Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits)
  Documentation/kernel-docs.txt update.
  arch/cris: typo in KERN_INFO
  Storage class should be before const qualifier
  kernel/printk.c: comment fix
  update I/O sched Kconfig help texts - CFQ is now default, not AS.
  Remove duplicate listing of Cris arch from README
  kbuild: more doc. cleanups
  doc: make doc. for maxcpus= more visible
  drivers/net/eexpress.c: remove duplicate comment
  add a help text for BLK_DEV_GENERIC
  correct a dead URL in the IP_MULTICAST help text
  fix the BAYCOM_SER_HDX help text
  fix SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC help text
  trivial documentation patch for platform.txt
  Fix typos concerning hierarchy
  Fix comment typo "spin_lock_irqrestore".
  Fix misspellings of "agressive".
  drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c: trivial typo patch
  Correct trivial typo in log2.h.
  Remove useless FIND_FIRST_BIT() macro from cardbus.c.
  ...

7 files changed, 149 insertions, 157 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
index 9f0bc3bfd776..f7c9262b2dc8 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
+++ b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ runtime memory footprint:
 
 Device Enumeration
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-As a rule, platform specific (and often board-specific) setup code wil
+As a rule, platform specific (and often board-specific) setup code will
 register platform devices:
 
 	int platform_device_register(struct platform_device *pdev);
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ It's built from two components:
     * platform_device.id ... the device instance number, or else "-1"
       to indicate there's only one.
 
-These are catenated, so name/id "serial"/0 indicates bus_id "serial.0", and
+These are concatenated, so name/id "serial"/0 indicates bus_id "serial.0", and
 "serial/3" indicates bus_id "serial.3"; both would use the platform_driver
 named "serial".  While "my_rtc"/-1 would be bus_id "my_rtc" (no instance id)
 and use the platform_driver called "my_rtc".
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
index 7ba2baa165ff..5daa2aaec2c5 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Accessing legacy resources through sysfs
 ----------------------------------------
 
 Legacy I/O port and ISA memory resources are also provided in sysfs if the
-underlying platform supports them.  They're located in the PCI class heirarchy,
+underlying platform supports them.  They're located in the PCI class hierarchy,
 e.g.
 
 	/sys/class/pci_bus/0000:17/
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index 4b3d6710c504..bb5306e9a5c3 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles.
 	   --- 6.1 Set variables to tweak the build to the architecture
 	   --- 6.2 Add prerequisites to archprepare:
 	   --- 6.3 List directories to visit when descending
-	   --- 6.4 Architecture specific boot images
+	   --- 6.4 Architecture-specific boot images
 	   --- 6.5 Building non-kbuild targets
 	   --- 6.6 Commands useful for building a boot image
 	   --- 6.7 Custom kbuild commands
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ more details, with real examples.
 	Example:
 		obj-y += foo.o
 
-	This tell kbuild that there is one object in that directory, named
+	This tells kbuild that there is one object in that directory, named
 	foo.o. foo.o will be built from foo.c or foo.S.
 
 	If foo.o shall be built as a module, the variable obj-m is used.
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ more details, with real examples.
 	Special rules are used when the kbuild infrastructure does
 	not provide the required support. A typical example is
 	header files generated during the build process.
-	Another example are the architecture specific Makefiles which
+	Another example are the architecture-specific Makefiles which
 	need special rules to prepare boot images etc.
 
 	Special rules are written as normal Make rules.
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ more details, with real examples.
 		#arch/i386/kernel/Makefile
 		vsyscall-flags += $(call ld-option, -Wl$(comma)--hash-style=sysv)
 
-	In the above example vsyscall-flags will be assigned the option
+	In the above example, vsyscall-flags will be assigned the option
 	-Wl$(comma)--hash-style=sysv if it is supported by $(CC).
 	The second argument is optional, and if supplied will be used
 	if first argument is not supported.
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ more details, with real examples.
 		#arch/i386/Makefile
 		cflags-y += $(call cc-option,-march=pentium-mmx,-march=i586)
 
