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Subject[PATCH] Syntactic and factual errors in the API document
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There are several places where the English in the document is syntactically
invalid, or unclear. There are also one or two factual errors.

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Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt | 44 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
index 8c745c8..5bc73ef 100644
--- a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ temperature) and throttle appropriate devices.
1.1.2 void thermal_zone_device_unregister(struct thermal_zone_device *tz)

This interface function removes the thermal zone device.
- It deletes the corresponding entry form /sys/class/thermal folder and
- unbind all the thermal cooling devices it uses.
+ It deletes the corresponding entry from /sys/class/thermal folder and
+ unbinds all the thermal cooling devices it uses.

1.2 thermal cooling device interface
1.2.1 struct thermal_cooling_device *thermal_cooling_device_register(char *name,
@@ -78,32 +78,32 @@ temperature) and throttle appropriate devices.

This interface function adds a new thermal cooling device (fan/processor/...)
to /sys/class/thermal/ folder as cooling_device[0-*]. It tries to bind itself
- to all the thermal zone devices register at the same time.
+ to all the thermal zone devices registered at the same time.
name: the cooling device name.
devdata: device private data.
ops: thermal cooling devices call-backs.
.get_max_state: get the Maximum throttle state of the cooling device.
- .get_cur_state: get the Current throttle state of the cooling device.
+ .get_cur_state: get the Currently requested throttle state of the cooling device.
.set_cur_state: set the Current throttle state of the cooling device.

1.2.2 void thermal_cooling_device_unregister(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)

- This interface function remove the thermal cooling device.
- It deletes the corresponding entry form /sys/class/thermal folder and
- unbind itself from all the thermal zone devices using it.
+ This interface function removes the thermal cooling device.
+ It deletes the corresponding entry from /sys/class/thermal folder and
+ unbinds itself from all the thermal zone devices using it.

1.3 interface for binding a thermal zone device with a thermal cooling device
1.3.1 int thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
int trip, struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev,
unsigned long upper, unsigned long lower, unsigned int weight);

- This interface function bind a thermal cooling device to the certain trip
+ This interface function binds a thermal cooling device to a particular trip
point of a thermal zone device.
This function is usually called in the thermal zone device .bind callback.
tz: the thermal zone device
cdev: thermal cooling device
- trip: indicates which trip point the cooling devices is associated with
- in this thermal zone.
+ trip: indicates which trip point in this thermal zone the cooling device
+ is associated with.
upper:the Maximum cooling state for this trip point.
THERMAL_NO_LIMIT means no upper limit,
and the cooling device can be in max_state.
@@ -116,13 +116,13 @@ temperature) and throttle appropriate devices.
1.3.2 int thermal_zone_unbind_cooling_device(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
int trip, struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev);

- This interface function unbind a thermal cooling device from the certain
+ This interface function unbinds a thermal cooling device from a particular
trip point of a thermal zone device. This function is usually called in
the thermal zone device .unbind callback.
tz: the thermal zone device
cdev: thermal cooling device
- trip: indicates which trip point the cooling devices is associated with
- in this thermal zone.
+ trip: indicates which trip point in this thermal zone the cooling device
+ is associated with.

1.4 Thermal Zone Parameters
1.4.1 struct thermal_bind_params
@@ -142,13 +142,13 @@ temperature) and throttle appropriate devices.
this thermal zone and cdev, for a particular trip point.
If nth bit is set, then the cdev and thermal zone are bound
for trip point n.
- .limits: This is an array of cooling state limits. Must have exactly
- 2 * thermal_zone.number_of_trip_points. It is an array consisting
- of tuples <lower-state upper-state> of state limits. Each trip
- will be associated with one state limit tuple when binding.
- A NULL pointer means <THERMAL_NO_LIMITS THERMAL_NO_LIMITS>
- on all trips. These limits are used when binding a cdev to a
- trip point.
+ .binding_limits: This is an array of cooling state limits. Must have
+ exactly 2 * thermal_zone.number_of_trip_points. It is an
+ array consisting of tuples <lower-state upper-state> of
+ state limits. Each trip will be associated with one state
+ limit tuple when binding. A NULL pointer means
+ <THERMAL_NO_LIMITS THERMAL_NO_LIMITS> on all trips.
+ These limits are used when binding a cdev to a trip point.
.match: This call back returns success(0) if the 'tz and cdev' need to
be bound, as per platform data.
1.4.2 struct thermal_zone_params
@@ -283,8 +283,8 @@ cdev[0-*]
RO, Optional

cdev[0-*]_trip_point
- The trip point with which cdev[0-*] is associated in this thermal
- zone; -1 means the cooling device is not associated with any trip
+ The trip point in this thermal zone which cdev[0-*] is associated
+ with; -1 means the cooling device is not associated with any trip
point.
RO, Optional

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1.9.1
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