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authorMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>2007-10-20 01:34:40 +0200
committerAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>2007-10-20 01:34:40 +0200
commit01dd2fbf0da4019c380b6ca22a074538fb31db5a (patch)
tree210291bd341c4450c8c51d8db890af0978f4035d /Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt
parent0f035b8e8491f4ff87f6eec3e3f754d36b39d7a2 (diff)
typo fixes
Most of these fixes were already submitted for old kernel versions, and were approved, but for some reason they never made it into the releases. Because this is a consolidation of a couple old missed patches, it touches both Kconfigs and documentation texts. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Deferred IO
Deferred IO is a way to delay and repurpose IO. It uses host memory as a
buffer and the MMU pagefault as a pretrigger for when to perform the device
-IO. The following example may be a useful explaination of how one such setup
+IO. The following example may be a useful explanation of how one such setup
works:
- userspace app like Xfbdev mmaps framebuffer
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ a relatively more expensive operation.
For some types of nonvolatile high latency displays, the desired image is
the final image rather than the intermediate stages which is why it's okay
-to not update for each write that is occuring.
+to not update for each write that is occurring.
It may be the case that this is useful in other scenarios as well. Paul Mundt
has mentioned a case where it is beneficial to use the page count to decide