return sucess without sending down to FW.
+        the cmd and return success without sending down to FW.
 
 1 Release Date    : Sun Jan. 14 11:21:32 PDT 2007 -
                  Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>/Bo Yang
diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
index deab51ddc33e..4884cb33845d 100644
--- a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
+++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ SPI MESSAGE QUEUE
 The bulk of the driver will be managing the I/O queue fed by transfer().
 
 That queue could be purely conceptual.  For example, a driver used only
-for low-frequency sensor acess might be fine using synchronous PIO.
+for low-frequency sensor access might be fine using synchronous PIO.
 
 But the queue will probably be very real, using message->queue, PIO,
 often DMA (especially if the root filesystem is in SPI flash), and
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index a028b92001ed..8f7a0e73ef44 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -139,9 +139,9 @@ core_pattern is used to specify a core dumpfile pattern name.
 core_pipe_limit:
 
 This sysctl is only applicable when core_pattern is configured to pipe core
-files to user space helper a (when the first character of core_pattern is a '|',
+files to a user space helper (when the first character of core_pattern is a '|',
 see above).  When collecting cores via a pipe to an application, it is
-occasionally usefull for the collecting application to gather data about the
+occasionally useful for the collecting application to gather data about the
 crashing process from its /proc/pid directory.  In order to do this safely, the
 kernel must wait for the collecting process to exit, so as not to remove the
 crashing processes proc files prematurely.  This in turn creates the possibility
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ applications in parallel.  If this value is exceeded, then those crashing
 processes above that value are noted via the kernel log and their cores are
 skipped.  0 is a special value, indicating that unlimited processes may be
 captured in parallel, but that no waiting will take place (i.e. the collecting
-process is not guaranteed access to /proc/<crahing pid>/).  This value defaults
+process is not guaranteed access to /proc/<crashing pid>/).  This value defaults
 to 0.
 
 ==============================================================
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index a6e360d2055c..fc5790d36cd9 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ The default is 1 percent.
 mmap_min_addr
 
 This file indicates the amount of address space  which a user process will
-be restricted from mmaping.  Since kernel null dereference bugs could
+be restricted from mmapping.  Since kernel null dereference bugs could
 accidentally operate based on the information in the first couple of pages
 of memory userspace processes should not be allowed to write to them.  By
 default this value is set to 0 and no protections will be enforced by the
diff --git a/Documentation/timers/hpet.txt b/Documentation/timers/hpet.txt
index 04763a325520..16d25e6b5a00 100644
--- a/Documentation/timers/hpet.txt
+++ b/Documentation/timers/hpet.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 The High Precision Event Timer (HPET) hardware follows a specification
 by Intel and Microsoft which can be found at
 
-        http://www.intel.com/technology/architecture/hpetspec.htm
+        http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf
 
 Each HPET has one fixed-rate counter (at 10+ MHz, hence "High Precision")
 and up to 32 comparators.  Normally three or more comparators are provided,
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/gspca.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/gspca.txt
index 3f61825be499..6b29555b58b7 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/gspca.txt
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/gspca.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The modules are:
 
 xxxx            vend:prod
 ----
-spca501         0000:0000       MystFromOri Unknow Camera
+spca501         0000:0000       MystFromOri Unknown Camera
 m5602           0402:5602       ALi Video Camera Controller
 spca501         040a:0002       Kodak DVC-325
 spca500         040a:0300       Kodak EZ200
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page-types.c b/Documentation/vm/page-types.c
index 4793c6aac733..ea44ea502da1 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/page-types.c
+++ b/Documentation/vm/page-types.c
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static char *page_flag_name(uint64_t flags)
                 present = (flags >> i) & 1;
                 if (!page_flag_names[i]) {
                         if (present)
-                                fatal("unkown flag bit %d\n", i);
+                                fatal("unknown flag bit %d\n", i);
                         continue;
                 }
                 buf[j++] = present ? page_flag_names[i][0] : '_';
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt
index 510917ff59ed..b37300edf27c 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ been overwritten. Here a string of 8 characters was written into a slab that
 has the length of 8 characters. However, a 8 character string needs a
 terminating 0. That zero has overwritten the first byte of the Redzone field.
 After reporting the details of the issue encountered the FIX SLUB message
-tell us that SLUB has restored the Redzone to its proper value and then
+tells us that SLUB has restored the Redzone to its proper value and then
 system operations continue.
 
 Emergency operations: