From f4baccdea5eb8deaf27dca6afd6ec86c29ca273c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tamara Diaconita Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 01:05:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: acpi: Fix typos Fix typos in acpi directory to make documentation grammatically correct. Signed-off-by: Tamara Diaconita Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/acpi/aml-debugger.txt | 2 +- Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt | 6 +++--- Documentation/acpi/linuxized-acpica.txt | 6 +++--- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/aml-debugger.txt b/Documentation/acpi/aml-debugger.txt index 5f62aa4a493b..e851cc5de63f 100644 --- a/Documentation/acpi/aml-debugger.txt +++ b/Documentation/acpi/aml-debugger.txt @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ kernel. CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUGGER=y CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUGGER_USER=m - The userspace utlities can be built from the kernel source tree using + The userspace utilities can be built from the kernel source tree using the following commands: $ cd tools diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt index 209a5eba6b87..7bcf9c3d9fbe 100644 --- a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt +++ b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt @@ -367,10 +367,10 @@ resulting child platform device. Device Tree namespace link device ID ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The Device Tree protocol uses device indentification based on the "compatible" +The Device Tree protocol uses device identification based on the "compatible" property whose value is a string or an array of strings recognized as device identifiers by drivers and the driver core. The set of all those strings may be -regarded as a device indentification namespace analogous to the ACPI/PNP device +regarded as a device identification namespace analogous to the ACPI/PNP device ID namespace. Consequently, in principle it should not be necessary to allocate a new (and arguably redundant) ACPI/PNP device ID for a devices with an existing identification string in the Device Tree (DT) namespace, especially if that ID @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ In ACPI, the device identification object called _CID (Compatible ID) is used to list the IDs of devices the given one is compatible with, but those IDs must belong to one of the namespaces prescribed by the ACPI specification (see Section 6.1.2 of ACPI 6.0 for details) and the DT namespace is not one of them. -Moreover, the specification mandates that either a _HID or an _ADR identificaion +Moreover, the specification mandates that either a _HID or an _ADR identification object be present for all ACPI objects representing devices (Section 6.1 of ACPI 6.0). For non-enumerable bus types that object must be _HID and its value must be a device ID from one of the namespaces prescribed by the specification too. diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/linuxized-acpica.txt b/Documentation/acpi/linuxized-acpica.txt index defe2eec5331..02ebade88afc 100644 --- a/Documentation/acpi/linuxized-acpica.txt +++ b/Documentation/acpi/linuxized-acpica.txt @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ upstream. Linux patches. The patches generated by this process are referred to as "linuxized ACPICA patches". The release process is carried out on a local copy the ACPICA git repository. Each commit in the monthly release is - converted into a linuxized ACPICA patch. Together, they form the montly + converted into a linuxized ACPICA patch. Together, they form the monthly ACPICA release patchset for the Linux ACPI community. This process is illustrated in the following figure: @@ -195,12 +195,12 @@ upstream. release utilities (please refer to Section 4 below for the details). 3. Linux specific features - Sometimes it's impossible to use the current ACPICA APIs to implement features required by the Linux kernel, - so Linux developers occasionaly have to change ACPICA code directly. + so Linux developers occasionally have to change ACPICA code directly. Those changes may not be acceptable by ACPICA upstream and in such cases they are left as committed ACPICA divergences unless the ACPICA side can implement new mechanisms as replacements for them. 4. ACPICA release fixups - ACPICA only tests commits using a set of the - user space simulation utilies, thus the linuxized ACPICA patches may + user space simulation utilities, thus the linuxized ACPICA patches may break the Linux kernel, leaving us build/boot failures. In order to avoid breaking Linux bisection, fixes are applied directly to the linuxized ACPICA patches during the release process. When the release -- 2.20.1