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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions CREDITS
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D: Assorted VIA x86 support.
D: 2.5 AGPGART overhaul.
D: CPUFREQ maintenance.
D: Fedora kernel maintainence.
D: Fedora kernel maintenance.
D: Misc/Other.
S: 314 Littleton Rd, Westford, MA 01886, USA

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E: jsimmons@infradead.org
E: jsimmons@users.sf.net
D: Frame buffer device maintainer
D: input layer developement
D: input layer development
D: tty/console layer
D: various mipsel devices
S: 115 Carmel Avenue
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N: Manfred Spraul
E: manfred@colorfullife.com
W: http://www.colorfullife.com/~manfred
D: Lots of tiny hacks. Larger improvments to SysV IPC msg,
D: Lots of tiny hacks. Larger improvements to SysV IPC msg,
D: slab, pipe, select.
S: 71701 Schwieberdingen
S: Germany
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-css
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linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Description: Contains the PIM/PAM/POM values, as reported by the
channel subsystem when last queried by the common I/O
layer (this implies that this attribute is not neccessarily
layer (this implies that this attribute is not necessarily
in sync with the values current in the channel subsystem).
Note: This is an I/O-subchannel specific attribute.
Users: s390-tools, HAL
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Description:
Invert the LED on/off state. This parameter is specific to
gpio and backlight triggers. In case of the backlight trigger,
it is usefull when driving a LED which is intended to indicate
it is useful when driving a LED which is intended to indicate
a device in a standby like state.
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/DocBook/dvb/dvbproperty.xml
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<para>Central frequency of the channel.</para>

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

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<section id="frontend_sec_tone">
<title>SEC continuous tone</title>

<para>The continous 22KHz tone is usually used with non-DiSEqC capable LNBs to switch the
<para>The continuous 22KHz tone is usually used with non-DiSEqC capable LNBs to switch the
high/low band of a dual-band LNB. When using DiSEqC epuipment this voltage has to
be switched consistently to the DiSEqC commands as described in the DiSEqC
spec.</para>
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There is a furthur optimization possible here: remember our original
cache code, where there were no reference counts and the caller simply
held the lock whenever using the object? This is still possible: if
you hold the lock, noone can delete the object, so you don't need to
you hold the lock, no one can delete the object, so you don't need to
get and put the reference count.
</para>

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<listitem>
<para>
This is indicated by ICRC bit in the ERROR register and
means that corruption occurred during data transfer. Upto
means that corruption occurred during data transfer. Up to
ATA/ATAPI-7, the standard specifies that this bit is only
applicable to UDMA transfers but ATA/ATAPI-8 draft revision
1f says that the bit may be applicable to multiword DMA and
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<term>ABRT error during data transfer or on completion</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Upto ATA/ATAPI-7, the standard specifies that ABRT could be
Up to ATA/ATAPI-7, the standard specifies that ABRT could be
set on ICRC errors and on cases where a device is not able
to complete a command. Combined with the fact that MWDMA
and PIO transfer errors aren't allowed to use ICRC bit upto
and PIO transfer errors aren't allowed to use ICRC bit up to
ATA/ATAPI-7, it seems to imply that ABRT bit alone could
indicate tranfer errors.
</para>
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<para>
Depending on commands, not all STATUS/ERROR bits are
applicable. These non-applicable bits are marked with
&quot;na&quot; in the output descriptions but upto ATA/ATAPI-7
&quot;na&quot; in the output descriptions but up to ATA/ATAPI-7
no definition of &quot;na&quot; can be found. However,
ATA/ATAPI-8 draft revision 1f describes &quot;N/A&quot; as
follows.
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<listitem>
<para>
CHS set up with INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS (seldomly used)
CHS set up with INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS (seldom used)
</para>
</listitem>

