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Signed-off-by: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru@scilab.org>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-kone
··· 40 40 Date: March 2010 41 41 Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> 42 42 Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the 43 - press of a button. A profile holds informations like button 43 + press of a button. A profile holds information like button 44 44 mappings, sensitivity, the colors of the 5 leds and light 45 45 effects. 46 46 When read, these files return the respective profile. The
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Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-koneplus
··· 33 33 Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> 34 34 Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the 35 35 press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons. 36 - profile_buttons holds informations about button layout. 36 + profile_buttons holds information about button layout. 37 37 When written, this file lets one write the respective profile 38 38 buttons back to the mouse. The data has to be 77 bytes long. 39 39 The mouse will reject invalid data. ··· 47 47 Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> 48 48 Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the 49 49 press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons. 50 - profile_buttons holds informations about button layout. 50 + profile_buttons holds information about button layout. 51 51 When read, these files return the respective profile buttons. 52 52 The returned data is 77 bytes in size. 53 53 This file is readonly. ··· 58 58 Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> 59 59 Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the 60 60 press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons. 61 - profile_settings holds informations like resolution, sensitivity 61 + profile_settings holds information like resolution, sensitivity 62 62 and light effects. 63 63 When written, this file lets one write the respective profile 64 64 settings back to the mouse. The data has to be 43 bytes long. ··· 73 73 Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> 74 74 Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the 75 75 press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons. 76 - profile_settings holds informations like resolution, sensitivity 76 + profile_settings holds information like resolution, sensitivity 77 77 and light effects. 78 78 When read, these files return the respective profile settings. 79 79 The returned data is 43 bytes in size.
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Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-kovaplus
··· 52 52 Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> 53 53 Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the 54 54 press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons. 55 - profile_buttons holds informations about button layout. 55 + profile_buttons holds information about button layout. 56 56 When written, this file lets one write the respective profile 57 57 buttons back to the mouse. The data has to be 23 bytes long. 58 58 The mouse will reject invalid data. ··· 66 66 Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> 67 67 Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the 68 68 press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons. 69 - profile_buttons holds informations about button layout. 69 + profile_buttons holds information about button layout. 70 70 When read, these files return the respective profile buttons. 71 71 The returned data is 23 bytes in size. 72 72 This file is readonly. ··· 77 77 Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> 78 78 Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the 79 79 press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons. 80 - profile_settings holds informations like resolution, sensitivity 80 + profile_settings holds information like resolution, sensitivity 81 81 and light effects. 82 82 When written, this file lets one write the respective profile 83 83 settings back to the mouse. The data has to be 16 bytes long. ··· 92 92 Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> 93 93 Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the 94 94 press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons. 95 - profile_settings holds informations like resolution, sensitivity 95 + profile_settings holds information like resolution, sensitivity 96 96 and light effects. 97 97 When read, these files return the respective profile settings. 98 98 The returned data is 16 bytes in size.
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Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-pyra
··· 39 39 Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> 40 40 Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the 41 41 press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons. 42 - profile_settings holds informations like resolution, sensitivity 42 + profile_settings holds information like resolution, sensitivity 43 43 and light effects. 44 44 When written, this file lets one write the respective profile 45 45 settings back to the mouse. The data has to be 13 bytes long. ··· 54 54 Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> 55 55 Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the 56 56 press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons. 57 - profile_settings holds informations like resolution, sensitivity 57 + profile_settings holds information like resolution, sensitivity 58 58 and light effects. 59 59 When read, these files return the respective profile settings. 60 60 The returned data is 13 bytes in size. ··· 66 66 Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> 67 67 Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the 68 68 press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons. 69 - profile_buttons holds informations about button layout. 69 + profile_buttons holds information about button layout. 70 70 When written, this file lets one write the respective profile 71 71 buttons back to the mouse. The data has to be 19 bytes long. 72 72 The mouse will reject invalid data. ··· 80 80 Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> 81 81 Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the 82 82 press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons. 83 - profile_buttons holds informations about button layout. 83 + profile_buttons holds information about button layout. 84 84 When read, these files return the respective profile buttons. 85 85 The returned data is 19 bytes in size. 86 86 This file is readonly.
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Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-asus-laptop
··· 27 27 Contact: "Corentin Chary" <corentincj@iksaif.net> 28 28 Description: 29 29 Some models like the W1N have a LED display that can be 30 - used to display several informations. 30 + used to display several items of information. 31 31 To control the LED display, use the following : 32 32 echo 0x0T000DDD > /sys/devices/platform/asus_laptop/ 33 33 where T control the 3 letters display, and DDD the 3 digits display.
