Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kbuild: fixed typos and wording

[Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>]

On 27.6.2010 02:37, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:00:21 +0200 Nicolas Kaiser wrote:
> 
>> Fixed some typos and wording.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>
> 
> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Randy, are you adding this to the kernel-doc tree? There are already
patches from matt mooney, sometimes touching the same paragraphs as this
one.

Michal

> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> ---
>>  Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt    |    8 ++++----
>>  Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt |   20 ++++++++++----------
>>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
>> index 634c625..0d8addb 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
>> @@ -40,15 +40,15 @@ Set the directory to look for the kernel source when building external
>>  modules.
>>  The directory can be specified in several ways:
>>  1) Use "M=..." on the command line
>> -2) Environmnet variable KBUILD_EXTMOD
>> -3) Environmnet variable SUBDIRS
>> +2) Environment variable KBUILD_EXTMOD
>> +3) Environment variable SUBDIRS
>>  The possibilities are listed in the order they take precedence.
>>  Using "M=..." will always override the others.
>>  
>>  KBUILD_OUTPUT
>>  --------------------------------------------------
>>  Specify the output directory when building the kernel.
>> -The output directory can also be specificed using "O=...".
>> +The output directory can also be specified using "O=...".
>>  Setting "O=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_OUTPUT.
>>  
>>  ARCH
>> @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ The script will be called with the following arguments:
>>      $3 - kernel map file
>>      $4 - default install path (use root directory if blank)
>>  
>> -The implmentation of "make install" is architecture specific
>> +The implementation of "make install" is architecture specific
>>  and it may differ from the above.
>>  
>>  INSTALLKERNEL is provided to enable the possibility to
>> diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
>> index 71c602d..c0c9b1c 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
>> @@ -284,12 +284,12 @@ more details, with real examples.
>>  --- 3.7 Compilation flags
>>  
>>      ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y
>> -	The three flags listed above applies only to the kbuild makefile
>> -	where they are assigned. They are used for all the normal
>> -	cc, as and ld invocation happenign during a recursive build.
>> +	These three flags apply only to the kbuild makefile in which they
>> +	are assigned. They are used for all the normal cc, as and ld
>> +	invocations happening during a recursive build.
>>  	Note: Flags with the same behaviour were previously named:
>>  	EXTRA_CFLAGS, EXTRA_AFLAGS and EXTRA_LDFLAGS.
>> -	They are yet supported but their use are deprecated.
>> +	They are still supported but their usage is deprecated.
>>  
>>  	ccflags-y specifies options for compiling C files with $(CC).
>>  
>> @@ -318,9 +318,9 @@ more details, with real examples.
>>  		ldflags-y := -x
>>  
>>      subdir-ccflags-y, subdir-asflags-y
>> -	The two flags listed above are similar to ccflags-y and as-falgs-y.
>> -	The difference is that the subdir- variants has effect for the kbuild
>> -	file where tey are present and all subdirectories.
>> +	The two flags listed above are similar to ccflags-y and as-flags-y.
>> +	The difference is that the subdir- variants have effect for the kbuild
>> +	file where they are present and all subdirectories.
>>  	Options specified using subdir-* are added to the commandline before
>>  	the options specified using the non-subdir variants.
>>  
>> @@ -1176,14 +1176,14 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
>>  === 7 Kbuild syntax for exported headers
>>  
>>  The kernel include a set of headers that is exported to userspace.
>> -Many headers can be exported as-is but other headers requires  a
>> +Many headers can be exported as-is but other headers require a
>>  minimal pre-processing before they are ready for user-space.
>>  The pre-processing does:
>>  - drop kernel specific annotations
>>  - drop include of compiler.h
>> -- drop all sections that is kernel internat (guarded by ifdef __KERNEL__)
>> +- drop all sections that are kernel internal (guarded by ifdef __KERNEL__)
>>  
>> -Each relevant directory contain a file name "Kbuild" which specify the
>> +Each relevant directory contains a file name "Kbuild" which specifies the
>>  headers to be exported.
>>  See subsequent chapter for the syntax of the Kbuild file.
>>  
>> -- 
> 
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