linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kbuild: fixed typos and wording

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Message-Id: <20100626173736.e5946273.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:37:36 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@...ai.net>
Cc:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kbuild: fixed typos and wording

On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:00:21 +0200 Nicolas Kaiser wrote:

> Fixed some typos and wording.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@...ai.net>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>

Thanks.

> ---
>  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.
>  
> -- 

---
~Randy
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