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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] Documentation: USB: correct possessive "its" usage
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 15:14:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221118231422.14076-1-rdunlap@infradead.org> (raw)

Correct uses of "it's" to possessive "its" or "its" to "it's" as needed.
Correct associated grammar in one location.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
---
v2: use "his" instead of "its" in CREDITS (Alan)
    Also correct one use of "its" to "it's".

 Documentation/usb/CREDITS          |    6 +++---
 Documentation/usb/functionfs.rst   |    2 +-
 Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.rst |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff -- a/Documentation/usb/CREDITS b/Documentation/usb/CREDITS
--- a/Documentation/usb/CREDITS
+++ b/Documentation/usb/CREDITS
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Credits for the Simple Linux USB Driver:
 
 The following people have contributed to this code (in alphabetical
-order by last name).  I'm sure this list should be longer, its
+order by last name).  I'm sure this list should be longer, it's
 difficult to maintain, add yourself with a patch if desired.
 
   Georg Acher <acher@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ THANKS file in Inaky's driver):
         - Jochen Karrer <karrer@wpfd25.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, for
           pointing out mortal bugs and giving advice.
 
-        - Edmund Humemberger <ed@atnet.at>, for it's great work on
+        - Edmund Humemberger <ed@atnet.at>, for his great work on
           public relationships and general management stuff for the
           Linux-USB effort.
 
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ THANKS file in Inaky's driver):
         - Ric Klaren <ia_ric@cs.utwente.nl> for doing nice
           introductory documents (competing with Alberto's :).
 
-        - Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>, for it's help on those
+        - Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>, for his help on those
           itchy bits ... :)
 
         - Paul MacKerras for polishing OHCI and pushing me harder for
diff -- a/Documentation/usb/functionfs.rst b/Documentation/usb/functionfs.rst
--- a/Documentation/usb/functionfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/usb/functionfs.rst
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ level it would look like this::
   $ ( cd /dev/ffs-hid && hid-daemon ) &
 
 On kernel level the gadget checks ffs_data->dev_name to identify
-whether it's FunctionFS designed for MTP ("mtp") or HID ("hid").
+whether its FunctionFS is designed for MTP ("mtp") or HID ("hid").
 
 If no "functions" module parameters is supplied, the driver accepts
 just one function with any name.
diff -- a/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.rst b/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.rst
--- a/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.rst
+++ b/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.rst
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ The Multifunction Composite Gadget (or g
 that makes extensive use of the composite framework to provide
 a... multifunction gadget.
 
-In it's standard configuration it provides a single USB configuration
+In its standard configuration it provides a single USB configuration
 with RNDIS[1] (that is Ethernet), USB CDC[2] ACM (that is serial) and
 USB Mass Storage functions.
 

             reply	other threads:[~2022-11-18 23:27 UTC|newest]

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2022-11-18 23:14 Randy Dunlap [this message]
2022-11-21 21:33 ` [PATCH v2] Documentation: USB: correct possessive "its" usage Jonathan Corbet

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