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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 4 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt index 10a93696e55a..0d920d54536d 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt @@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ Some devices are known to have faulty MSI implementations. Usually this is handled in the individual device driver, but occasionally it's necessary to handle this with a quirk. Some drivers have an option to disable use of MSI. While this is a convenient workaround for the driver author, -it is not good practise, and should not be emulated. +it is not good practice, and should not be emulated. 5.4. Finding why MSIs are disabled on a device diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 26b1e31d5a13..04c1eddb78aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -369,13 +369,13 @@ you are responsible for last-minute changes. Example : [lucky@maintainer.example.org: struct foo moved from foo.c to foo.h] Signed-off-by: Lucky K Maintainer <lucky@maintainer.example.org> -This practise is particularly helpful if you maintain a stable branch and +This practice is particularly helpful if you maintain a stable branch and want at the same time to credit the author, track changes, merge the fix, and protect the submitter from complaints. Note that under no circumstances can you change the author's identity (the From header), as it is the one which appears in the changelog. -Special note to back-porters: It seems to be a common and useful practise +Special note to back-porters: It seems to be a common and useful practice to insert an indication of the origin of a patch at the top of the commit message (just after the subject line) to facilitate tracking. For instance, here's what we see in 2.6-stable : |