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Subject[PATCH] Documentation/kbuild: fixed typos and wording
Fixed some typos and wording.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>
---
Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt | 8 ++++----
Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 20 ++++++++++----------
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
index 634c625..0d8addb 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
@@ -40,15 +40,15 @@ Set the directory to look for the kernel source when building external
modules.
The directory can be specified in several ways:
1) Use "M=..." on the command line
-2) Environmnet variable KBUILD_EXTMOD
-3) Environmnet variable SUBDIRS
+2) Environment variable KBUILD_EXTMOD
+3) Environment variable SUBDIRS
The possibilities are listed in the order they take precedence.
Using "M=..." will always override the others.

KBUILD_OUTPUT
--------------------------------------------------
Specify the output directory when building the kernel.
-The output directory can also be specificed using "O=...".
+The output directory can also be specified using "O=...".
Setting "O=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_OUTPUT.

ARCH
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ The script will be called with the following arguments:
$3 - kernel map file
$4 - default install path (use root directory if blank)

-The implmentation of "make install" is architecture specific
+The implementation of "make install" is architecture specific
and it may differ from the above.

INSTALLKERNEL is provided to enable the possibility to
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index 71c602d..c0c9b1c 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -284,12 +284,12 @@ more details, with real examples.
--- 3.7 Compilation flags

ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y
- The three flags listed above applies only to the kbuild makefile
- where they are assigned. They are used for all the normal
- cc, as and ld invocation happenign during a recursive build.
+ These three flags apply only to the kbuild makefile in which they
+ are assigned. They are used for all the normal cc, as and ld
+ invocations happening during a recursive build.
Note: Flags with the same behaviour were previously named:
EXTRA_CFLAGS, EXTRA_AFLAGS and EXTRA_LDFLAGS.
- They are yet supported but their use are deprecated.
+ They are still supported but their usage is deprecated.

ccflags-y specifies options for compiling C files with $(CC).

@@ -318,9 +318,9 @@ more details, with real examples.
ldflags-y := -x

subdir-ccflags-y, subdir-asflags-y
- The two flags listed above are similar to ccflags-y and as-falgs-y.
- The difference is that the subdir- variants has effect for the kbuild
- file where tey are present and all subdirectories.
+ The two flags listed above are similar to ccflags-y and as-flags-y.
+ The difference is that the subdir- variants have effect for the kbuild
+ file where they are present and all subdirectories.
Options specified using subdir-* are added to the commandline before
the options specified using the non-subdir variants.

@@ -1176,14 +1176,14 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
=== 7 Kbuild syntax for exported headers

The kernel include a set of headers that is exported to userspace.
-Many headers can be exported as-is but other headers requires a
+Many headers can be exported as-is but other headers require a
minimal pre-processing before they are ready for user-space.
The pre-processing does:
- drop kernel specific annotations
- drop include of compiler.h
-- drop all sections that is kernel internat (guarded by ifdef __KERNEL__)
+- drop all sections that are kernel internal (guarded by ifdef __KERNEL__)

-Each relevant directory contain a file name "Kbuild" which specify the
+Each relevant directory contains a file name "Kbuild" which specifies the
headers to be exported.
See subsequent chapter for the syntax of the Kbuild file.

--
1.7.1

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