Commit 806654a9 authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst" 



Whilst making an unrelated change to some Documentation, Linus sayeth:

  | Afaik, even in Britain, "whilst" is unusual and considered more
  | formal, and "while" is the common word.
  |
  | [...]
  |
  | Can we just admit that we work with computers, and we don't need to
  | use þe eald Englisc spelling of words that most of the world never
  | uses?

dictionary.com refers to the word as "Chiefly British", which is
probably an undesirable attribute for technical documentation.

Replace all occurrences under Documentation/ with "while".

Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reported-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 48c465d2

Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt

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			APC and your system crashes randomly.



	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller

			Change the output verbosity whilst booting

			Change the output verbosity while booting

			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }

			Change the amount of debugging information output

			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.

Documentation/admin-guide/security-bugs.rst

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rule is if the bug is publicly known, in which case the preference is to

release the fix as soon as it's available.



Whilst embargoed information may be shared with trusted individuals in

While embargoed information may be shared with trusted individuals in

order to develop a fix, such information will not be published alongside

the fix or on any other disclosure channel without the permission of the

reporter.  This includes but is not limited to the original bug report

Documentation/arm/Booting

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The boot loader must pass at a minimum the size and location of the

system memory, and the root filesystem location.  The dtb must be

placed in a region of memory where the kernel decompressor will not

overwrite it, whilst remaining within the region which will be covered

overwrite it, while remaining within the region which will be covered

by the kernel's low-memory mapping.



A safe location is just above the 128MiB boundary from start of RAM.

Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/GPIO.txt

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   as they have the same arguments, and can either take the pin specific

   values, or the more generic special-function-number arguments.



3) s3c2410_gpio_pullup() changes have the problem that whilst the

3) s3c2410_gpio_pullup() changes have the problem that while the

   s3c2410_gpio_pullup(x, 1) can be easily translated to the

   s3c_gpio_setpull(x, S3C_GPIO_PULL_NONE), the s3c2410_gpio_pullup(x, 0)

   are not so easy.

Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt

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  versions.



  The S3C2416 and S3C2450 devices are very similar and S3C2450 support is

  included under the arch/arm/mach-s3c2416 directory. Note, whilst core

  included under the arch/arm/mach-s3c2416 directory. Note, while core

  support for these SoCs is in, work on some of the extra peripherals

  and extra interrupts is still ongoing.

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