[PATCH 04/44] firmware: Fix grammar in sysfs-firmware-dmi doc

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-05-20T00:11:16Z

From: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>

Fix the grammar in describing the position attribute of DMI entries in
the dmi-sysfs module. While here, make a couple other small clarifying
fixups to the docs.

Reported-by: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi | 18 +++++++++---------
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi
index ba9da95..c78f9ab 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi
@@ -14,14 +14,15 @@ Description:

DMI is structured as a large table of entries, where
each entry has a common header indicating the type and
- length of the entry, as well as 'handle' that is
- supposed to be unique amongst all entries.
+ length of the entry, as well as a firmware-provided
+ 'handle' that is supposed to be unique amongst all
+ entries.

Some entries are required by the specification, but many
others are optional. In general though, users should
never expect to find a specific entry type on their
system unless they know for certain what their firmware
- is doing. Machine to machine will vary.
+ is doing. Machine to machine experiences will vary.

Multiple entries of the same type are allowed. In order
to handle these duplicate entry types, each entry is
@@ -67,25 +68,24 @@ Description:
and the two terminating nul characters.
type : The type of the entry. This value is the same
as found in the directory name. It indicates
- how the rest of the entry should be
- interpreted.
+ how the rest of the entry should be interpreted.
instance: The instance ordinal of the entry for the
given type. This value is the same as found
in the parent directory name.
- position: The position of the entry within the entirety
- of the entirety.
+ position: The ordinal position (zero-based) of the entry
+ within the entirety of the DMI entry table.

=== Entry Specialization ===

Some entry types may have other information available in
- sysfs.
+ sysfs. Not all types are specialized.

--- Type 15 - System Event Log ---

This entry allows the firmware to export a log of
events the system has taken. This information is
typically backed by nvram, but the implementation
- details are abstracted by this table. This entries data
+ details are abstracted by this table. This entry's data
is exported in the directory:

/sys/firmware/dmi/entries/15-0/system_event_log
--
1.7.4.2