'Lose' is when you don't win or you've lost something, and 'loose'
is when something isn't tight. I just want to tighten up the
spelling a bit regarding some loose comments.
Signed-off-by: Nick Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Yes, this is a digression.
Documentation/edac.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt | 2 +-
arch/mips/kernel/vpe.c | 2 +-
arch/sh/lib64/c-checksum.c | 4 ++--
drivers/char/serial167.c | 2 +-
drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c | 2 +-
drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c | 2 +-
drivers/misc/ibmasm/event.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/spider_net.c | 2 +-
drivers/serial/mpc52xx_uart.c | 4 ++--
drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 2 +-
fs/jffs2/fs.c | 2 +-
fs/ntfs/aops.c | 2 +-
include/linux/securebits.h | 2 +-
mm/migrate.c | 2 +-
mm/slub.c | 4 ++--
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c | 2 +-
net/wireless/wext.c | 2 +-
18 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/edac.txt b/Documentation/edac.txt
index a5c3684..bad5fef 100644
--- a/Documentation/edac.txt
+++ b/Documentation/edac.txt
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ Polling period control file:
The time period, in milliseconds, for polling for error information.
Too small a value wastes resources. Too large a value might delay
- necessary handling of errors and might loose valuable information for
+ necessary handling of errors and might lose valuable information for
locating the error. 1000 milliseconds (once each second) is the current
default. Systems which require all the bandwidth they can get, may
increase this.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt
b/Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt
index bd0fa77..28f0225 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ the a little strange:
Finder's metadata.
o They are however created (with default values), deleted and renamed
along with the corresponding data fork or directory.
- o Copying files to a different filesystem will loose those attributes
+ o Copying files to a different filesystem will lose those attributes
that are essential for MacOS to work.
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vpe.c b/arch/mips/kernel/vpe.c
index eed2dc4..c6cf1ae 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/vpe.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vpe.c
@@ -1112,7 +1112,7 @@ static int vpe_release(struct inode *inode, struct file
*filp)
/* It's good to be able to run the SP and if it chokes have a look at
the /dev/rt?. But if we reset the pointer to the shared struct we
- loose what has happened. So perhaps if garbage is sent to the vpe
+ lose what has happened. So perhaps if garbage is sent to the vpe
device, use it as a trigger for the reset. Hopefully a nice
executable will be along shortly. */
if (ret < 0)
diff --git a/arch/sh/lib64/c-checksum.c b/arch/sh/lib64/c-checksum.c
index 5dfbd8b..83d0776 100644
--- a/arch/sh/lib64/c-checksum.c
+++ b/arch/sh/lib64/c-checksum.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ static inline unsigned short foldto16(unsigned long x)
static inline unsigned short myfoldto16(unsigned long long x)
{
- /* Fold down to 32-bits so we don't loose in the typedef-less
+ /* Fold down to 32-bits so we don't lose in the typedef-less
network stack. */
/* 64 to 33 */
x = (x & 0xffffffff) + (x >> 32);
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ __wsum csum_tcpudp_nofold(__be32 saddr, __be32 daddr,
result = (__force u64) saddr + (__force u64) daddr +
(__force u64) sum + ((len + proto) << 8);
- /* Fold down to 32-bits so we don't loose in the typedef-less
+ /* Fold down to 32-bits so we don't lose in the typedef-less
network stack. */
/* 64 to 33 */
result = (result & 0xffffffff) + (result >> 32);
diff --git a/drivers/char/serial167.c b/drivers/char/serial167.c
index df8cd0c..201eb83 100644
--- a/drivers/char/serial167.c
+++ b/drivers/char/serial167.c
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ static irqreturn_t cd2401_rxerr_interrupt(int irq, void
*dev_id)
TTY_OVERRUN);
/*
If the flip buffer itself is
- overflowing, we still loose
+ overflowing, we still lose
the next incoming character.
*/
if (tty_buffer_request_room(tty, 1) !=
diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c b/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c
index 0e5701b..a24fa6c 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c
@@ -2784,7 +2784,7 @@ static void av7110_irq(struct saa7146_dev* dev, u32 *isr)
* we must do it here even though saa7146_core did it already),
* and b) that if we were to disable an edge triggered irq
* (like the gpio irqs sadly are) temporarily we would likely
- * loose some. This sucks :-(
+ * lose some. This sucks :-(
*/
SAA7146_IER_DISABLE(av7110->dev, MASK_19);
SAA7146_ISR_CLEAR(av7110->dev, MASK_19);
diff --git a/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c b/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c
index a953148..704843e 100644
--- a/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c
+++ b/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ static inline void i2o_block_sglist_free(struct
i2o_block_request *ireq)
* @req: the request to prepare
*
* Allocate the necessary i2o_block_request struct and connect it to
- * the request. This is needed that we not loose the SG list later on.
+ * the request. This is needed that we not lose the SG list later on.
*
* Returns BLKPREP_OK on success or BLKPREP_DEFER on failure.
*/
diff --git a/drivers/misc/ibmasm/event.c b/drivers/misc/ibmasm/event.c
index fda6a4d..68a0a5b 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ibmasm/event.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ibmasm/event.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ static void wake_up_event_readers(struct service_processor
*sp)
* Store the event in the circular event buffer, wake up any sleeping
* event readers.
* There is no reader marker in the buffer, therefore readers are
- * responsible for keeping up with the writer, or they will loose events.
+ * responsible for keeping up with the writer, or they will lose events.
