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[PATCH] Documentation: Fix some grammar mistakes in sync_file.txt

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There are two sentences in the Sync File documentation where the
english is a little off. This patch is an attempt to fix these.

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>

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 Documentation/sync_file.txt | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/sync_file.txt b/Documentation/sync_file.txt
index eaf8297dbca2..e8e2ebafe5fa 100644
--- a/Documentation/sync_file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sync_file.txt
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 
 This document serves as a guide for device drivers writers on what the
 sync_file API is, and how drivers can support it. Sync file is the carrier of
-the fences(struct fence) that needs to synchronized between drivers or across
-process boundaries.
+the fences(struct fence) that are needed to synchronize between drivers or
+across process boundaries.
 
 The sync_file API is meant to be used to send and receive fence information
 to/from userspace. It enables userspace to do explicit fencing, where instead
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ in-fences and out-fences
 Sync files can go either to or from userspace. When a sync_file is sent from
 the driver to userspace we call the fences it contains 'out-fences'. They are
 related to a buffer that the driver is processing or is going to process, so
-the driver an create out-fence to be able to notify, through fence_signal(),
+the driver creates an out-fence to be able to notify, through fence_signal(),
 when it has finished using (or processing) that buffer. Out-fences are fences
 that the driver creates.
 
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2.5.5

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[PATCH] Documentation: Fix some grammar mistakes in sync_file.txt Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> - 2016-05-14 08:30 +0200

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