[PATCH] Documentation fixes
From: Daniel Walker
Date: Wed Jul 06 2005 - 18:18:22 EST
I noticed some typo's or mis-thoughts .. Here are my corrections. I
tried to CC all the authors.
Daniel
Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx>
Index: linux-2.6.12/Documentation/ManagementStyle
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.12.orig/Documentation/ManagementStyle 2005-06-17 19:48:29.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.12/Documentation/ManagementStyle 2005-07-03 18:55:03.000000000 +0000
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ These suggestions may or may not apply t
First off, I'd suggest buying "Seven Habits of Highly Successful
People", and NOT read it. Burn it, it's a great symbolic gesture.
-(*) This document does so not so much by answering the question, but by
-making it painfully obvious to the questioner that we don't have a clue
-to what the answer is.
+(*) This document doesn't do much to answer the questions, but makes
+it painfully obvious to the questioner that we don't have a clue as to
+what the answers are.
Anyway, here goes:
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Namely that you are in the wrong job, an
your brilliance instead).
So the name of the game is to _avoid_ decisions, at least the big and
-painful ones. Making small and non-consequential decisions is fine, and
+painful ones. Making small and inconsequential decisions is fine, and
makes you look like you know what you're doing, so what a kernel manager
needs to do is to turn the big and painful ones into small things where
nobody really cares.
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ a kernel manager have huge fiscal respon
fairly easy to backtrack. Since you're not going to be able to waste
huge amounts of money that you might not be able to repay, the only
thing you can backtrack on is a technical decision, and there
-back-tracking is very easy: just tell everybody that you were an
+backtracking is very easy: just tell everybody that you were an
incompetent nincompoop, say you're sorry, and undo all the worthless
work you had people work on for the last year. Suddenly the decision
you made a year ago wasn't a big decision after all, since it could be
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ To solve this problem, you really only h
The option of being unfailingly polite really doesn't exist. Nobody will
trust somebody who is so clearly hiding his true character.
-(*) Paul Simon sang "Fifty Ways to Lose Your Lover", because quite
+(*) Paul Simon sang "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover", because quite
frankly, "A Million Ways to Tell a Developer He Is a D*ckhead" doesn't
scan nearly as well. But I'm sure he thought about it.
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ sadly that you are one too, and that whi
knowledge that we're better than the average person (let's face it,
nobody ever believes that they're average or below-average), we should
also admit that we're not the sharpest knife around, and there will be
-other people that are less of an idiot that you are.
+other people that are less of an idiot than you are.
Some people react badly to smart people. Others take advantage of them.
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ a while, and you'll feel cleansed. Just
Chapter 6: Why me?
Since your main responsibility seems to be to take the blame for other
-peoples mistakes, and make it painfully obvious to everybody else that
+peoples' mistakes, and make it painfully obvious to everybody else that
you're incompetent, the obvious question becomes one of why do it in the
first place?
Index: linux-2.6.12/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt
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--- linux-2.6.12.orig/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt 2005-06-17 19:48:29.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.12/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt 2005-07-03 18:21:28.000000000 +0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
[NMI watchdog is available for x86 and x86-64 architectures]
Is your system locking up unpredictably? No keyboard activity, just
-a frustrating complete hard lockup? Do you want to help us debugging
+a frustrating complete hard lockup? Do you want to help us in debugging
such lockups? If all yes then this document is definitely for you.
On many x86/x86-64 type hardware there is a feature that enables
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ you have to enable it with a boot time p
the NMI-oopser is enabled unconditionally on x86 SMP boxes.
On x86-64 the NMI oopser is on by default. On 64bit Intel CPUs
-it uses IO-APIC by default and on AMD it uses local APIC.
+it uses the IO-APIC by default and on AMD it uses the local APIC.
[ feel free to send bug reports, suggestions and patches to
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> or the Linux SMP mailing
Index: linux-2.6.12/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.12.orig/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt 2005-06-17 19:48:29.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.12/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt 2005-07-03 18:04:41.000000000 +0000
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ to extra work for the USB developers. S
their work on their own time, asking programmers to do extra work for no
gain, for free, is not a possibility.
-Security issues are also a very important for Linux. When a
+Security issues are also very important for Linux. When a
security issue is found, it is fixed in a very short amount of time. A
number of times this has caused internal kernel interfaces to be
reworked to prevent the security problem from occurring. When this
Index: linux-2.6.12/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.12.orig/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog.txt 2005-06-17 19:48:29.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.12/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog.txt 2005-07-03 18:12:40.000000000 +0000
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@ The following watchdog drivers are curre
All six interfaces provide /dev/watchdog, which when open must be written
to within a timeout or the machine will reboot. Each write delays the reboot
time another timeout. In the case of the software watchdog the ability to
-reboot will depend on the state of the machines and interrupts. The hardware
+reboot will depend on the state of the machine and interrupts. The hardware
boards physically pull the machine down off their own onboard timers and
will reboot from almost anything.
A second temperature monitoring interface is available on the WDT501P cards
-and some Berkshire cards. This provides /dev/temperature. This is the machine
+and some Berkshire cards. This provides /dev/temperature. This is the machines
internal temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. Each read returns a single byte
giving the temperature.
@@ -37,16 +37,16 @@ The wdt card cannot be safely probed for
wdt=ioaddr,irq as a boot parameter - eg "wdt=0x240,11".
The SA1100 watchdog module can be configured with the "sa1100_margin"
-commandline argument which specifies timeout value in seconds.
+commandline argument which specifies the timeout value in seconds.
The i810 TCO watchdog modules can be configured with the "i810_margin"
-commandline argument which specifies the counter initial value. The counter
-is decremented every 0.6 seconds and default to 50 (30 seconds). Values can
+commandline argument which specifies the counters initial value. The counter
+is decremented every 0.6 seconds and defaults to 50 (30 seconds). Values can
range between 3 and 63.
The i810 TCO watchdog driver also implements the WDIOC_GETSTATUS and
WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS ioctl()s. WDIOC_GETSTATUS returns the actual counter value
-and WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS returns the value of TCO2 Status Register (see Intel's
+and WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS returns the value of the TCO2 Status Register (see Intel's
documentation for the 82801AA and 82801AB datasheet).
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