Commit 992caacf authored by Matt LaPlante's avatar Matt LaPlante Committed by Adrian Bunk
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Fix typos in Documentation/: 'N'-'P'



This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'N'-'P'.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
parent 2fe0ae78
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@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ MTD
---

  The NAND and NOR support has been merged from the linux-mtd project.
  Any prolbems, see http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/ for more
  Any problems, see http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/ for more
  information or up-to-date versions of linux-mtd.


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@@ -99,8 +99,8 @@ contrast, many write requests may be dispatched to the disk controller
at a time during a write batch.  It is this characteristic that can make
the anticipatory scheduler perform anomalously with controllers supporting
TCQ, or with hardware striped RAID devices. Setting the antic_expire
queue paramter (see below) to zero disables this behavior, and the anticipatory
scheduler behaves essentially like the deadline scheduler.
queue parameter (see below) to zero disables this behavior, and the 
anticipatory scheduler behaves essentially like the deadline scheduler.

When read anticipation is enabled (antic_expire is not zero), reads
are dispatched to the disk controller one at a time.
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@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ iii. Devices which have queue depth of 1. This is a degenerate case
of ii.  Just keeping issue order suffices.  Ancient SCSI
controllers/drives and IDE drives are in this category.

2. Forced flushing to physcial medium
2. Forced flushing to physical medium

Again, if you're not gonna do synchronization with disk drives (dang,
it sounds even more appealing now!), the reason you use I/O barriers
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@@ -137,11 +137,11 @@ have to be made in a row before the CPU frequency is actually lower.
If set to '1' then the frequency decreases as quickly as it increases,
if set to '2' it decreases at half the rate of the increase.

ignore_nice_load: this parameter takes a value of '0' or '1', when set
to '0' (its default) then all processes are counted towards towards the
'cpu utilisation' value.   When set to '1' then processes that are
ignore_nice_load: this parameter takes a value of '0' or '1'. When
set to '0' (its default), all processes are counted towards the
'cpu utilisation' value.  When set to '1', the processes that are
run with a 'nice' value will not count (and thus be ignored) in the
overal usage calculation.  This is useful if you are running a CPU
overall usage calculation.  This is useful if you are running a CPU
intensive calculation on your laptop that you do not care how long it
takes to complete as you can 'nice' it and prevent it from taking part
in the deciding process of whether to increase your CPU frequency.
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@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ echo packet > /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/image_type
In packet update mode the packet size has to be given before any packets can
be downloaded. It is done as below
echo XXXX > /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size
In the packet update mechanism, the user neesd to create a new file having
In the packet update mechanism, the user needs to create a new file having
packets of data arranged back to back. It can be done as follows
The user creates packets header, gets the chunk of the BIOS image and
places it next to the packetheader; now, the packetheader + BIOS image chunk
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ read back the image downloaded.
NOTE:
This driver requires a patch for firmware_class.c which has the modified
request_firmware_nowait function.
Also after updating the BIOS image an user mdoe application neeeds to execute
code which message the BIOS update request to the BIOS. So on the next reboot
Also after updating the BIOS image a user mode application needs to execute
code which sends the BIOS update request to the BIOS. So on the next reboot
the BIOS knows about the new image downloaded and it updates itself.
Also don't unload the rbu drive if the image has to be updated.
Also don't unload the rbu driver if the image has to be updated.
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