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From devnull@lkml.org Sat Apr 27 01:08:37 2024 Delivery-date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:22:06 +0000 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751242AbWGZXVT (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:21:19 -0400 Received: from cpe-74-70-38-78.nycap.res.rr.com ([74.70.38.78]:11530 "EHLO mail.cyberdogtech.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751237AbWGZXVS convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:21:18 -0400 Received: from unknown by cyberdogtech.com (MDaemon PRO v9.0.5) with ESMTP id md50000045418.msg for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:20:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:20:29 -0400 From: Matt LaPlante To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: trivial@kernel.org, "Randy.Dunlap" Subject: [PATCH 18-rc2] Fix "can not" in Documentation and Kconfig Message-Id: <20060726192029.173c89b6.kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.6 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i686-pc-mingw32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Spam-Processed: mail.cyberdogtech.com, Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:20:33 -0400 (not processed: message from valid local sender) X-Return-Path: kernel1@cyberdogtech.com X-Envelope-From: kernel1@cyberdogtech.com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-MDAV-Processed: mail.cyberdogtech.com, Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:20:34 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Randy brought it to my attention that in proper english "can not" should always be written "cannot". I donot see any reason to argue, even if I mightnot understand why this rule exists. This patch fixes "can not" in several Documentation files as well as three Kconfigs. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante -- diff -ru a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig 2006-07-16 22:07:04.000000000 -0400 +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig 2006-07-26 19:14:22.000000000 -0400 @@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ bool default y if !ARCH_EBSA110 help - ARM processors can not fetch/store information which is not + ARM processors cannot fetch/store information which is not naturally aligned on the bus, i.e., a 4 byte fetch must start at an address divisible by 4. On 32-bit ARM processors, these non-aligned fetch/store instructions will be emulated in software if you say diff -ru a/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt b/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt --- a/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt 2006-07-16 22:07:04.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt 2006-07-26 18:54:52.000000000 -0400 @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ device supports. It returns zero if your card can perform DMA properly on the machine given the address mask you provided. -If it returns non-zero, your device can not perform DMA properly on +If it returns non-zero, your device cannot perform DMA properly on this platform, and attempting to do so will result in undefined behavior. You must either use a different mask, or not use DMA. diff -ru a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt 2006-07-26 19:09:52.000000000 -0400 @@ -1727,7 +1727,7 @@ These parameters are used to limit how many ICMP destination unreachable to send from the host in question. ICMP destination unreachable messages are -sent when we can not reach the next hop, while trying to transmit a packet. +sent when we cannot reach the next hop while trying to transmit a packet. It will also print some error messages to kernel logs if someone is ignoring our ICMP redirects. The higher the error_cost factor is, the fewer destination unreachable and error messages will be let through. Error_burst diff -ru a/Documentation/highuid.txt b/Documentation/highuid.txt --- a/Documentation/highuid.txt 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/highuid.txt 2006-07-26 18:52:30.000000000 -0400 @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Other filesystems have not been checked yet. -- The ncpfs and smpfs filesystems can not presently use 32-bit UIDs in +- The ncpfs and smpfs filesystems cannot presently use 32-bit UIDs in all ioctl()s. Some new ioctl()s have been added with 32-bit UIDs, but more are needed. (as well as new user<->kernel data structures) diff -ru a/Documentation/input/ff.txt b/Documentation/input/ff.txt --- a/Documentation/input/ff.txt 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/input/ff.txt 2006-07-26 18:58:30.000000000 -0400 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ effects. At the moment, only I-Force devices are supported, and not officially. That means I had to find out how the protocol works on my own. Of course, the -information I managed to grasp is far from being complete, and I can not +information I managed to grasp is far from being complete, and I cannot guarranty that this driver will work for you. This document only describes the force feedback part of the driver for I-Force devices. Please read joystick.txt before reading further this document. diff -ru a/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt b/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt --- a/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt 2006-07-26 19:04:18.000000000 -0400 @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ Source code comments read: - This is tightly woven into the driver->do_special can not + This is tightly woven into the driver->do_special cannot touch. DON'T do it again until a total personality rewrite is committed. diff -ru a/Documentation/java.txt b/Documentation/java.txt --- a/Documentation/java.txt 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/java.txt 2006-07-26 18:50:44.000000000 -0400 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ the kernel (CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC) and set it up properly. If you choose to compile it as a module, you will have to insert it manually with modprobe/insmod, as kmod - can not easily be supported with binfmt_misc. + cannot easily be supported with binfmt_misc. Read the file 'binfmt_misc.txt' in this directory to know more about the configuration process. diff -ru a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2006-07-16 22:07:04.