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Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt
··· 138 138 section III, but, for example, the kernel does not require you to 139 139 create a node for every PCI device in the system. It is a requirement 140 140 to have a node for PCI host bridges in order to provide interrupt 141 - routing informations and memory/IO ranges, among others. It is also 141 + routing information and memory/IO ranges, among others. It is also 142 142 recommended to define nodes for on chip devices and other buses that 143 143 don't specifically fit in an existing OF specification. This creates a 144 144 great flexibility in the way the kernel can then probe those and match ··· 385 385 among others, by kexec. If you are on an SMP system, this value 386 386 should match the content of the "reg" property of the CPU node in 387 387 the device-tree corresponding to the CPU calling the kernel entry 388 - point (see further chapters for more informations on the required 388 + point (see further chapters for more information on the required 389 389 device-tree contents) 390 390 391 391 - size_dt_strings ··· 553 553 554 554 This tree is almost a minimal tree. It pretty much contains the 555 555 minimal set of required nodes and properties to boot a linux kernel; 556 - that is, some basic model informations at the root, the CPUs, and the 556 + that is, some basic model information at the root, the CPUs, and the 557 557 physical memory layout. It also includes misc information passed 558 558 through /chosen, like in this example, the platform type (mandatory) 559 559 and the kernel command line arguments (optional).
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Documentation/dvb/udev.txt
··· 1 1 The DVB subsystem currently registers to the sysfs subsystem using the 2 2 "class_simple" interface. 3 3 4 - This means that only the basic informations like module loading parameters 4 + This means that only the basic information like module loading parameters 5 5 are presented through sysfs. Other things that might be interesting are 6 6 currently *not* available. 7 7
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Documentation/edac.txt
··· 311 311 'ce_noinfo_count' 312 312 313 313 This attribute file displays the number of CEs that 314 - have occurred wherewith no informations as to which DIMM slot 314 + have occurred wherewith no information as to which DIMM slot 315 315 is having errors. Memory is handicapped, but operational, 316 316 yet no information is available to indicate which slot 317 317 the failing memory is in. This count field should be also
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Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
··· 2478 2478 topology= [S390] 2479 2479 Format: {off | on} 2480 2480 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 2481 - topology informations if the hardware supports these. 2482 - The scheduler will make use of these informations and 2481 + topology information if the hardware supports this. 2482 + The scheduler will make use of this information and 2483 2483 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 2484 2484 Default is on. 2485 2485
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Documentation/laptops/asus-laptop.txt
··· 61 61 Hotkeys are also reported as input keys (like keyboards) you can check 62 62 which key are supported using "xev" under X11. 63 63 64 - You can get informations on the version of your DSDT table by reading the 64 + You can get information on the version of your DSDT table by reading the 65 65 /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/infos entry. If you have a question or a 66 66 bug report to do, please include the output of this entry. 67 67 ··· 178 178 ----------- 179 179 180 180 Some models like the W1N have a LED display that can be used to display 181 - several informations. 181 + several items of information. 182 182 183 183 LED display works for the following models: 184 184 W1000N
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Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt
··· 72 72 # fragmentation gw_sel_class vis_mode 73 73 74 74 75 - There is a special folder for debugging informations: 75 + There is a special folder for debugging information: 76 76 77 77 # ls /sys/kernel/debug/batman_adv/bat0/ 78 78 # gateways socket transtable_global vis_data
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Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt
··· 2273 2273 There is a lot of useful info in here best found by going in & having a look around, 2274 2274 so I'll take you through some entries I consider important. 2275 2275 2276 - All the processes running on the machine have there own entry defined by 2276 + All the processes running on the machine have their own entry defined by 2277 2277 /proc/<pid> 2278 2278 So lets have a look at the init process 2279 2279 cd /proc/1
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Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt
··· 285 285 286 286 7. Profiling information 287 287 288 - This driver does not provide profiling informations as did its predecessors. 288 + This driver does not provide profiling information as did its predecessors. 289 289 This feature was not this useful and added complexity to the code. 290 290 As the driver code got more complex, I have decided to remove everything 291 291 that didn't seem actually useful.
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Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt
··· 2229 2229 2230 2230 /proc/asound/card#/pcm#[cp]/oss 2231 2231 ------------------------------- 2232 - String "erase" - erase all additional informations about OSS applications 2232 + String "erase" - erase all additional information about OSS applications 2233 2233 String "<app_name> <fragments> <fragment_size> [<options>]" 2234 2234 2235 2235 <app_name> - name of application with (higher priority) or without path
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Documentation/sound/oss/AudioExcelDSP16
··· 1 1 Driver 2 2 ------ 3 3 4 - Informations about Audio Excel DSP 16 driver can be found in the source 4 + Information about Audio Excel DSP 16 driver can be found in the source 5 5 file aedsp16.c 6 6 Please, read the head of the source before using it. It contain useful 7 - informations. 7 + information. 8 8 9 9 Configuration 10 10 ------------- ··· 68 68 This driver supports the SC-6000 and SC-6600 based Gallant's sound card. 69 69 It don't support the Audio Excel DSP 16 III (try the SC-6600 code). 70 70 I'm working on the III version of the card: if someone have useful 71 - informations about it, please let me know. 71 + information about it, please let me know. 72 72 For all the non-supported audio cards, you have to boot MS-DOS (or WIN95) 73 73 activating the audio card with the MS-DOS device driver, then you have to 74 74 <ctrl>-<alt>-<del> and boot Linux.