-	In the above example cflags-y will be assigned the option
+	In the above example, cflags-y will be assigned the option
 	-march=pentium-mmx if supported by $(CC), otherwise -march=i586.
 	The second argument to cc-option is optional, and if omitted,
 	cflags-y will be assigned no value if first option is not supported.
@@ -750,10 +750,10 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
    located at the root of the obj tree.
    The very first objects linked are listed in head-y, assigned by
    arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile.
-7) Finally, the architecture specific part does any required post processing
+7) Finally, the architecture-specific part does any required post processing
    and builds the final bootimage.
    - This includes building boot records
-   - Preparing initrd images and thelike
+   - Preparing initrd images and the like
 
 
 --- 6.1 Set variables to tweak the build to the architecture
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
 
 	$(head-y) lists objects to be linked first in vmlinux.
 	$(libs-y) lists directories where a lib.a archive can be located.
-	The rest lists directories where a built-in.o object file can be
+	The rest list directories where a built-in.o object file can be
 	located.
 
 	$(init-y) objects will be located after $(head-y).
@@ -888,7 +888,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
 	$(core-y), $(libs-y), $(drivers-y) and $(net-y).
 
 	The top level Makefile defines values for all generic directories,
-	and arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile only adds architecture specific directories.
+	and arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile only adds architecture-specific directories.
 
 	Example:
 		#arch/sparc64/Makefile
@@ -897,7 +897,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
 		drivers-$(CONFIG_OPROFILE)  += arch/sparc64/oprofile/
 
 
---- 6.4 Architecture specific boot images
+--- 6.4 Architecture-specific boot images
 
 	An arch Makefile specifies goals that take the vmlinux file, compress
 	it, wrap it in bootstrapping code, and copy the resulting files
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
 	"$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=<dir>" is the recommended way to invoke
 	make in a subdirectory.
 
-	There are no rules for naming architecture specific targets,
+	There are no rules for naming architecture-specific targets,
 	but executing "make help" will list all relevant targets.
 	To support this, $(archhelp) must be defined.
 
@@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
 			$(call if_changed,ld/objcopy/gzip)
 
 	When the rule is evaluated, it is checked to see if any files
-	needs an update, or the command line has changed since the last
+	need an update, or the command line has changed since the last
 	invocation. The latter will force a rebuild if any options
 	to the executable have changed.
 	Any target that utilises if_changed must be listed in $(targets),
@@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
 	                  assignment.
 
 	The kbuild infrastructure for *lds file are used in several
-	architecture specific files.
+	architecture-specific files.
 
 
 === 7 Kbuild Variables
@@ -1133,7 +1133,7 @@ The top Makefile exports the following variables:
 
 	This variable defines a place for the arch Makefiles to install
 	the resident kernel image and System.map file.
-	Use this for architecture specific install targets.
+	Use this for architecture-specific install targets.
 