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2006-07-26 19:02:24.000000000 -0400 @@ -608,8 +608,8 @@ noirqbalance [IA-32,SMP,KNL] Disable kernel irq balancing i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode - i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controlled can only read data from - keyboard and can not control its state + i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from + keyboard and cannot control its state (Don't attempt to blink the leds) i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port diff -ru a/Documentation/mono.txt b/Documentation/mono.txt --- a/Documentation/mono.txt 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/mono.txt 2006-07-26 18:55:09.000000000 -0400 @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ the kernel (CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC) and set it up properly. If you choose to compile it as a module, you will have to insert it manually with modprobe/insmod, as kmod - can not be easily supported with binfmt_misc. + cannot be easily supported with binfmt_misc. Read the file 'binfmt_misc.txt' in this directory to know more about the configuration process. diff -ru a/Documentation/networking/arcnet-hardware.txt b/Documentation/networking/arcnet-hardware.txt --- a/Documentation/networking/arcnet-hardware.txt 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/networking/arcnet-hardware.txt 2006-07-26 18:54:28.000000000 -0400 @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ 5. An active hub to passive hub. -Remember, that you can not connect two passive hubs together. The power loss +Remember that you cannot connect two passive hubs together. The power loss implied by such a connection is too high for the net to operate reliably. An example of a typical ARCnet network: diff -ru a/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt b/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt --- a/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt 2006-07-26 18:56:05.000000000 -0400 @@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ 1.) The system does not boot properly (or at all). - 2.) The driver can not communicate with the adapter, reporting an "Adapter + 2.) The driver cannot communicate with the adapter, reporting an "Adapter not found" error message. 3.) You cannot connect to the network or the driver will not load. diff -ru a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt --- a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt 2006-07-26 19:10:36.000000000 -0400 @@ -52,6 +52,6 @@ Netconsole was designed to be as instantaneous as possible, to enable the logging of even the most critical kernel bugs. It works from IRQ contexts as well, and does not enable interrupts while -sending packets. Due to these unique needs, configuration can not +sending packets. Due to these unique needs, configuration cannot be more automatic, and some fundamental limitations will remain: only IP networks, UDP packets and ethernet devices are supported. diff -ru a/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt b/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt --- a/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt 2006-07-26 19:01:16.000000000 -0400 @@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ following list: -Problem: The SK-98xx adapter can not be found by the driver. +Problem: The SK-98xx adapter cannot be found by the driver. Solution: In /proc/pci search for the following entry: 'Ethernet controller: SysKonnect SK-98xx ...' If this entry exists, the SK-98xx or SK-98xx V2.0 adapter has @@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ web, e.g. at 'www.linux.org'). -Problem: Programs such as 'ifconfig' or 'route' can not be found or the +Problem: Programs such as 'ifconfig' or 'route' cannot be found or the error message 'Operation not permitted' is displayed. Reason: You are not logged in as user 'root'. Solution: Logout and login as 'root' or change to 'root' via 'su'. diff -ru a/Documentation/networking/skfp.txt b/Documentation/networking/skfp.txt --- a/Documentation/networking/skfp.txt 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/networking/skfp.txt 2006-07-26 18:57:51.000000000 -0400 @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ If you run into problems during installation, check those items: -Problem: The FDDI adapter can not be found by the driver. +Problem: The FDDI adapter cannot be found by the driver. Reason: Look in /proc/pci for the following entry: 'FDDI network controller: SysKonnect SK-FDDI-PCI ...' If this entry exists, then the FDDI adapter has been @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ Problem: You want to use your computer as a router between multiple IP subnetworks (using multiple adapters), but - you can not reach computers in other subnetworks. + you cannot reach computers in other subnetworks. Reason: Either the router's kernel is not configured for IP forwarding or there is a problem with the routing table and gateway configuration in at least one of the diff -ru a/Documentation/networking/tcp.txt b/Documentation/networking/tcp.txt --- a/Documentation/networking/tcp.txt 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/networking/tcp.txt 2006-07-26 18:57:05.000000000 -0400 @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ unknown congestion method, then the sysctl attempt will fail. If you remove a tcp congestion control module, then you will get the next -available one. Since reno can not be built as a module, and can not be +available one. Since reno cannot be built as a module, and cannot be deleted, it will always be available. How the new TCP output machine [nyi] works. diff -ru a/Documentation/pm.txt b/Documentation/pm.txt --- a/Documentation/pm.txt 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/pm.txt 2006-07-26 19:00:17.000000000 -0400 @@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ ACPI driver will override and disable APM, otherwise the APM driver will be used. -No sorry, you can not have both ACPI and APM enabled and running at +No, sorry, you cannot have both ACPI and APM enabled and running at once. Some people with broken ACPI or broken APM implementations would like to use both to get a full set of working features, but you -simply can not mix and match the two. Only one power management +simply cannot mix and match the two. Only one power management interface can be in control of the machine at once. Think about it.. User-space Daemons @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ * * Returns: 0 if the request is successful * EINVAL if the request is not supported - * EBUSY if the device is now busy and can not handle the request + * EBUSY if the device is now busy and cannot handle the request * ENOMEM if the device was unable to handle the request due to memory * * Details: The device request callback will be called before the diff -ru a/Documentation/pnp.txt b/Documentation/pnp.txt --- a/Documentation/pnp.txt 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/pnp.txt 2006-07-26 18:52:06.000000000 -0400 @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ .remove = serial_pnp_remove, }; -* name and id_table can not be NULL. +* name and id_table cannot be NULL. 4.) register the driver ex: diff -ru a/Documentation/power/devices.txt b/Documentation/power/devices.txt --- a/Documentation/power/devices.txt 2006-07-16 22:07:04.