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Documentation/sound/oss/README.ymfsb
··· 5 5 ============ 6 6 7 7 This code references YAMAHA's sample codes and data sheets. 8 - I respect and thank for all people they made open the informations 8 + I respect and thank for all people they made open the information 9 9 about YMF7xx cards. 10 10 11 11 And this codes heavily based on Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>'s
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Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
··· 1 1 2 - Note: "modinfo <module>" prints various informations about a kernel 2 + Note: "modinfo <module>" prints various information about a kernel 3 3 module, among them a complete and up-to-date list of insmod options. 4 4 This list tends to be outdated because it is updated manually ... 5 5
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Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Sound-FAQ
··· 8 8 sound is handled in slightly different ways on each board. 9 9 10 10 To handle the grabber boards correctly, there is a array tvcards[] in 11 - bttv-cards.c, which holds the informations required for each board. 11 + bttv-cards.c, which holds the information required for each board. 12 12 Sound will work only, if the correct entry is used (for video it often 13 13 makes no difference). The bttv driver prints a line to the kernel 14 14 log, telling which card type is used. Like this one:
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Documentation/video4linux/et61x251.txt
··· 191 191 Description: Debugging information level, from 0 to 3: 192 192 0 = none (use carefully) 193 193 1 = critical errors 194 - 2 = significant informations 194 + 2 = significant information 195 195 3 = more verbose messages 196 196 Level 3 is useful for testing only, when only one device 197 - is used at the same time. It also shows some more informations 197 + is used at the same time. It also shows some more information 198 198 about the hardware being detected. This module parameter can be 199 199 changed at runtime thanks to the /sys filesystem interface. 200 200 Default: 2
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Documentation/video4linux/sn9c102.txt
··· 214 214 Description: Debugging information level, from 0 to 3: 215 215 0 = none (use carefully) 216 216 1 = critical errors 217 - 2 = significant informations 217 + 2 = significant information 218 218 3 = more verbose messages 219 219 Level 3 is useful for testing only. It also shows some more 220 - informations about the hardware being detected. 220 + information about the hardware being detected. 221 221 This parameter can be changed at runtime thanks to the /sys 222 222 filesystem interface. 223 223 Default: 2
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Documentation/video4linux/w9968cf.txt
··· 413 413 Description: Debugging information level, from 0 to 6: 414 414 0 = none (use carefully) 415 415 1 = critical errors 416 - 2 = significant informations 416 + 2 = significant information 417 417 3 = configuration or general messages 418 418 4 = warnings 419 419 5 = called functions
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Documentation/video4linux/zc0301.txt
··· 181 181 Description: Debugging information level, from 0 to 3: 182 182 0 = none (use carefully) 183 183 1 = critical errors 184 - 2 = significant informations 184 + 2 = significant information 185 185 3 = more verbose messages 186 186 Level 3 is useful for testing only, when only one device 187 - is used at the same time. It also shows some more informations 187 + is used at the same time. It also shows some information 188 188 about the hardware being detected. This module parameter can be 189 189 changed at runtime thanks to the /sys filesystem interface. 190 190 Default: 2 ··· 261 261 262 262 11. Credits 263 263 =========== 264 - - Informations about the chip internals needed to enable the I2C protocol have 264 + - Information about the chip internals needed to enable the I2C protocol have 265 265 been taken from the documentation of the ZC030x Video4Linux1 driver written 266 266 by Andrew Birkett <andy@nobugs.org>; 267 267 - The initialization values of the ZC0301 controller connected to the PAS202BCB
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arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_low_64e.S
··· 431 431 * The thing is, we know that in normal circumstances, this is 432 432 * always called as a second level tlb miss for SW load or as a first 433 433 * level TLB miss for HW load, so we should be able to peek at the 434 - * relevant informations in the first exception frame in the PACA. 434 + * relevant information in the first exception frame in the PACA. 435 435 * 436 436 * However, we do need to double check that, because we may just hit 437 437 * a stray kernel pointer or a userland attack trying to hit those
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arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig
··· 46 46 help 47 47 Support from booting from Open Firmware or yaboot using an 48 48 Open Firmware client interface. This enables the kernel to 49 - communicate with open firmware to retrieve system informations 49 + communicate with open firmware to retrieve system information 50 50 such as the device tree. 51 51 52 52 In case of doubt, say Y