Fix several typos in help text in Kconfig* files.
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dave@jikos.cz>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
select HOTPLUG
select PCCARD_NONSTATIC
help
- Enabled the ETRAX Carbus driver.
+ Enabled the ETRAX Cardbus driver.
config PCI
bool
bool "Message Output for GDB MagicPrint service"
depends on (H8300H_SIM || H8S_SIM)
help
- kernel messages output useing MagicPrint service from GDB
+ kernel messages output using MagicPrint service from GDB
config SYSCALL_PRINT
bool "SystemCall trace print"
help
- outout history of systemcall
+ output history of systemcall
config GDB_DEBUG
bool "Use gdb stub"
bool "Core 2/newer Xeon"
help
Select this for Intel Core 2 and newer Core 2 Xeons (Xeon 51xx and 53xx)
- CPUs. You can distingush newer from older Xeons by the CPU family
+ CPUs. You can distinguish newer from older Xeons by the CPU family
in /proc/cpuinfo. Newer ones have 6.
config MPENTIUM4
help
Select this for an IDT Winchip-2A or 3. Linux and GCC
treat this chip as a 586TSC with some extended instructions
- and alignment reqirements. Also enable out of order memory
+ and alignment requirements. Also enable out of order memory
stores for this CPU, which can increase performance of some
operations.
help
kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your
current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot
- but it is indepedent of the system firmware. And like a reboot
+ but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot
you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux.
The name comes from the similiarity to the exec system call.
config FULLDEBUG
bool "Full Symbolic/Source Debugging support"
help
- Enable debuging symbols on kernel build.
+ Enable debugging symbols on kernel build.
config HIGHPROFILE
bool "Use fast second timer for profiling"
byte order. These modes require different kernels and a different
Linux distribution. In general there is one preferred byteorder for a
particular system but some systems are just as commonly used in the
- one or the other endianess.
+ one or the other endianness.
config CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
bool "Big endian"
bool
default y if SGI_IP27
help
- Say Y to upport efficient handling of discontiguous physical memory,
+ Say Y to support efficient handling of discontiguous physical memory,
for architectures which are either NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access)
or have huge holes in the physical address space for other reasons.
See <file:Documentation/vm/numa> for more.
help
kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your
current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot
- but it is indepedent of the system firmware. And like a reboot
+ but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot
you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux.
The name comes from the similiarity to the exec system call.
depends on PPC_PSERIES && DEBUG_FS
help
Adds code to keep track of the number of hypervisor calls made and
- the amount of time spent in hypervisor callsr. Wall time spent in
+ the amount of time spent in hypervisor calls. Wall time spent in
each call is always calculated, and if available CPU cycles spent
are also calculated. A directory named hcall_inst is added at the
root of the debugfs filesystem. Within the hcall_inst directory
default "m"
help
Select this option if you want to use the s390 pseudo random number
- generator. The PRNG is part of the cryptograhic processor functions
+ generator. The PRNG is part of the cryptographic processor functions
and uses triple-DES to generate secure random numbers like the
ANSI X9.17 standard. The PRNG is usable via the char device
/dev/prandom.
Keys are allowed to be from 0 to 256 bits in length, in steps
of 8 bits. Also includes the 'Tnepres' algorithm, a reversed
- variant of Serpent for compatibility with old kerneli code.
+ variant of Serpent for compatibility with old kerneli.org code.
See also:
<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/serpent.html>
help
This option enables DMA/PIO support for the later OPTi
controllers found on some old motherboards and in some
- latops
+ laptops.
If unsure, say N.
tristate "National Semiconductor TPM Interface"
depends on TCG_TPM && PNPACPI
---help---
- If you have a TPM security chip from National Semicondutor
+ If you have a TPM security chip from National Semiconductor
say Yes and it will be accessible from within Linux. To
compile this driver as a module, choose M here; the module
will be called tpm_nsc.
default m
help
Say 'Y' here to use the AMD Geode LX processor on-board AES
- engine for the CryptoAPI AES alogrithm.
+ engine for the CryptoAPI AES algorithm.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called geode-aes.
tristate "Support for Apple XServe front panel LEDs"
depends on PPC_PMAC
help
- This driver procides some support to control the front panel
+ This driver provides some support to control the front panel
blue LEDs "vu-meter" of the XServer macs.
endif # MACINTOSH_DRIVERS
bool "RTC UIE emulation on dev interface"
depends on RTC_INTF_DEV
help
- Provides an emulation for RTC_UIE if the underlaying rtc chip
+ Provides an emulation for RTC_UIE if the underlying rtc chip
driver does not expose RTC_UIE ioctls. Those requests generate
once-per-second update interrupts, used for synchronization.
tristate "USB Debugging Device"
depends on USB_SERIAL
help
- Say Y here if you have a USB debugging device used to recieve
+ Say Y here if you have a USB debugging device used to receive
debugging data from another machine. The most common of these
devices is the NetChip TurboCONNECT device.
releases.
If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
- that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class heirachy, in
+ that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in
order to support older versions of udev.
If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later,
"explicit preemption points" to the kernel code. These new
preemption points have been selected to reduce the maximum
latency of rescheduling, providing faster application reactions,
- at the cost of slighly lower throughput.
+ at the cost of slightly lower throughput.
This allows reaction to interactive events by allowing a
low priority process to voluntarily preempt itself even if it
even if it is in kernel mode executing a system call and would
otherwise not be about to reach a natural preemption point.
This allows applications to run more 'smoothly' even when the
- system is under load, at the cost of slighly lower throughput
+ system is under load, at the cost of slightly lower throughput
and a slight runtime overhead to kernel code.
Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop or
tristate "MULTIPATH: round robin algorithm"
depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
help
- Mulitpath routes are chosen according to Round Robin
+ Multipath routes are chosen according to Round Robin
config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_RANDOM
tristate "MULTIPATH: random algorithm"
select CRYPTO
select CRYPTO_MD5
---help---
- RFC2385 specifices a method of giving MD5 protection to TCP sessions.
+ RFC2385 specifies a method of giving MD5 protection to TCP sessions.
Its main (only?) use is to protect BGP sessions between core routers
on the Internet.
packets which enables users to receive the filtered packets
with QUEUE target using libipq.
- THis option enables the old IPv6-only "ip6_queue" implementation
+ This option enables the old IPv6-only "ip6_queue" implementation
which has been obsoleted by the new "nfnetlink_queue" code (see
CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK_QUEUE).
Please note that not all PPTP modes of operation are supported yet.
Specifically these limitations exist:
- - Blindy assumes that control connections are always established
+ - Blindly assumes that control connections are always established
in PNS->PAC direction. This is a violation of RFC2637.
- Only supports a single call within each session
Examples:
For the Fedora Core 3 or 4 Linux distributions, enable this option
- and set the value via the next option. For Fedore Core 5 and later,
+ and set the value via the next option. For Fedora Core 5 and later,
do not enable this option.
If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
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