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From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Robert Richter <rrichter@marvell.com>
Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Fix some typo errors in ras.rst
Date: Tue,  5 May 2020 11:10:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200505151049.11134-1-longman@redhat.com> (raw)

Fix typo errors.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst
index 0310db624964..8b1803b2606f 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst
@@ -156,10 +156,10 @@ the labels provided by the BIOS won't match the real ones.
 ECC memory
 ----------
 
-As mentioned on the previous section, ECC memory has extra bits to be
-used for error correction. So, on 64 bit systems, a memory module
-has 64 bits of *data width*, and 74 bits of *total width*. So, there are
-8 bits extra bits to be used for the error detection and correction
+As mentioned on the previous section, ECC memory has extra bits to
+be used for error correction. So, on 64 bit systems, a memory module
+has 64 bits of *data width*, and 72 bits of *total width*. So, there
+are 8 extra bits to be used for the error detection and correction
 mechanisms. Those extra bits are called *syndrome*\ [#f1]_\ [#f2]_.
 
 So, when the cpu requests the memory controller to write a word with
-- 
2.18.1


             reply	other threads:[~2020-05-05 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-05 15:10 Waiman Long [this message]
2020-05-05 15:32 ` [PATCH] doc: Fix some typo errors in ras.rst Jonathan Corbet
2020-05-05 15:50   ` Waiman Long
2020-05-05 15:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-05-05 16:03   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-06 16:21     ` Waiman Long
2020-05-06 16:19   ` Waiman Long

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