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/power/devices.txt 2006-07-26 18:55:35.000000000 -0400 @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ Transitions are only from a resumed state to a suspended state, never between 2 suspended states. (ON -> FREEZE or ON -> SUSPEND can happen, -FREEZE -> SUSPEND or SUSPEND -> FREEZE can not). +FREEZE -> SUSPEND or SUSPEND -> FREEZE cannot). All events are: diff -ru a/Documentation/s390/cds.txt b/Documentation/s390/cds.txt --- a/Documentation/s390/cds.txt 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/s390/cds.txt 2006-07-26 19:12:16.000000000 -0400 @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ of those devices is uniquely defined by a so called subchannel by the ESA/390 channel subsystem. While the subchannel numbers are system generated, each subchannel also takes a user defined attribute, the so called device number. -Both subchannel number and device number can not exceed 65535. During driverfs +Both subchannel number and device number cannot exceed 65535. During driverfs initialisation, the information about control unit type and device types that imply specific I/O commands (channel command words - CCWs) in order to operate the device are gathered. Device drivers can retrieve this set of hardware diff -ru a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt --- a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt 2006-07-26 19:03:31.000000000 -0400 @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ The hardware RAID devices sold by Adaptec are *NOT* supported by this driver (and will people please stop emailing me about them, they are a totally separate beast from the bare SCSI controllers and this driver - can not be retrofitted in any sane manner to support the hardware RAID + cannot be retrofitted in any sane manner to support the hardware RAID features on those cards - Doug Ledford). diff -ru a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt --- a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt 2006-07-26 18:51:54.000000000 -0400 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ "-stable" tree: - It must be obviously correct and tested. - - It can not be bigger than 100 lines, with context. + - It cannot be bigger than 100 lines, with context. - It must fix only one thing. - It must fix a real bug that bothers people (not a, "This could be a problem..." type thing). @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ critical. - No "theoretical race condition" issues, unless an explanation of how the race can be exploited is also provided. - - It can not contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes, + - It cannot contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes, whitespace cleanups, etc). - It must be accepted by the relevant subsystem maintainer. - It must follow the Documentation/SubmittingPatches rules. diff -ru a/Documentation/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt --- a/Documentation/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt 2006-07-26 18:49:01.000000000 -0400 @@ -4022,7 +4022,7 @@ nneett If you can connect to the host, and the host can connect to UML, but - you can not connect to any other machines, then you may need to enable + you cannot connect to any other machines, then you may need to enable IP Masquerading on the host. Usually this is only experienced when using private IP addresses (192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x) for host/UML networking, rather than the public address space that your host is diff -ru a/Documentation/video4linux/et61x251.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/et61x251.txt --- a/Documentation/video4linux/et61x251.txt 2006-07-16 22:07:04.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/et61x251.txt 2006-07-26 18:53:32.000000000 -0400 @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ [root@localhost #] echo 1 > i2c_reg [root@localhost #] cat i2c_val -Note that if the sensor registers can not be read, "cat" will fail. +Note that if the sensor registers cannot be read, "cat" will fail. To avoid race conditions, all the I/O accesses to the files are serialized. diff -ru a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt --- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt 2006-07-16 22:07:04.000000000 -0400 +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt 2006-07-26 18:59:14.000000000 -0400 @@ -258,13 +258,13 @@ Timeout default varies according to frequency, supports SETTIMEOUT - Watchdog can not be turned off, CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT + Watchdog cannot be turned off, CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT does not make sense GETSUPPORT returns the watchdog_info struct, and GETSTATUS returns the supported options. GETBOOTSTATUS returns a 1 if the last reset was caused by the - watchdog and a 0 otherwise. This watchdog can not be + watchdog and a 0 otherwise. This watchdog cannot be disabled once it has been started. The wdt_period kernel parameter selects which bit of the time base changing from 0->1 will trigger the watchdog exception. Changing diff -ru a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig --- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig 2006-07-16 22:07:20.000000000 -0400 +++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig 2006-07-26 19:15:43.000000000 -0400 @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ tristate "SCSI OnStream SC-x0 tape support" depends on SCSI ---help--- - The OnStream SC-x0 SCSI tape drives can not be driven by the + The OnStream SC-x0 SCSI tape drives cannot be driven by the standard st driver, but instead need this special osst driver and use the /dev/osstX char device nodes (major 206). Via usb-storage and ide-scsi, you may be able to drive the USB-x0 and DI-x0 drives diff -ru a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig --- a/mm/Kconfig 2006-07-16 22:07:41.000000000 -0400 +++ b/mm/Kconfig 2006-07-26 19:15:01.000000000 -0400 @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ # # SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem -# allocations when memory_present() is called. If this can not +# allocations when memory_present() is called. 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