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Fix "can not" in Documentation and Kconfig

Randy brought it to my attention that in proper english "can not" should always
be written "cannot". I donot see any reason to argue, even if I mightnot
understand why this rule exists. This patch fixes "can not" in several
Documentation files as well as three Kconfigs.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

authored by

Matt LaPlante and committed by
Adrian Bunk
84eb8d06 992caacf

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Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt
··· 117 117 device supports. It returns zero if your card can perform DMA 118 118 properly on the machine given the address mask you provided. 119 119 120 - If it returns non-zero, your device can not perform DMA properly on 120 + If it returns non-zero, your device cannot perform DMA properly on 121 121 this platform, and attempting to do so will result in undefined 122 122 behavior. You must either use a different mask, or not use DMA. 123 123
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Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
··· 1733 1733 1734 1734 These parameters are used to limit how many ICMP destination unreachable to 1735 1735 send from the host in question. ICMP destination unreachable messages are 1736 - sent when we can not reach the next hop, while trying to transmit a packet. 1736 + sent when we cannot reach the next hop while trying to transmit a packet. 1737 1737 It will also print some error messages to kernel logs if someone is ignoring 1738 1738 our ICMP redirects. The higher the error_cost factor is, the fewer 1739 1739 destination unreachable and error messages will be let through. Error_burst
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Documentation/highuid.txt
··· 57 57 58 58 Other filesystems have not been checked yet. 59 59 60 - - The ncpfs and smpfs filesystems can not presently use 32-bit UIDs in 60 + - The ncpfs and smpfs filesystems cannot presently use 32-bit UIDs in 61 61 all ioctl()s. Some new ioctl()s have been added with 32-bit UIDs, but 62 62 more are needed. (as well as new user<->kernel data structures) 63 63
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Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt
··· 203 203 204 204 Source code comments read: 205 205 206 - This is tightly woven into the driver->do_special can not 206 + This is tightly woven into the driver->do_special cannot 207 207 touch. DON'T do it again until a total personality rewrite 208 208 is committed. 209 209
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Documentation/java.txt
··· 22 22 the kernel (CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC) and set it up properly. 23 23 If you choose to compile it as a module, you will have 24 24 to insert it manually with modprobe/insmod, as kmod 25 - can not easily be supported with binfmt_misc. 25 + cannot easily be supported with binfmt_misc. 26 26 Read the file 'binfmt_misc.txt' in this directory to know 27 27 more about the configuration process. 28 28
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Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
··· 611 611 noirqbalance [IA-32,SMP,KNL] Disable kernel irq balancing 612 612 613 613 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 614 - i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controlled can only read data from 615 - keyboard and can not control its state 614 + i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 615 + keyboard and cannot control its state 616 616 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 617 617 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 618 618 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
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Documentation/mono.txt
··· 26 26 the kernel (CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC) and set it up properly. 27 27 If you choose to compile it as a module, you will have 28 28 to insert it manually with modprobe/insmod, as kmod 29 - can not be easily supported with binfmt_misc. 29 + cannot be easily supported with binfmt_misc. 30 30 Read the file 'binfmt_misc.txt' in this directory to know 31 31 more about the configuration process. 32 32
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Documentation/networking/arcnet-hardware.txt
··· 139 139 140 140 5. An active hub to passive hub. 141 141 142 - Remember, that you can not connect two passive hubs together. The power loss 142 + Remember that you cannot connect two passive hubs together. The power loss 143 143 implied by such a connection is too high for the net to operate reliably. 144 144 145 145 An example of a typical ARCnet network:
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Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt
··· 584 584 585 585 1.) The system does not boot properly (or at all). 586 586 587 - 2.) The driver can not communicate with the adapter, reporting an "Adapter 587 + 2.) The driver cannot communicate with the adapter, reporting an "Adapter 588 588 not found" error message. 589 589 590 590 3.) You cannot connect to the network or the driver will not load.