     INSTALL_MOD_PATH, MODLIB
 
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt
index b53bccbd9727..c68dafeda7a7 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 
-       Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or
-                                      
-                      Understanding the Linux Kernel.
-                                      
-               Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es>
-                                      
+    Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or
+
+                   Understanding the Linux Kernel.
+
+          Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es>
+
 /*
  * The latest version of this document may be found at:
  *   http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html
@@ -61,18 +61,18 @@
        13.-The Linux Kernel Sources, A.-Linux Data Structures, B.-The
        Alpha AXP Processor, C.-Useful Web and FTP Sites, D.-The GNU
        General Public License, Glossary". In short: a must have.
-       
-     * Title: "The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide"
-       Author: Michael K.Johnson and others.
-       URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
-       Keywords: everything!
-       Description: No more Postscript book-like version. Only HTML now.
-       Many people have contributed. The interface is similar to web
-       available mailing lists archives. You can find some articles and
-       then some mails asking questions about them and/or complementing
-       previous contributions. A little bit anarchic in this aspect, but
-       with some valuable information in some cases.
-       
+
+     * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition"
+       Author: Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet.
+       URL: http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html
+       Keywords: device drivers, modules, debugging, memory, hardware,
+       interrupt handling, char drivers, block drivers, kmod, mmap, DMA,
+       buses.
+       Description: O'Reilly's popular book, now also on-line under the
+       GNU Free Documentation License.
+       Notes: You can also buy it in paper-form from O'Reilly. See below
+       under BOOKS (Not on-line).
+
      * Title: "Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel"
        Author: Ivan T. Bowman.
        URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a1.html
@@ -81,17 +81,17 @@
        Description: Conceptual software arquitecture of the Linux kernel,
        automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good
        figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding.
-       
+
      * Title: "Concrete Architecture of the Linux Kernel"
        Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Saheem Siddiqi, and Meyer C. Tanuan.
        URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a2.html
-       Keywords: concrete arquitecture, extracted design, reverse
+       Keywords: concrete architecture, extracted design, reverse
        engineering, system structure, dependencies.
-       Description: Concrete arquitecture of the Linux kernel,
+       Description: Concrete architecture of the Linux kernel,
        automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good
        figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding. This papers
        focus on lower details than its predecessor (files, variables...).
-       
+
      * Title: "Linux as a Case Study: Its Extracted Software
        Architecture"
        Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Richard C. Holt and Neil V. Brewster.
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
        Description: Paper appeared at ICSE'99, Los Angeles, May 16-22,
        1999. A mixture of the previous two documents from the same
        author.
-       
+
      * Title: "Overview of the Virtual File System"
        Author: Richard Gooch.
        URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/vfs.txt
@@ -111,20 +111,20 @@
        What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or
        mounting a file system and description of important data
        structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries.
-       
+
      * Title: "The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code"
        Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
-       URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue44/2391.html
+       URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
        Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
        Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
        abstract: "A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
        RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the
        Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
        secondary-storage capability using software".
-       
+
      * Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers"
        Author: Alessandro Rubini.
-       URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue23/1219.html
+       URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
        Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
        allocating resources.
        Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
@@ -134,10 +134,10 @@
        loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the
        topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's
        installment".
-       
+
      * Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Discovery"
        Author: Alessandro Rubini.
-       URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue24/1220.html
+       URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
        Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
        autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
        open(), close().
@@ -146,20 +146,20 @@
        the actual code to create custom module implementing a character
        device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
        cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls".
-       
+
      * Title: "The Devil's in the Details"
        Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
-       URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue25/1221.html
+       URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
        Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
        blocking mode, interrupt handler.
        Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
        abstract: "This article, the third of four on writing character
        device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using
        ioctl-calls".
-       
+
      * Title: "Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA"
        Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
-       URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue26/1222.html
+       URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
        Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
        Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
        abstract: "This is the fourth in a series of articles about
@@ -170,10 +170,10 @@
        writing, and several different facilities have been provided for
        different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of
        DMA".
-       
+
      * Title: "Device Drivers Concluded"
        Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
-       URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue28/1287.html
+       URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
        Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
        demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
        virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
@@ -182,10 +182,10 @@
        five articles about character device drivers. In this final
        section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with
        an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts".
-       
+
      * Title: "Network Buffers And Memory Management"
        Author: Alan Cox.
-       URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue30/1312.html
+       URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
        Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
        variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
        configuration, multicast.
@@ -214,28 +214,26 @@
        of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe
        the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
        envisage".
-       
+
      * Title: "Programming PCI-Devices under Linux"
        Author: Claus Schroeter.
        URL:
-       ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps
-       .gz
+       ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps.gz
        Keywords: PCI, device, busmastering.
        Description: 6 pages tutorial on PCI programming under Linux.
        Gives the basic concepts on the architecture of the PCI subsystem,
        as long as basic functions and macros to read/write the devices
        and perform busmastering.
-       
+
      * Title: "Writing Character Device Driver for Linux"
        Author: R. Baruch and C. Schroeter.
        URL:
-       ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers
-       .ps.gz
+       ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers.ps.gz
        Keywords: character device drivers, I/O, signals, DMA, accessing
        ports in user space, kernel environment.
        Description: 68 pages paper on writing character drivers. A little
        bit old (1.993, 1.994) although still useful.
-       
+
      * Title: "Design and Implementation of the Second Extended
        Filesystem"
        Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
@@ -249,14 +247,14 @@
        e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
        Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
        First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
-       
+
      * Title: "Analysis of the Ext2fs structure"
        Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
-       URL: http://step.polymtl.ca/~ldd/ext2fs/ext2fs_toc.html
+       URL: http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/files/FileSystems/ext2fs/
        Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
        Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
        bitmaps, invariants...
-       
+
      * Title: "Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem"
        Author: Stephen C. Tweedie.
        URL:
@@ -265,7 +263,7 @@
        Description: Excellent 8-pages paper explaining the journaling
        capabilities added to ext2 by the author, showing different
        problems faced and the alternatives chosen.
-       
+
      * Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.0 to 2.2"
        Author: Richard Gooch.
        URL:
@@ -273,7 +271,7 @@
        Keywords: 2.2, changes.
        Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed
        from 2.0.x to 2.2.x.
-       
+
      * Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.2 to 2.4"
        Author: Richard Gooch.
        URL:
@@ -345,17 +343,7 @@
        Notes: Beware: the main page states: "This document may not be
        published, printed or used in excerpts without explicit permission
        of the author". Fortunately, it may still be read...
-       
-     * Title: "Tour Of the Linux Kernel Source"
-       Author: Vijo Cherian.
-       URL: http://www.geocities.com/vijoc/tolks/tolks.html
-       Keywords: .
-       Description: A classic of this page! Was lost for a while and is
-       back again. Thanks Vijo! TOLKS: the name says it all. A tour of
-       the sources, describing directories, files, variables, data
-       structures... It covers general stuff, device drivers,
-       filesystems, IPC and Networking Code.
-       
+
      * Title: "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary"
        Author: various
        URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/
@@ -377,7 +365,17 @@
        kernels, but most of it applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly
        different". Freely redistributable under the conditions of the GNU
        General Public License.
-       
+
+     * Title: "Global spinlock list and usage"
+       Author: Rick Lindsley.
+       URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock
+       Keywords: spinlock.
+       Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and
+       usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive
+       list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions
+       access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it
+       is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held...
+
      * Title: "Porting Linux 2.0 Drivers To Linux 2.2: Changes and New
        Features "
        Author: Alan Cox.
@@ -385,70 +383,70 @@
        Keywords: ports, porting.
        Description: Article from Linux Magazine on porting from 2.0 to
        2.2 kernels.
-       
+
      * Title: "Porting Device Drivers To Linux 2.2: part II"
        Author: Alan Cox.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-06/gear_01.html
        Keywords: ports, porting.
        Description: Second part on porting from 2.0 to 2.2 kernels.
-       
+
      * Title: "How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power
        Macintosh"
        Author: Paul Mackerras.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-07/gear_01.html
        Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility.
        Description: The title says it all.
-       
+
      * Title: "An Introduction to SCSI Drivers"
        Author: Alan Cox.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-08/gear_01.html
        Keywords: SCSI, device, driver.
        Description: The title says it all.
-       
+
      * Title: "Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales"
        Author: Alan Cox.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-09/gear_01.html
        Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced.
        Description: The title says it all.
-       
+
      * Title: "Writing Linux Mouse Drivers"
        Author: Alan Cox.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-10/gear_01.html
        Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm.
        Description: The title says it all.
-       
+
      * Title: "More on Mouse Drivers"
        Author: Alan Cox.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-11/gear_01.html
        Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O.
        Description: The title still says it all.
-       
+
      * Title: "Writing Video4linux Radio Driver"
        Author: Alan Cox.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-12/gear_01.html
        Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
        Description: The title says it all.
-       
+
      * Title: "Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device"
        Author: Alan Cox.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-01/gear_01.html
        Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
        camera driver.
        Description: The title says it all.
-       
+
      * Title: "Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices"
        Author: Alan Cox.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-02/gear_01.html
        Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
        camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
        Description: The title says it all.
-       
+
      * Title: "PCI Management in Linux 2.2"
        Author: Alan Cox.
        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-03/gear_01.html
        Keywords: PCI, bus, bus-mastering.
        Description: The title says it all.
-       
+
      * Title: "Linux 2.4 Kernel Internals"
        Author: Tigran Aivazian and Christoph Hellwig.
        URL: http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/lki.html
@@ -456,13 +454,11 @@
        Description: A little book used for a short training course.
        Covers building the kernel image, booting (including SMP bootup),
        process management, VFS and more.
-       
+
      * Title: "Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and
        Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack."
        Author: Glenn Herrin.
-       URL:
-       http://kernelnewbies.org/documents/ipnetworking/linuxipnetworking.
-       html
+       URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin
        Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection,
        socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets,
        modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
@@ -495,7 +491,7 @@
        drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also
        describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
        Card Services.
-       
+
      * Title: "The Linux Kernel NFSD Implementation"
        Author: Neil Brown.
        URL:
@@ -591,47 +587,22 @@
        Pages: 520.
        ISBN: 2-212-08932-5
        Notes: French.
-       
-     * Title: "The Linux Kernel Book"
-       Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
-       Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.
-       Date: 1998.
-       ISBN: 0-471-98141-9
-       Notes: English translation.
-       
-     * Title: "Linux 2.0"
-       Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
-       Publisher: Gestión 2000.
-       Date: 1997.
-       Pages: 501.
-       ISBN: 8-480-88208-5
-       Notes: Spanish translation.
-       
+
      * Title: "Unix internals -- the new frontiers"
        Author: Uresh Vahalia.
        Publisher: Prentice Hall.
        Date: 1996.
        Pages: 600.
        ISBN: 0-13-101908-2
-       
-     * Title: "Linux Core Kernel Commentary. Guide to Insider's Knowledge
-       on the Core Kernel of the Linux Code"
-       Author: Scott Maxwell.
-       Publisher: Coriolis.
-       Date: 1999.
-       Pages: 592.
-       ISBN: 1-57610-469-9
-       Notes: CD-ROM included. Line by line commentary of the kernel
-       code.
-       
-     * Title: "Linux IP Stacks Commentary"
-       Author: Stephen Satchell and HBJ Clifford.
-       Publisher: Coriolis.
-       Date: 2000.
-       Pages: ???.
-       ISBN: 1-57610-470-2
-       Notes: Line by line source code commentary book.
-       
+
+     * Title:  "The  Design  and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX
+       Operating System"
+       Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels,
+       John S. Quarterman.
+       Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
+       Date: 1996.
+       ISBN: 0-201-54979-4
+
      * Title: "Programming for the real world - POSIX.4"
        Author: Bill O. Gallmeister.
        Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc..
@@ -640,18 +611,32 @@
        ISBN: I-56592-074-0
        Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be
        POSIX. Good reference.
-       
-     * Title: "Understanding the Linux Kernel"
-       Author: Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati.
-       Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc..
-       Date: 2000.
-       Pages: 702.
-       ISBN: 0-596-00002-2
-       Notes: Further information in
-       http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/
-       
+
+     * Title:  "UNIX  Systems  for  Modern Architectures: Symmetric
+       Multiprocesssing and Caching for Kernel Programmers"
+       Author: Curt Schimmel.
+       Publisher: Addison Wesley.
+       Date: June, 1994.
+       Pages: 432.
+       ISBN: 0-201-63338-8
+
+     * Title:  "The  Design  and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX
+       Operating System"
+       Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J.
+       Karels, John S. Quarterman.
+       Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
+       Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990).
+       ISBN: 0-201-06196-1
+
+     * Title: "The Design of the UNIX Operating System"
+       Author: Maurice J. Bach.
+       Publisher: Prentice Hall.
+       Date: 1986.
+       Pages: 471.
+       ISBN: 0-13-201757-1
+
      MISCELLANEOUS:
-   
+
      * Name: linux/Documentation
        Author: Many.
        URL: Just look inside your kernel sources.
@@ -660,7 +645,7 @@
        inside the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document
        (including this document itself) have been moved there, and might
        be more up to date than the web version.
-       
+
      * Name: "Linux Source Driver"
        URL: http://lsd.linux.cz
        Keywords: Browsing source code.
@@ -671,7 +656,7 @@
        you can search Linux kernel (fulltext, macros, types, functions
        and variables) and LSD can generate patches for you on the fly
        (files, directories or kernel)".
-       
+
      * Name: "Linux Kernel Source Reference"
        Author: Thomas Graichen.
        URL: http://innominate.org/~graichen/projects/lksr/
@@ -681,27 +666,27 @@
        sources of any version starting from 1.0 up to the (daily updated)
        current version available. Also you can check the differences
        between two versions of a file".
-       
+
      * Name: "Cross-Referencing Linux"
        URL: http://lxr.linux.no/source/
        Keywords: Browsing source code.
        Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser.
        Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see
        where they are defined and where they are used.
-       
+
      * Name: "Linux Weekly News"
        URL: http://lwn.net
        Keywords: latest kernel news.
        Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section
        summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions
        produced during the week. Published every Thursday.
-       
+
      * Name: "Kernel Traffic"
-       URL: http://www.kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/
+       URL: http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/
        Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list, weekly kernel news.
        Description: Weekly newsletter covering the most relevant
        discussions of the linux-kernel mailing list.
-       
+
      * Name: "CuTTiNG.eDGe.LiNuX"
        URL: http://edge.kernelnotes.org
        Keywords: changelist.
@@ -709,7 +694,7 @@
        release. What's new, what's better, what's changed. Myrdraal reads
        the patches and describes them. Pointers to the patches are there,
        too.
-       
+
      * Name: "New linux-kernel Mailing List FAQ"
        URL: http://www.tux.org/lkml/
        Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list FAQ.
@@ -719,7 +704,7 @@
        it. Read it to see how to join the mailing list. Dozens of
        interesting questions regarding the list, Linux, developers (who
        is ...?), terms (what is...?) are answered here too. Just read it.
-       
+
      * Name: "Linux Virtual File System"
        Author: Peter J. Braam.
        URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/
@@ -727,10 +712,10 @@
        Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the
        Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
        dcache.
-       
+
      * Name: "Gary's Encyclopedia - The Linux Kernel"
        Author: Gary (I suppose...).
-       URL: http://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/kernel.html
+       URL: http://www.lisoleg.net/cgi-bin/lisoleg.pl?view=kernel.htm
        Keywords: links, not found here?.
        Description: Gary's Encyclopedia exists to allow the rapid finding
        of documentation and other information of interest to GNU/Linux
@@ -738,7 +723,7 @@
        categories. This link is for kernel-specific links, documents,
        sites... Look there if you could not find here what you were
        looking for.
-       
+
      * Name: "The home page of Linux-MM"
        Author: The Linux-MM team.
        URL: http://linux-mm.org/
@@ -747,7 +732,7 @@
        Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development.
        Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss
        it if you are interested in memory management development!
-       
+
      * Name: "Kernel Newbies IRC Channel"
        URL: http://www.kernelnewbies.org
        Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts.
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 35470de14a95..c479d30eeaa3 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -864,7 +864,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			Format: <1-256>
 
