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While the basic functions are defined to be synchronous with respect
to each other and ordered with respect to each other the busses the
- devices sit on may themselves have asynchronocity. In paticular many
+ devices sit on may themselves have asynchronicity. In particular many
authors are burned by the fact that PCI bus writes are posted
asynchronously. A driver author must issue a read from the same
device to ensure that writes have occurred in the specific cases the
this port is not "Sense". If autonegotiation is "On", all
three values are possible. If it is "Off", only "Full" and
"Half" are allowed.
- It is usefull if your link partner does not support all
+ It is useful if your link partner does not support all
possible combinations.
- Flow Control
If the system still runs but only a subcomponent which uses dbf failes,
it is possible to look at the debug logs on a live system via the Linux proc
filesystem.
-The debug feature may also very usefull for kernel and driver development.
+The debug feature may also very useful for kernel and driver development.
Design:
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{
printk(KERN_INFO " *** Possibly defective BIOS detected (irqtable)\n");
printk(KERN_INFO " *** Many BIOSes matching this signature have incorrect IRQ routing tables.\n");
- printk(KERN_INFO " *** If you see IRQ problems, in paticular SCSI resets and hangs at boot\n");
+ printk(KERN_INFO " *** If you see IRQ problems, in particular SCSI resets and hangs at boot\n");
printk(KERN_INFO " *** contact your hardware vendor and ask about updates.\n");
printk(KERN_INFO " *** Building an SMP kernel may evade the bug some of the time.\n");
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC
pin--;
- /* Nothing usefull at PIIX4 pin 1 */
+ /* Nothing useful at PIIX4 pin 1 */
if (bus == pci_bus0 && slot == 4 && pin == 0)
return -1;
/*
* Do we need these probe functions on the m68k?
*
- * ... may be usefull with ISA devices
+ * ... may be useful with ISA devices
*/
unsigned long probe_irq_on (void)
{
* @regs: Register data (surplus to our requirements)
*
* Handle the ether interface interrupts. The 3c501 needs a lot more
- * hand holding than most cards. In paticular we get a transmit interrupt
+ * hand holding than most cards. In particular we get a transmit interrupt
* with a collision error because the board firmware isnt capable of rewinding
* its own transmit buffer pointers. It can however count to 16 for us.
*
* @dev: Device to pull the packets from
*
* We have a good packet. Well, not really "good", just mostly not broken.
- * We must check everything to see if it is good. In paticular we occasionally
+ * We must check everything to see if it is good. In particular we occasionally
* get wild packet sizes from the card. If the packet seems sane we PIO it
* off the card and queue it for the protocol layers.
*/
* Because MCA bus is a real bus and we can scan for cards we could do a
* single scan for all boards here. Right now we use the passed in device
* structure and scan for only one board. This needs fixing for modules
- * in paticular.
+ * in particular.
*/
int __init mc32_probe(struct net_device *dev)
* -Fixed bug for RX counters. On an RX overflow interrupt the high
* words of all RX counters were incremented.
* -SET operations on FLOWCTRL_MODE and LINK_MODE accept now the
- * value 0, which has no effect. It is usefull for multiple instance
+ * value 0, which has no effect. It is useful for multiple instance
* SETs.
*
* Revision 1.37 1998/11/20 08:02:04 mhaveman
* Description:
* Calls a general sub-function for all this stuff. The preset does
* the same as a set, but returns just before finally setting the
- * new value. This is usefull to check if a set might be successfull.
+ * new value. This is useful to check if a set might be successful.
* If as instance a -1 is passed, an array of values is supposed and
* all instance of the OID will be set.
*
* Description:
* Calls a general sub-function for all this stuff. The preset does
* the same as a set, but returns just before finally setting the
- * new value. This is usefull to check if a set might be successfull.
+ * new value. This is useful to check if a set might be successful.
* If as instance a -1 is passed, an array of values is supposed and
* all instance of the OID will be set.
*
* Description:
* Calls a general sub-function for all this set stuff. The preset does
* the same as a set, but returns just before finally setting the
- * new value. This is usefull to check if a set might be successfull.
+ * new value. This is useful to check if a set might be successful.
* The sub-function runs through the IdTable, checks which OIDs are able
* to set, and calls the handler function of the OID to perform the
* preset. The return value of the function will also be stored in
*
* Description:
* The COMMON module only tells us if the mode is half or full duplex.
- * But in the decade of auto sensing it is usefull for the user to
+ * But in the decade of auto sensing it is useful for the user to
* know if the mode was negotiated or forced. Therefore we have a
* look to the mode, which was last used by the negotiation process.
*
*/
/* Statistics Registers. All of these registers are 16-bits and
- * track occurances of a specific event. GEM can be configured
+ * track occurrences of a specific event. GEM can be configured
* to interrupt the host cpu when any of these counters overflow.
* They should all be explicitly initialized to zero when the interface
* is brought up.
* host_int The contents of the HOST_INT
* port.
*
- * This driver is structured to determine EOC occurances by
+ * This driver is structured to determine EOC occurrences by
* reading the CSTAT member of the list structure. Tx EOC
* interrupts are disabled via the DIO INTDIS register.
* However, TLAN chips before revision 3.0 didn't have this
* host_int The contents of the HOST_INT
* port.
*
- * This driver is structured to determine EOC occurances by
+ * This driver is structured to determine EOC occurrences by
* reading the CSTAT member of the list structure. Rx EOC
* interrupts are disabled via the DIO INTDIS register.
* However, TLAN chips before revision 3.0 didn't have this
/*
* Cancels a request that was started with dasd_sleep_on_req.
- * This is usefull to timeout requests. The request will be
+ * This is useful to timeout requests. The request will be
* terminated if it is currently in i/o.
* Returns 1 if the request has been terminated.
*/
/* Befs B+tree structure:
*
* The first thing in the tree is the tree superblock. It tells you
- * all kinds of usefull things about the tree, like where the rootnode
+ * all kinds of useful things about the tree, like where the rootnode
* is located, and the size of the nodes (always 1024 with current version
* of BeOS).
*
* UniStrchr: Find a character in a string
*
* Returns:
- * Address of first occurance of character in string
+ * Address of first occurrence of character in string
* or NULL if the character is not in the string
*/
static inline wchar_t *
/*
* Remove the item from the list and perform its initialization.
- * This is usefull for us because we can test if the item is linked
+ * This is useful for us because we can test if the item is linked
* using "EP_IS_LINKED(p)".
*/
#define EP_LIST_DEL(p) do { list_del(p); INIT_LIST_HEAD(p); } while (0)
* Very simple lz77-ish encoder.
*
* Theory of operation: Both encoder and decoder have a list of "last
- * occurances" for every possible source-value; after sending the
+ * occurrences" for every possible source-value; after sending the
* first source-byte, the second byte indicated the "run" length of
* matches
*
* and conflicting.
*
* WARNING: Calling pm_send directly is not generally recommended, in
- * paticular there is no locking against the pm_dev going away. The
+ * particular there is no locking against the pm_dev going away. The
* caller must maintain all needed locking or have 'inside knowledge'
* on the safety. Also remember that this function is not locked against
* pm_unregister. This means that you must handle SMP races on callback
return cur_time;
}
-/* TODO: use interpolation on tick queue (will only be usefull for very
+/* TODO: use interpolation on tick queue (will only be useful for very
high PPQ values) */
snd_seq_tick_time_t snd_seq_timer_get_cur_tick(seq_timer_t *tmr)
{
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