*/
void ibmasm_receive_event(struct service_processor *sp, void *data, unsigned
int data_size)
{
diff --git a/drivers/net/spider_net.c b/drivers/net/spider_net.c
index bccae7e..092b57d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/spider_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/spider_net.c
@@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ spider_net_set_low_watermark(struct spider_net_card *card)
* spider_net_release_tx_chain releases the tx descriptors that spider has
* finished with (if non-brutal) or simply release tx descriptors (if brutal).
* If some other context is calling this function, we return 1 so that we're
- * scheduled again (if we were scheduled) and will not loose initiative.
+ * scheduled again (if we were scheduled) and will not lose initiative.
*/
static int
spider_net_release_tx_chain(struct spider_net_card *card, int brutal)
diff --git a/drivers/serial/mpc52xx_uart.c b/drivers/serial/mpc52xx_uart.c
index a638f23..1e5bd15 100644
--- a/drivers/serial/mpc52xx_uart.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/mpc52xx_uart.c
@@ -602,8 +602,8 @@ mpc52xx_uart_set_termios(struct uart_port *port, struct
ktermios *new,
/* Update the per-port timeout */
uart_update_timeout(port, new->c_cflag, baud);
- /* Do our best to flush TX & RX, so we don't loose anything */
- /* But we don't wait indefinitly ! */
+ /* Do our best to flush TX & RX, so we don't lose anything */
+ /* But we don't wait indefinitely ! */
j = 5000000; /* Maximum wait */
/* FIXME Can't receive chars since set_termios might be called at early
* boot for the console, all stuff is not yet ready to receive at that
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
index 76db2fe..57a39d7 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
@@ -1149,7 +1149,7 @@ static int ftdi_open (struct usb_serial_port *port,
struct file *filp)
priv->interface, buf, 0, WDR_TIMEOUT);
/* Termios defaults are set by usb_serial_init. We don't change
- port->tty->termios - this would loose speed settings, etc.
+ port->tty->termios - this would lose speed settings, etc.
This is same behaviour as serial.c/rs_open() - Kuba */
/* ftdi_set_termios will send usb control messages */
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/fs.c b/fs/jffs2/fs.c
index e26ea78..4c8c34a 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/fs.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/fs.c
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ int jffs2_remount_fs (struct super_block *sb, int *flags,
char *data)
/* We stop if it was running, then restart if it needs to.
This also catches the case where it was stopped and this
is just a remount to restart it.
- Flush the writebuffer, if neccecary, else we loose it */
+ Flush the writebuffer, if necessary, else we lose it */
if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
jffs2_stop_garbage_collect_thread(c);
down(&c->alloc_sem);
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/aops.c b/fs/ntfs/aops.c
index 00e9ccd..54059b5 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/aops.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/aops.c
@@ -1298,7 +1298,7 @@ done:
if (unlikely(err && err != -ENOMEM)) {
/*
* Set page error if there is only one ntfs record in the page.
- * Otherwise we would loose per-record granularity.
+ * Otherwise we would lose per-record granularity.
*/
if (ni->itype.index.block_size == PAGE_CACHE_SIZE)
SetPageError(page);
diff --git a/include/linux/securebits.h b/include/linux/securebits.h
index 5b06178..c0c430d 100644
--- a/include/linux/securebits.h
+++ b/include/linux/securebits.h
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ extern unsigned securebits;
#define SECURE_NOROOT 0
/* When set, setuid to/from uid 0 does not trigger capability-"fixes"
- to be compatible with old programs relying on set*uid to loose
+ to be compatible with old programs relying on set*uid to lose
privileges. When unset, setuid doesn't change privileges. */
#define SECURE_NO_SETUID_FIXUP 2
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index a73504f..333db6c 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ static int writeout(struct address_space *mapping, struct
page *page)
/*
* A dirty page may imply that the underlying filesystem has
* the page on some queue. So the page must be clean for
- * migration. Writeout may mean we loose the lock and the
+ * migration. Writeout may mean we lose the lock and the
* page state is no longer what we checked for earlier.
* At this point we know that the migration attempt cannot
* be successful.
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 74c65af..70930ea 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -744,7 +744,7 @@ static int check_object(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page
*page,
if (!check_valid_pointer(s, page, get_freepointer(s, p))) {
object_err(s, page, p, "Freepointer corrupt");
/*
- * No choice but to zap it and thus loose the remainder
+ * No choice but to zap it and thus lose the remainder
* of the free objects in this slab. May cause
* another error because the object count is now wrong.
*/
@@ -4241,7 +4241,7 @@ static void sysfs_slab_remove(struct kmem_cache *s)
/*
* Need to buffer aliases during bootup until sysfs becomes
- * available lest we loose that information.
+ * available lest we lose that information.
*/
struct saved_alias {
struct kmem_cache *s;
diff --git a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c
b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c
index 07505ca..88c0be7 100644
--- a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c
+++ b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ void ieee80211softmac_init_bss(struct
ieee80211softmac_device *mac)
struct ieee80211softmac_bss_info *bssinfo = &mac->bssinfo;
/* TODO: We need some kind of state machine to lower the default rates
- * if we loose too many packets.
+ * if we lose too many packets.
*/
/* Change the default txrate to the highest possible value.
* The txrate machine will lower it, if it is too high.
diff --git a/net/wireless/wext.c b/net/wireless/wext.c
index 2c569b6..fb15b07 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext.c
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
* o Remove spy_offset from struct iw_handler_def
* o Start deprecating dev->get_wireless_stats, output a warning
* o If IW_QUAL_DBM is set, show dBm values in /proc/net/wireless
- * o Don't loose INVALID/DBM flags when clearing UPDATED flags (iwstats)
+ * o Don't lose INVALID/DBM flags when clearing UPDATED flags (iwstats)
*
* v8 - 17.02.06 - Jean II
* o RtNetlink requests support (SET/GET)
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