[PATCH 1/1] Fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt

From: Dmitri Vorobiev
Date: Sun Apr 13 2008 - 14:26:57 EST


A couple of typos crept into the newly added document
about the seq_file interface. This patch corrects those
typos and simultaneously deletes a few superfluous blanks.

Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt | 18 +++++++++---------
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
index cc6cdb9..2b6aba6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The seq_file interface


There are numerous ways for a device driver (or other kernel component) to
-provide information to the user or system administrator. One useful
+provide information to the user or system administrator. One useful
technique is the creation of virtual files, in debugfs, /proc or elsewhere.
Virtual files can provide human-readable output that is easy to get at
without any special utility programs; they can also make life easier for
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ grown over the years.
Creating those files correctly has always been a bit of a challenge,
however. It is not that hard to make a virtual file which returns a
string. But life gets trickier if the output is long - anything greater
-than an application is likely to read in a single operation. Handling
+than an application is likely to read in a single operation. Handling
multiple reads (and seeks) requires careful attention to the reader's
position within the virtual file - that position is, likely as not, in the
middle of a line of output. The kernel has traditionally had a number of
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ following:

Then concatenate the output files out1 and out2 and get the right
result. Yes, it is a thoroughly useless module, but the point is to show
-how the mechanism works without getting lost in other details. (Those
+how the mechanism works without getting lost in other details. (Those
wanting to see the full source for this module can find it at
http://lwn.net/Articles/22359/).

@@ -92,14 +92,14 @@ implementations; in most cases the start() function should check for a
"past end of file" condition and return NULL if need be.

For more complicated applications, the private field of the seq_file
-structure can be used. There is also a special value whch can be returned
+structure can be used. There is also a special value which can be returned
by the start() function called SEQ_START_TOKEN; it can be used if you wish
to instruct your show() function (described below) to print a header at the
top of the output. SEQ_START_TOKEN should only be used if the offset is
zero, however.

The next function to implement is called, amazingly, next(); its job is to
-move the iterator forward to the next position in the sequence. The
+move the iterator forward to the next position in the sequence. The
example module can simply increment the position by one; more useful
modules will do what is needed to step through some data structure. The
next() function returns a new iterator, or NULL if the sequence is
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ the four functions we have just defined:
This structure will be needed to tie our iterator to the /proc file in
a little bit.

-It's worth noting that the interator value returned by start() and
+It's worth noting that the iterator value returned by start() and
manipulated by the other functions is considered to be completely opaque by
the seq_file code. It can thus be anything that is useful in stepping
through the data to be output. Counters can be useful, but it could also be
@@ -261,13 +261,13 @@ routines useful:
loff_t *ppos);

These helpers will interpret pos as a position within the list and iterate
-accordingly. Your start() and next() functions need only invoke the
-seq_list_* helpers with a pointer to the appropriate list_head structure.
+accordingly. Your start() and next() functions need only invoke the
+seq_list_* helpers with a pointer to the appropriate list_head structure.


The extra-simple version

-For extremely simple virtual files, there is an even easier interface. A
+For extremely simple virtual files, there is an even easier interface. A
module can define only the show() function, which should create all the
output that the virtual file will contain. The file's open() method then
calls:
--
1.5.3

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