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Reed-Solomon library.
</para>
<para>
The ECC bytes must be placed immidiately after the data
The ECC bytes must be placed immediately after the data
bytes in order to make the syndrome generator work. This
is contrary to the usual layout used by software ECC. The
separation of data and out of band area is not longer
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holds the bad block table. Store a pointer to the pattern
in the pattern field. Further the length of the pattern has to be
stored in len and the offset in the spare area must be given
in the offs member of the nand_bbt_descr stucture. For mirrored
in the offs member of the nand_bbt_descr structure. For mirrored
bad block tables different patterns are mandatory.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Table creation</para>
<para>Set the option NAND_BBT_CREATE to enable the table creation
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<listitem><para>Table version control</para>
<para>Set the option NAND_BBT_VERSION to enable the table version control.
It's highly recommended to enable this for mirrored tables with write
support. It makes sure that the risk of loosing the bad block
support. It makes sure that the risk of losing the bad block
table information is reduced to the loss of the information about the
one worn out block which should be marked bad. The version is stored in
4 consecutive bytes in the spare area of the device. The position of
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<row>
<entry>0x3D</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 21</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the eigth 256 Bytes of data
<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the eighth 256 Bytes of data
in this page</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x3E</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 22</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the eigth 256 Bytes of data
<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the eighth 256 Bytes of data
in this page</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x3F</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 23</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the eigth 256 Bytes of data
<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the eighth 256 Bytes of data
in this page</entry>
</row>
</tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
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<sect1 id="machine-constraint">
<title>Constraints</title>
<para>
As well as definining the connections the machine interface
also provides constraints definining the operations that
As well as defining the connections the machine interface
also provides constraints defining the operations that
clients are allowed to perform and the parameters that may be
set. This is required since generally regulator devices will
offer more flexibility than it is safe to use on a given
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perform some initialization. After that, your hardware
starts working and will generate an interrupt as soon
as it's finished, has some data available, or needs your
attention because an error occured.
attention because an error occurred.
</para>
<para>
<filename>/dev/uioX</filename> is a read-only file. A
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</para><para>
This request lets kernel drivers talk to user mode code
through filesystem operations even when they don't create
a charactor or block special device.
a character or block special device.
It's also been used to do things like ask devices what
device special file should be used.
Two pre-defined ioctls are used
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<para>By convention system administrators create various
character device special files with these major and minor numbers in
the <filename>/dev</filename> directory. The names recomended for the
the <filename>/dev</filename> directory. The names recommended for the
different V4L2 device types are listed in <xref linkend="devices" />.
</para>

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</row><row><entry spanname="descr">Mutes the audio when
capturing. This is not done by muting audio hardware, which can still
produce a slight hiss, but in the encoder itself, guaranteeing a fixed
and reproducable audio bitstream. 0 = unmuted, 1 = muted.</entry>
and reproducible audio bitstream. 0 = unmuted, 1 = muted.</entry>
</row>
<row><entry></entry></row>
<row id="v4l2-mpeg-video-encoding">
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processing hardware.</para>

<figure id="pipeline-scaling">
<title>Image Format Negotation on Pipelines</title>
<title>Image Format Negotiation on Pipelines</title>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="pipeline.pdf" format="PS" />
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<para>int v4l2_get_control(int fd, int cid) -
This function returns a value of 0 - 65535, scaled to from the actual range
of the given v4l control id. when the cid does not exist, could not be
accessed for some reason, or some error occured 0 is returned.
accessed for some reason, or some error occurred 0 is returned.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
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<row><entry><constant>KEY_LEFT</constant></entry><entry>Left key</entry><entry>LEFT</entry></row>
<row><entry><constant>KEY_RIGHT</constant></entry><entry>Right key</entry><entry>RIGHT</entry></row>

<row><entry><emphasis role="bold">Miscelaneous keys</emphasis></entry></row>
<row><entry><emphasis role="bold">Miscellaneous keys</emphasis></entry></row>

<row><entry><constant>KEY_DOT</constant></entry><entry>Return a dot</entry><entry>.</entry></row>
<row><entry><constant>KEY_FN</constant></entry><entry>Select a function</entry><entry>FUNCTION</entry></row>
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FM registers can be directly accessed through the direct-FM API,
defined in <filename>&lt;sound/asound_fm.h&gt;</filename>. In
ALSA native mode, FM registers are accessed through
the Hardware-Dependant Device direct-FM extension API, whereas in
the Hardware-Dependent Device direct-FM extension API, whereas in
OSS compatible mode, FM registers can be accessed with the OSS
direct-FM compatible API in <filename>/dev/dmfmX</filename> device.
</para>
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must be a power of two). In addition, the MSI interrupt vectors must
be allocated consecutively, so the system may not be able to allocate
as many vectors for MSI as it could for MSI-X. On some platforms, MSI
interrupts must all be targetted at the same set of CPUs whereas MSI-X
interrupts can all be targetted at different CPUs.
interrupts must all be targeted at the same set of CPUs whereas MSI-X
interrupts can all be targeted at different CPUs.

