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Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <[email protected]>
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CREDITS

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D: Assorted VIA x86 support.
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D: 2.5 AGPGART overhaul.
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D: CPUFREQ maintenance.
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D: Fedora kernel maintainence.
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D: Fedora kernel maintenance.
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D: Misc/Other.
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S: 314 Littleton Rd, Westford, MA 01886, USA
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D: Frame buffer device maintainer
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D: input layer developement
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D: input layer development
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D: tty/console layer
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D: various mipsel devices
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S: 115 Carmel Avenue
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N: Manfred Spraul
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D: Lots of tiny hacks. Larger improvments to SysV IPC msg,
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D: Lots of tiny hacks. Larger improvements to SysV IPC msg,
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D: slab, pipe, select.
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Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-css

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Description: Contains the PIM/PAM/POM values, as reported by the
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channel subsystem when last queried by the common I/O
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layer (this implies that this attribute is not neccessarily
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layer (this implies that this attribute is not necessarily
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in sync with the values current in the channel subsystem).
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Note: This is an I/O-subchannel specific attribute.
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Users: s390-tools, HAL

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led

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Description:
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Invert the LED on/off state. This parameter is specific to
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gpio and backlight triggers. In case of the backlight trigger,
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it is usefull when driving a LED which is intended to indicate
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it is useful when driving a LED which is intended to indicate
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a device in a standby like state.

Documentation/DocBook/dvb/dvbproperty.xml

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<para>Central frequency of the channel.</para>
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<para>For ISDB-T the channels are usally transmitted with an offset of 143kHz. E.g. a
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<para>For ISDB-T the channels are usually transmitted with an offset of 143kHz. E.g. a
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valid frequncy could be 474143 kHz. The stepping is bound to the bandwidth of
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the channel which is 6MHz.</para>
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Documentation/DocBook/dvb/frontend.xml

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<section id="frontend_sec_tone">
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<para>The continous 22KHz tone is usually used with non-DiSEqC capable LNBs to switch the
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<para>The continuous 22KHz tone is usually used with non-DiSEqC capable LNBs to switch the
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high/low band of a dual-band LNB. When using DiSEqC epuipment this voltage has to
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Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl

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There is a furthur optimization possible here: remember our original
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cache code, where there were no reference counts and the caller simply
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held the lock whenever using the object? This is still possible: if
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you hold the lock, noone can delete the object, so you don't need to
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you hold the lock, no one can delete the object, so you don't need to
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get and put the reference count.
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Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl

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<para>
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means that corruption occurred during data transfer. Up to
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ATA/ATAPI-7, the standard specifies that this bit is only
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<term>ABRT error during data transfer or on completion</term>
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set on ICRC errors and on cases where a device is not able
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to complete a command. Combined with the fact that MWDMA
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and PIO transfer errors aren't allowed to use ICRC bit upto
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and PIO transfer errors aren't allowed to use ICRC bit up to
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ATA/ATAPI-7, it seems to imply that ABRT bit alone could
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<para>
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Depending on commands, not all STATUS/ERROR bits are
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&quot;na&quot; in the output descriptions but up to ATA/ATAPI-7
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Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl

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