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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/IXP4xx2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/digiepca.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/memory-barriers.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl2
6 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl
index 6e463d0db266..999afe1ca8cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl
@@ -189,9 +189,9 @@ static unsigned long baseaddr;
<sect1>
<title>Partition defines</title>
<para>
- If you want to divide your device into parititions, then
- enable the configuration switch CONFIG_MTD_PARITIONS and define
- a paritioning scheme suitable to your board.
+ If you want to divide your device into partitions, then
+ enable the configuration switch CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS and define
+ a partitioning scheme suitable to your board.
</para>
<programlisting>
#define NUM_PARTITIONS 2
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/IXP4xx b/Documentation/arm/IXP4xx
index d4c6d3aa0c25..43edb4ecf27d 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/IXP4xx
+++ b/Documentation/arm/IXP4xx
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ IXP4xx provides two methods of accessing PCI memory space:
2) If > 64MB of memory space is required, the IXP4xx can be
configured to use indirect registers to access PCI This allows
for up to 128MB (0x48000000 to 0x4fffffff) of memory on the bus.
- The disadvantadge of this is that every PCI access requires
+ The disadvantage of this is that every PCI access requires
three local register accesses plus a spinlock, but in some
cases the performance hit is acceptable. In addition, you cannot
mmap() PCI devices in this case due to the indirect nature
diff --git a/Documentation/digiepca.txt b/Documentation/digiepca.txt
index 88820fe38dad..f2560e22f2c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/digiepca.txt
+++ b/Documentation/digiepca.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ NOTE: This driver is obsolete. Digi provides a 2.6 driver (dgdm) at
http://www.digi.com for PCI cards. They no longer maintain this driver,
and have no 2.6 driver for ISA cards.
-This driver requires a number of user-space tools. They can be aquired from
+This driver requires a number of user-space tools. They can be acquired from
http://www.digi.com, but only works with 2.4 kernels.
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index cf0d5416a4c3..28d1bc3edb1c 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ Consider the following sequence of events:
This sequence of events is committed to the memory coherence system in an order
that the rest of the system might perceive as the unordered set of { STORE A,
-STORE B, STORE C } all occuring before the unordered set of { STORE D, STORE E
+STORE B, STORE C } all occurring before the unordered set of { STORE D, STORE E
}:
+-------+ : :
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
index 278771c9ad99..44f2f769e865 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Examples:
pgset "pkt_size 9014" sets packet size to 9014
pgset "frags 5" packet will consist of 5 fragments
pgset "count 200000" sets number of packets to send, set to zero
- for continious sends untill explicitl stopped.
+ for continuous sends until explicitly stopped.
pgset "delay 5000" adds delay to hard_start_xmit(). nanoseconds
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl b/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl
index 635cbb94357c..bb18115d5170 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl
@@ -3048,7 +3048,7 @@ struct _snd_pcm_runtime {
</para>
<para>
- If you aquire a spinlock in the interrupt handler, and the
+ If you acquire a spinlock in the interrupt handler, and the
lock is used in other pcm callbacks, too, then you have to
release the lock before calling
<function>snd_pcm_period_elapsed()</function>, because
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