4.5.2 Spinlocks

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A disclosure date is negotiated by the security team working with the
bug submitter as well as vendors. However, the kernel security team
holds the final say when setting a disclosure date. The timeframe for
disclosure is from immediate (esp. if it's already publically known)
disclosure is from immediate (esp. if it's already publicly known)
to a few weeks. As a basic default policy, we expect report date to
disclosure date to be on the order of 7 days.

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complete overview of the power management issues related to
drivers see Documentation/power/devices.txt .

Control: In general if there is active maintainance of a driver by
Control: In general if there is active maintenance of a driver by
the author then patches will be redirected to them unless
they are totally obvious and without need of checking.
If you want to be the contact and update point for the
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<http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/7/183>

Andi Kleen, "On submitting kernel patches"
Some strategies to get difficult or controversal changes in.
Some strategies to get difficult or controversial changes in.
http://halobates.de/on-submitting-patches.pdf

--
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- Timers (watchdog, OS)

The following components of the chips are not supported by Linux and
require the use of Intel's propietary CSR softare:
require the use of Intel's proprietary CSR softare:

- USB device interface
- Network interfaces (HSS, Utopia, NPEs, etc)
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http://developer.intel.com/design/network/products/npfamily/ixp425.htm

DO NOT POST QUESTIONS TO THE LINUX MAILING LISTS REGARDING THE PROPIETARY
DO NOT POST QUESTIONS TO THE LINUX MAILING LISTS REGARDING THE PROPRIETARY
SOFTWARE.

There are several websites that provide directions/pointers on using
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Allows the entire memory to be checksummed before and after the
suspend to see if there has been any corruption of the contents.

Note, the time to calculate the CRC is dependant on the CPU speed
Note, the time to calculate the CRC is dependent on the CPU speed
and the size of memory. For an 64Mbyte RAM area on an 200MHz
S3C2410, this can take approximately 4 seconds to complete.

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------------

This outlines the Samsung GPIO implementation and the architecture
specfic calls provided alongisde the drivers/gpio core.
specific calls provided alongisde the drivers/gpio core.


S3C24XX (Legacy)
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entries with their corresponding dma address mappings filled in at the
appropriate time. As an optimization, contiguous physical pages can be
covered by a single entry where <page> refers to the first page and <len>
covers the range of pages (upto 16 contiguous pages could be covered this
covers the range of pages (up to 16 contiguous pages could be covered this
way). There is a helper routine (blk_rq_map_sg) which drivers can use to build
the sg list.

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.
int tag; /* command tag associated with request */
void *special; /* same as before */
char *buffer; /* valid only for low memory buffers upto
char *buffer; /* valid only for low memory buffers up to
current_nr_sectors */
.
.
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#To display the current cpu state.
#cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online

Q: Why cant i remove CPU0 on some systems?
Q: Why can't i remove CPU0 on some systems?
A: Some architectures may have some special dependency on a certain CPU.

For e.g in IA64 platforms we have ability to sent platform interrupts to the
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file.
This file is then copied to /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data.
Once this file gets to the driver, the driver extracts packet_size data from
the file and spreads it accross the physical memory in contiguous packet_sized
the file and spreads it across the physical memory in contiguous packet_sized
space.
This method makes sure that all the packets get to the driver in a single operation.

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=========

dm-service-time adds the I/O size to 'in-flight-size' when the I/O is
dispatched and substracts when completed.
dispatched and subtracts when completed.
Basically, dm-service-time selects a path having minimum service time
which is calculated by:

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- edid : verbatim EDID data block describing attached display.
Data from the detailed timing descriptor will be used to
program the display controller.
- little-endian: availiable on big endian systems, to
- little-endian: available on big endian systems, to
set different foreign endian.
- big-endian: availiable on little endian systems, to
- big-endian: available on little endian systems, to
set different foreign endian.

Example for MPC5200:
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- gpios : may specify optional GPIOs connected to the Ready-Not-Busy pins
(R/B#). For multi-chip devices, "n" GPIO definitions are required
according to the number of chips.
- chip-delay : chip dependent delay for transfering data from array to
- chip-delay : chip dependent delay for transferring data from array to
read registers (tR). Required if property "gpios" is not used
(R/B# pins not connected).

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- nxp,no-comparator-bypass : Allows to disable the CAN input comperator.

For futher information, please have a look to the SJA1000 data sheet.
For further information, please have a look to the SJA1000 data sheet.

Examples:

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