 	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
-			should make use of
+			should make use of.
+			Using "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0" will disable SMP
+			entirely (the MPS table probe still happens, though).
+			A command-line option of "maxcpus=<NUM>", where <NUM>
+			is an integer greater than 0, limits the maximum number
+			of CPUs activated in SMP mode to <NUM>.
+			Using "maxcpus=1" on an SMP kernel is the trivial
+			case of an SMP kernel with only one CPU.
 
 	max_addr=[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater than or
 			equal to this physical address is ignored.
diff --git a/Documentation/sh/new-machine.txt b/Documentation/sh/new-machine.txt
index 73988e0d112b..5482bf5d005b 100644
--- a/Documentation/sh/new-machine.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sh/new-machine.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ of the board-specific code (with the exception of stboards) ended up
 in arch/sh/kernel/ directly, with board-specific headers ending up in
 include/asm-sh/. For the new kernel, things are broken out by board type,
 companion chip type, and CPU type. Looking at a tree view of this directory
-heirarchy looks like the following:
+hierarchy looks like the following:
 
 Board-specific code:
 
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ overloading), and you can feel free to name the directory after the family
 member itself.
 
 There are a few things that each board is required to have, both in the
-arch/sh/boards and the include/asm-sh/ heirarchy. In order to better
+arch/sh/boards and the include/asm-sh/ hierarchy. In order to better
 explain this, we use some examples for adding an imaginary board. For
 setup code, we're required at the very least to provide definitions for
 get_system_type() and platform_setup(). For our imaginary board, this
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options b/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
index bb7c2cac7917..5ef75787f83a 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ bttv.o
 		i2c_udelay=     Allow reduce I2C speed. Default is 5 usecs
 				(meaning 66,67 Kbps). The default is the
 				maximum supported speed by kernel bitbang
-				algoritm. You may use lower numbers, if I2C
+				algorithm. You may use lower numbers, if I2C
 				messages are lost (16 is known to work on
 				all supported cards).