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Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
··· 52 52 Netconsole was designed to be as instantaneous as possible, to 53 53 enable the logging of even the most critical kernel bugs. It works 54 54 from IRQ contexts as well, and does not enable interrupts while 55 - sending packets. Due to these unique needs, configuration can not 55 + sending packets. Due to these unique needs, configuration cannot 56 56 be more automatic, and some fundamental limitations will remain: 57 57 only IP networks, UDP packets and ethernet devices are supported.
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Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt
··· 484 484 following list: 485 485 486 486 487 - Problem: The SK-98xx adapter can not be found by the driver. 487 + Problem: The SK-98xx adapter cannot be found by the driver. 488 488 Solution: In /proc/pci search for the following entry: 489 489 'Ethernet controller: SysKonnect SK-98xx ...' 490 490 If this entry exists, the SK-98xx or SK-98xx V2.0 adapter has ··· 502 502 web, e.g. at 'www.linux.org'). 503 503 504 504 505 - Problem: Programs such as 'ifconfig' or 'route' can not be found or the 505 + Problem: Programs such as 'ifconfig' or 'route' cannot be found or the 506 506 error message 'Operation not permitted' is displayed. 507 507 Reason: You are not logged in as user 'root'. 508 508 Solution: Logout and login as 'root' or change to 'root' via 'su'.
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Documentation/networking/skfp.txt
··· 81 81 82 82 If you run into problems during installation, check those items: 83 83 84 - Problem: The FDDI adapter can not be found by the driver. 84 + Problem: The FDDI adapter cannot be found by the driver. 85 85 Reason: Look in /proc/pci for the following entry: 86 86 'FDDI network controller: SysKonnect SK-FDDI-PCI ...' 87 87 If this entry exists, then the FDDI adapter has been ··· 99 99 100 100 Problem: You want to use your computer as a router between 101 101 multiple IP subnetworks (using multiple adapters), but 102 - you can not reach computers in other subnetworks. 102 + you cannot reach computers in other subnetworks. 103 103 Reason: Either the router's kernel is not configured for IP 104 104 forwarding or there is a problem with the routing table 105 105 and gateway configuration in at least one of the
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Documentation/networking/tcp.txt
··· 62 62 unknown congestion method, then the sysctl attempt will fail. 63 63 64 64 If you remove a tcp congestion control module, then you will get the next 65 - available one. Since reno can not be built as a module, and can not be 65 + available one. Since reno cannot be built as a module, and cannot be 66 66 deleted, it will always be available. 67 67 68 68 How the new TCP output machine [nyi] works.
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Documentation/pm.txt
··· 18 18 ACPI driver will override and disable APM, otherwise the APM driver 19 19 will be used. 20 20 21 - No sorry, you can not have both ACPI and APM enabled and running at 21 + No, sorry, you cannot have both ACPI and APM enabled and running at 22 22 once. Some people with broken ACPI or broken APM implementations 23 23 would like to use both to get a full set of working features, but you 24 - simply can not mix and match the two. Only one power management 24 + simply cannot mix and match the two. Only one power management 25 25 interface can be in control of the machine at once. Think about it.. 26 26 27 27 User-space Daemons ··· 106 106 * 107 107 * Returns: 0 if the request is successful 108 108 * EINVAL if the request is not supported 109 - * EBUSY if the device is now busy and can not handle the request 109 + * EBUSY if the device is now busy and cannot handle the request 110 110 * ENOMEM if the device was unable to handle the request due to memory 111 111 * 112 112 * Details: The device request callback will be called before the
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Documentation/pnp.txt
··· 222 222 .remove = serial_pnp_remove, 223 223 }; 224 224 225 - * name and id_table can not be NULL. 225 + * name and id_table cannot be NULL. 226 226 227 227 4.) register the driver 228 228 ex:
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Documentation/s390/cds.txt
··· 143 143 of those devices is uniquely defined by a so called subchannel by the ESA/390 144 144 channel subsystem. While the subchannel numbers are system generated, each 145 145 subchannel also takes a user defined attribute, the so called device number. 146 - Both subchannel number and device number can not exceed 65535. During driverfs 146 + Both subchannel number and device number cannot exceed 65535. During driverfs 147 147 initialisation, the information about control unit type and device types that 148 148 imply specific I/O commands (channel command words - CCWs) in order to operate 149 149 the device are gathered. Device drivers can retrieve this set of hardware
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Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt
··· 102 102 The hardware RAID devices sold by Adaptec are *NOT* supported by this 103 103 driver (and will people please stop emailing me about them, they are 104 104 a totally separate beast from the bare SCSI controllers and this driver 105 - can not be retrofitted in any sane manner to support the hardware RAID 105 + cannot be retrofitted in any sane manner to support the hardware RAID 106 106 features on those cards - Doug Ledford). 107 107 108 108
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Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
··· 4 4 "-stable" tree: 5 5 6 6 - It must be obviously correct and tested. 7 - - It can not be bigger than 100 lines, with context. 7 + - It cannot be bigger than 100 lines, with context. 8 8 - It must fix only one thing. 9 9 - It must fix a real bug that bothers people (not a, "This could be a 10 10 problem..." type thing). ··· 14 14 critical. 15 15 - No "theoretical race condition" issues, unless an explanation of how the 16 16 race can be exploited is also provided. 17 - - It can not contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes, 17 + - It cannot contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes, 18 18 whitespace cleanups, etc). 19 19 - It must be accepted by the relevant subsystem maintainer. 20 20 - It must follow the Documentation/SubmittingPatches rules.
