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authorDmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>2008-04-02 13:04:45 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-02 15:28:19 -0700
commite8d49f3a6fec38cc83ae3221c3df0649d021c30c (patch)
treec248fd8e84705aa449d42a3090f063db632b3505 /Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt
parentc143d43aa3149b83e4b40624a27aa2b18638afec (diff)
Fix typos in Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt
This patch deletes a couple of superfluous word occurrences in the document Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt. Thanks to Sebastien Dugue for the remark about English usage. Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt b/Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ here; a summary of the common scenarios is presented below:
unaligned access to be corrected.
- Some architectures are not capable of unaligned memory access, but will
silently perform a different memory access to the one that was requested,
- resulting a a subtle code bug that is hard to detect!
+ resulting in a subtle code bug that is hard to detect!
It should be obvious from the above that if your code causes unaligned
memory accesses to happen, your code will not work correctly on certain
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ memory and you wish to avoid unaligned access, its usage is as follows:
u32 value = get_unaligned((u32 *) data);
-These macros work work for memory accesses of any length (not just 32 bits as
+These macros work for memory accesses of any length (not just 32 bits as
in the examples above). Be aware that when compared to standard access of
aligned memory, using these macros to access unaligned memory can be costly in
terms of performance.