10 files changed, 12 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-m68knommu/mcfmbus.h b/include/asm-m68knommu/mcfmbus.h
index 13df9d41bd1..319899c47a2 100644
--- a/include/asm-m68knommu/mcfmbus.h
+++ b/include/asm-m68knommu/mcfmbus.h
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 #define MCFMBUS_MFDR_MBC(a)	((a)&0x3F)	   /*M-Bus Clock*/
 
 /*
-*	Define bit flags in Controll Register
+*	Define bit flags in Control Register
 */
 
 #define MCFMBUS_MBCR_MEN           (0x80)  /* M-Bus Enable                 */
diff --git a/include/asm-parisc/dma.h b/include/asm-parisc/dma.h
index da2cf373e31..31ad0f05af3 100644
--- a/include/asm-parisc/dma.h
+++ b/include/asm-parisc/dma.h
@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@
 
 /*
 ** DMA_CHUNK_SIZE is used by the SCSI mid-layer to break up
-** (or rather not merge) DMA's into managable chunks.
+** (or rather not merge) DMAs into manageable chunks.
 ** On parisc, this is more of the software/tuning constraint
-** rather than the HW. I/O MMU allocation alogorithms can be
-** faster with smaller size is (to some degree).
+** rather than the HW. I/O MMU allocation algorithms can be
+** faster with smaller sizes (to some degree).
 */
 #define DMA_CHUNK_SIZE	(BITS_PER_LONG*PAGE_SIZE)
 
diff --git a/include/asm-parisc/pci.h b/include/asm-parisc/pci.h
index 7b8ad118d2f..7b3be9ac0dd 100644
--- a/include/asm-parisc/pci.h
+++ b/include/asm-parisc/pci.h
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ extern int parisc_bus_is_phys; 	/* in arch/parisc/kernel/setup.c */
 /*
 ** Most PCI devices (eg Tulip, NCR720) also export the same registers
 ** to both MMIO and I/O port space.  Due to poor performance of I/O Port
-** access under HP PCI bus adapters, strongly reccomend use of MMIO
+** access under HP PCI bus adapters, strongly recommend the use of MMIO
 ** address space.
 **
 ** While I'm at it more PA programming notes:
diff --git a/include/asm-parisc/ropes.h b/include/asm-parisc/ropes.h
index 5542dd00472..007a880615e 100644
--- a/include/asm-parisc/ropes.h
+++ b/include/asm-parisc/ropes.h
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 #endif
 
 /*
-** The number of pdir entries to "free" before issueing
+** The number of pdir entries to "free" before issuing
 ** a read to PCOM register to flush out PCOM writes.
 ** Interacts with allocation granularity (ie 4 or 8 entries
 ** allocated and free'd/purged at a time might make this
diff --git a/include/linux/ixjuser.h b/include/linux/ixjuser.h
index fd1756d3a47..88b45895746 100644
--- a/include/linux/ixjuser.h
+++ b/include/linux/ixjuser.h
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ typedef struct {
 * structures.  If the freq0 variable is non-zero, the tone table contents
 * for the tone_index are updated to the frequencies and gains defined.  It
 * should be noted that DTMF tones cannot be reassigned, so if DTMF tone
-* table indexs are used in a cadence the frequency and gain variables will
+* table indexes are used in a cadence the frequency and gain variables will
 * be ignored.
 *
 * If the array elements contain frequency parameters the driver will
diff --git a/include/linux/jiffies.h b/include/linux/jiffies.h
index c8d5f207c3d..0ec6e28bccd 100644
--- a/include/linux/jiffies.h
+++ b/include/linux/jiffies.h
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
 #define __jiffy_data  __attribute__((section(".data")))
 
 /*
- * The 64-bit value is not volatile - you MUST NOT read it
+ * The 64-bit value is not atomic - you MUST NOT read it
  * without sampling the sequence number in xtime_lock.
  * get_jiffies_64() will do this for you as appropriate.
  */
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index b9b5e4ba166..6738283ac38 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ struct user;
  * context (spinlock, irq-handler, ...).
  *
  * This is a useful debugging help to be able to catch problems early and not
- * be biten later when the calling function happens to sleep when it is not
+ * be bitten later when the calling function happens to sleep when it is not
  * supposed to.
  */
 #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
diff --git a/include/linux/mqueue.h b/include/linux/mqueue.h
index 8db9d75541a..8b5a79615fb 100644
--- a/include/linux/mqueue.h
+++ b/include/linux/mqueue.h
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@
 #ifndef _LINUX_MQUEUE_H
 #define _LINUX_MQUEUE_H
 
-#include <linux/types.h>
-
 #define MQ_PRIO_MAX 	32768
 /* per-uid limit of kernel memory used by mqueue, in bytes */
 #define MQ_BYTES_MAX	819200
diff --git a/include/linux/reiserfs_fs_sb.h b/include/linux/reiserfs_fs_sb.h
index 73e0becec08..62a7169aed8 100644
--- a/include/linux/reiserfs_fs_sb.h
+++ b/include/linux/reiserfs_fs_sb.h
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ enum reiserfs_mount_options {
 /* -o hash={tea, rupasov, r5, detect} is meant for properly mounting 
 ** reiserfs disks from 3.5.19 or earlier.  99% of the time, this option
 ** is not required.  If the normal autodection code can't determine which
-** hash to use (because both hases had the same value for a file)
+** hash to use (because both hashes had the same value for a file)
 ** use this option to force a specific hash.  It won't allow you to override
 ** the existing hash on the FS, so if you have a tea hash disk, and mount
 ** with -o hash=rupasov, the mount will fail.
diff --git a/include/linux/textsearch.h b/include/linux/textsearch.h
index 7dac8f04d28..004808a6df1 100644
--- a/include/linux/textsearch.h
+++ b/include/linux/textsearch.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ struct ts_config;
 /**
  * struct ts_state - search state
  * @offset: offset for next match
- * @cb: control buffer, for persistant variables of get_next_block()
+ * @cb: control buffer, for persistent variables of get_next_block()
  */
 struct ts_state
 {
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ struct ts_config
 	 * Called repeatedly until 0 is returned. Must assign the
 	 * head of the next block of data to &*dst and return the length
 	 * of the block or 0 if at the end. consumed == 0 indicates
-	 * a new search. May store/read persistant values in state->cb.
+	 * a new search. May store/read persistent values in state->cb.
 	 */
 	unsigned int		(*get_next_block)(unsigned int consumed,
 						  const u8 **dst,