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Documentation/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt
··· 3972 3972 nneett 3973 3973 3974 3974 If you can connect to the host, and the host can connect to UML, but 3975 - you can not connect to any other machines, then you may need to enable 3975 + you cannot connect to any other machines, then you may need to enable 3976 3976 IP Masquerading on the host. Usually this is only experienced when 3977 3977 using private IP addresses (192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x) for host/UML 3978 3978 networking, rather than the public address space that your host is
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Documentation/video4linux/et61x251.txt
··· 222 222 [root@localhost #] echo 1 > i2c_reg 223 223 [root@localhost #] cat i2c_val 224 224 225 - Note that if the sensor registers can not be read, "cat" will fail. 225 + Note that if the sensor registers cannot be read, "cat" will fail. 226 226 To avoid race conditions, all the I/O accesses to the files are serialized. 227 227 228 228
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Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
··· 258 258 Timeout default varies according to frequency, supports 259 259 SETTIMEOUT 260 260 261 - Watchdog can not be turned off, CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT 261 + Watchdog cannot be turned off, CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT 262 262 does not make sense 263 263 264 264 GETSUPPORT returns the watchdog_info struct, and 265 265 GETSTATUS returns the supported options. GETBOOTSTATUS 266 266 returns a 1 if the last reset was caused by the 267 - watchdog and a 0 otherwise. This watchdog can not be 267 + watchdog and a 0 otherwise. This watchdog cannot be 268 268 disabled once it has been started. The wdt_period kernel 269 269 parameter selects which bit of the time base changing 270 270 from 0->1 will trigger the watchdog exception. Changing
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arch/arm/Kconfig
··· 629 629 depends on CPU_CP15_MMU 630 630 default y if !ARCH_EBSA110 631 631 help 632 - ARM processors can not fetch/store information which is not 632 + ARM processors cannot fetch/store information which is not 633 633 naturally aligned on the bus, i.e., a 4 byte fetch must start at an 634 634 address divisible by 4. On 32-bit ARM processors, these non-aligned 635 635 fetch/store instructions will be emulated in software if you say
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drivers/scsi/Kconfig
··· 85 85 tristate "SCSI OnStream SC-x0 tape support" 86 86 depends on SCSI 87 87 ---help--- 88 - The OnStream SC-x0 SCSI tape drives can not be driven by the 88 + The OnStream SC-x0 SCSI tape drives cannot be driven by the 89 89 standard st driver, but instead need this special osst driver and 90 90 use the /dev/osstX char device nodes (major 206). Via usb-storage 91 91 and ide-scsi, you may be able to drive the USB-x0 and DI-x0 drives
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mm/Kconfig
··· 92 92 93 93 # 94 94 # SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem 95 - # allocations when memory_present() is called. If this can not 95 + # allocations when memory_present() is called. If this cannot 96 96 # be done on your architecture, select this option. However, 97 97 # statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially 98 98 # consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful.