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[PATCH 1/1] time: It seems spell mistake

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Sorry, English is not my native language. I don't known whether my
judgement is right or not. Personally, use "than" feels more comfortable.

Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
---
 kernel/time/clocksource.c | 2 +-
 kernel/time/hrtimer.c     | 2 +-
 kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
index 841b72f..174c594 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ static u32 clocksource_max_adjustment(struct clocksource *cs)
  * return half the number of nanoseconds the hardware counter can technically
  * cover. This is done so that we can potentially detect problems caused by
  * delayed timers or bad hardware, which might result in time intervals that
- * are larger then what the math used can handle without overflows.
+ * are larger than what the math used can handle without overflows.
  */
 u64 clocks_calc_max_nsecs(u32 mult, u32 shift, u32 maxadj, u64 mask, u64 *max_cyc)
 {
diff --git a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
index 5c7ae4b..66c1741 100644
--- a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 /*
  * The timer bases:
  *
- * There are more clockids then hrtimer bases. Thus, we index
+ * There are more clockids than hrtimer bases. Thus, we index
  * into the timer bases by the hrtimer_base_type enum. When trying
  * to reach a base using a clockid, hrtimer_clockid_to_base()
  * is used to convert from clockid to the proper hrtimer_base_type.
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index bca3667..1be2c65 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -1667,7 +1667,7 @@ static void timekeeping_adjust(struct timekeeper *tk, s64 offset)
 /**
  * accumulate_nsecs_to_secs - Accumulates nsecs into secs
  *
- * Helper function that accumulates a the nsecs greater then a second
+ * Helper function that accumulates a the nsecs greater than a second
  * from the xtime_nsec field to the xtime_secs field.
  * It also calls into the NTP code to handle leapsecond processing.
  *
@@ -1719,7 +1719,7 @@ static cycle_t logarithmic_accumulation(struct timekeeper *tk, cycle_t offset,
 	cycle_t interval = tk->cycle_interval << shift;
 	u64 raw_nsecs;

-	/* If the offset is smaller then a shifted interval, do nothing */
+	/* If the offset is smaller than a shifted interval, do nothing */
 	if (offset < interval)
 		return offset;

--
2.5.0


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[PATCH 1/1] time: It seems spell mistake Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> - 2015-08-25 08:50 +0200
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