[v2] Documentation: USB: correct possessive "its" usage

Commit Message

Randy Dunlap Nov. 18, 2022, 11:14 p.m. UTC

Correct uses of "it's" to possessive "its" or "its" to "it's" as needed.
Correct associated grammar in one location.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[e-mail]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[e-mail]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[e-mail]>
Cc: [e-mail]
---
v2: use "his" instead of "its" in CREDITS (Alan)
    Also correct one use of "its" to "it's".

 Documentation/usb/CREDITS          |    6 +++---
 Documentation/usb/functionfs.rst   |    2 +-
 Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.rst |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Comments

Jonathan Corbet Nov. 21, 2022, 9:33 p.m. UTC | #1

Randy Dunlap <[e-mail]> writes:

> Correct uses of "it's" to possessive "its" or "its" to "it's" as needed.
> Correct associated grammar in one location.
>
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[e-mail]>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[e-mail]>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[e-mail]>
> Cc: [e-mail]
> ---
> v2: use "his" instead of "its" in CREDITS (Alan)
>     Also correct one use of "its" to "it's".
>
>  Documentation/usb/CREDITS          |    6 +++---
>  Documentation/usb/functionfs.rst   |    2 +-
>  Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.rst |    2 +-
>  3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

jon

Patch

diff -- a/Documentation/usb/CREDITS b/Documentation/usb/CREDITS
--- a/Documentation/usb/CREDITS
+++ b/Documentation/usb/CREDITS
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ 
 Credits for the Simple Linux USB Driver:
 
 The following people have contributed to this code (in alphabetical
-order by last name).  I'm sure this list should be longer, its
+order by last name).  I'm sure this list should be longer, it's
 difficult to maintain, add yourself with a patch if desired.
 
   Georg Acher <[e-mail]>
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@  THANKS file in Inaky's driver):
         - Jochen Karrer <[e-mail]>, for
           pointing out mortal bugs and giving advice.
 
-        - Edmund Humemberger <[e-mail]>, for it's great work on
+        - Edmund Humemberger <[e-mail]>, for his great work on
           public relationships and general management stuff for the
           Linux-USB effort.
 
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@  THANKS file in Inaky's driver):
         - Ric Klaren <[e-mail]> for doing nice
           introductory documents (competing with Alberto's :).
 
-        - Christian Groessler <[e-mail]>, for it's help on those
+        - Christian Groessler <[e-mail]>, for his help on those
           itchy bits ... :)
 
         - Paul MacKerras for polishing OHCI and pushing me harder for
diff -- a/Documentation/usb/functionfs.rst b/Documentation/usb/functionfs.rst
--- a/Documentation/usb/functionfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/usb/functionfs.rst
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@  level it would look like this::
   $ ( cd /dev/ffs-hid && hid-daemon ) &
 
 On kernel level the gadget checks ffs_data->dev_name to identify
-whether it's FunctionFS designed for MTP ("mtp") or HID ("hid").
+whether its FunctionFS is designed for MTP ("mtp") or HID ("hid").
 
 If no "functions" module parameters is supplied, the driver accepts
 just one function with any name.
diff -- a/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.rst b/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.rst
--- a/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.rst
+++ b/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.rst
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@  The Multifunction Composite Gadget (or g
 that makes extensive use of the composite framework to provide
 a... multifunction gadget.
 
-In it's standard configuration it provides a single USB configuration
+In its standard configuration it provides a single USB configuration
 with RNDIS[1] (that is Ethernet), USB CDC[2] ACM (that is serial) and
 USB Mass Storage functions.