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Documentation: acpi: Fix typos

Fix typos in acpi directory to make documentation grammatically correct.

Signed-off-by: Tamara Diaconita <diaconita.tamara@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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Documentation/acpi/aml-debugger.txt
··· 15 15 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUGGER=y 16 16 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUGGER_USER=m 17 17 18 - The userspace utlities can be built from the kernel source tree using 18 + The userspace utilities can be built from the kernel source tree using 19 19 the following commands: 20 20 21 21 $ cd tools
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Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt
··· 367 367 368 368 Device Tree namespace link device ID 369 369 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 370 - The Device Tree protocol uses device indentification based on the "compatible" 370 + The Device Tree protocol uses device identification based on the "compatible" 371 371 property whose value is a string or an array of strings recognized as device 372 372 identifiers by drivers and the driver core. The set of all those strings may be 373 - regarded as a device indentification namespace analogous to the ACPI/PNP device 373 + regarded as a device identification namespace analogous to the ACPI/PNP device 374 374 ID namespace. Consequently, in principle it should not be necessary to allocate 375 375 a new (and arguably redundant) ACPI/PNP device ID for a devices with an existing 376 376 identification string in the Device Tree (DT) namespace, especially if that ID ··· 381 381 list the IDs of devices the given one is compatible with, but those IDs must 382 382 belong to one of the namespaces prescribed by the ACPI specification (see 383 383 Section 6.1.2 of ACPI 6.0 for details) and the DT namespace is not one of them. 384 - Moreover, the specification mandates that either a _HID or an _ADR identificaion 384 + Moreover, the specification mandates that either a _HID or an _ADR identification 385 385 object be present for all ACPI objects representing devices (Section 6.1 of ACPI 386 386 6.0). For non-enumerable bus types that object must be _HID and its value must 387 387 be a device ID from one of the namespaces prescribed by the specification too.
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Documentation/acpi/linuxized-acpica.txt
··· 110 110 Linux patches. The patches generated by this process are referred to as 111 111 "linuxized ACPICA patches". The release process is carried out on a local 112 112 copy the ACPICA git repository. Each commit in the monthly release is 113 - converted into a linuxized ACPICA patch. Together, they form the montly 113 + converted into a linuxized ACPICA patch. Together, they form the monthly 114 114 ACPICA release patchset for the Linux ACPI community. This process is 115 115 illustrated in the following figure: 116 116 ··· 195 195 release utilities (please refer to Section 4 below for the details). 196 196 3. Linux specific features - Sometimes it's impossible to use the 197 197 current ACPICA APIs to implement features required by the Linux kernel, 198 - so Linux developers occasionaly have to change ACPICA code directly. 198 + so Linux developers occasionally have to change ACPICA code directly. 199 199 Those changes may not be acceptable by ACPICA upstream and in such cases 200 200 they are left as committed ACPICA divergences unless the ACPICA side can 201 201 implement new mechanisms as replacements for them. 202 202 4. ACPICA release fixups - ACPICA only tests commits using a set of the 203 - user space simulation utilies, thus the linuxized ACPICA patches may 203 + user space simulation utilities, thus the linuxized ACPICA patches may 204 204 break the Linux kernel, leaving us build/boot failures. In order to 205 205 avoid breaking Linux bisection, fixes are applied directly to the 206 206 linuxized ACPICA patches during the release process. When the release