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authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>2008-02-08 04:19:25 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-08 09:22:29 -0800
commit3eb056764dd806bbe84eb604e45e7470feeaafd8 (patch)
tree97a8fe2123d2c9df2bcb48052ac33d445a00f64c /include/linux/jiffies.h
parentcf4fc6cb76e50b01666e28a9f4b2e6fbcbb96d5f (diff)
time: fix typo in comments
Fix typo in comments. BTW: I have to fix coding style in arch/ia64/kernel/time.c also, otherwise checkpatch.pl will be complaining. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/jiffies.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/jiffies.h6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/jiffies.h b/include/linux/jiffies.h
index 7ba9e47bf06..e0b5b684d83 100644
--- a/include/linux/jiffies.h
+++ b/include/linux/jiffies.h
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
/* LATCH is used in the interval timer and ftape setup. */
#define LATCH ((CLOCK_TICK_RATE + HZ/2) / HZ) /* For divider */
-/* Suppose we want to devide two numbers NOM and DEN: NOM/DEN, the we can
+/* Suppose we want to devide two numbers NOM and DEN: NOM/DEN, then we can
* improve accuracy by shifting LSH bits, hence calculating:
* (NOM << LSH) / DEN
* This however means trouble for large NOM, because (NOM << LSH) may no
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ extern unsigned long preset_lpj;
* We want to do realistic conversions of time so we need to use the same
* values the update wall clock code uses as the jiffies size. This value
* is: TICK_NSEC (which is defined in timex.h). This
- * is a constant and is in nanoseconds. We will used scaled math
+ * is a constant and is in nanoseconds. We will use scaled math
* with a set of scales defined here as SEC_JIFFIE_SC, USEC_JIFFIE_SC and
* NSEC_JIFFIE_SC. Note that these defines contain nothing but
* constants and so are computed at compile time. SHIFT_HZ (computed in
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ extern unsigned long preset_lpj;
* operator if the result is a long long AND at least one of the
* operands is cast to long long (usually just prior to the "*" so as
* not to confuse it into thinking it really has a 64-bit operand,
- * which, buy the way, it can do, but it take more code and at least 2
+ * which, buy the way, it can do, but it takes more code and at least 2
* mpys).
* We also need to be aware that one second in nanoseconds is only a