From 37b499c9895c20da2511e1be238678d433fbaab5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Brueffer Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:35:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Some grammar/language improvements, more to come. Also note some merged items. --- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 45 +++++++++---------- .../en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 45 +++++++++---------- 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 3b13e5278222..50eef2757ec1 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -156,30 +156,29 @@ Kernel Changes - &man.acpi.4; now has basic support for HPET time counter. + &man.acpi.4; now has basic support for the HPET time counter. - &man.acpi.ibm.4; driver now supports for setting the fan control + The &man.acpi.ibm.4; driver now supports setting the fan control mode to manual or automatic, and adjusting the fan speed if the - fan control mode is manual. Note that manual control of the fan speed - needs to set a sysctl variable - dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan - to zero (manual) with extreme precaution. - This is because disabling automatic fan control might + fan control mode is manual. To enable manual control of the fan speed, + the sysctl variable dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan + needs to be set to zero (manual). This should only be used with + extreme precaution, as disabling automatic fan control might overheat the hardware and lead to permanent damage. - The &man.ddb.4; now supports show lock + The &man.ddb.4; debugger now provides the show lock command. If the argument has a valid lock class, this displays various information about the lock and calls a new function pointer in lock_class (lc_ddb_show) to dump class-specific information about the lock as well (such as the owner of a mutex or xlock'ed sx lock). - The &man.ddb.4; now supports show sleepq + The &man.ddb.4; debugger now provides the show sleepq command. This takes a wait channel as an argument and looks for a sleep queue associated with that wait channel. - A bug in file descriptor handling such that simple - close(0); dup(fd) does not return + A bug in file descriptor handling such that a simple + close(0); dup(fd) sequence does not return descriptor 0 in some cases, has been fixed. The &man.firmware.9; subsystem has been added. This allows @@ -204,9 +203,9 @@ The SIGCHLD signal queuing has been added. For each child process whose status has been changed, - a SIGCHLD instance is queued, if the signal is stilling pending, - and process changed status several times, signal information - is updated to reflect latest process status. + a SIGCHLD instance is queued. If the signal is still pending, + and the process changed status several times, the signal information + is updated to reflect the latest process status. There is a loader tunable kern.sigqueue.queue_sigchild which can control the behavior, setting it to zero disables the SIGCHLD queuing feature. @@ -224,20 +223,20 @@ A new sysctl variable kern.elf[32|64].can_exec_dyn has been removed. Instead the brandinfo - structure has been extended to be able to have + structure has been extended to be able to provide the BI_CAN_EXEC_DYN flag for all brands that usually allow executing ELF dynamic binaries. A new sysctl variable kern.forcesigexit has been added. This forces a process - to sigexit if a trap signal is being hold by current thread or - ignored by current process and is enabled by default. + to sigexit if a trap signal is being held by the current thread or + ignored by the current process and is enabled by default. - RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel's &man.malloc.9; - has been implemented. This detects both of buffer underflows and + RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel &man.malloc.9; + facility has been implemented. This detects both of buffer underflows and buffer overflows bugs at runtime on &man.free.9; and &man.realloc.9;, and prints backtraces from where memory was allocated and from where - it was freed. For more details, see &man.redzone.9; manual page. + it was freed. For more details, see the &man.redzone.9; manual page. A new sysctl variable security.mac.biba.interfaces_equal which makes all network interfaces be created with the label @@ -305,13 +304,13 @@ Hardware Support The &man.acpi.thermal.4; driver now supports - passive cooling. + passive cooling. &merged; The &man.cardbus.4; driver now supports /dev/cardbus%d.cis. The &man.ce.4; driver, which supports Cronyx Tau-PCI/32 adapters, - has been added. + has been added. &merged; Support for the PadLock Security Co-processor in VIA C3 processors has been added to the &man.crypto.9; subsystem. @@ -409,7 +408,7 @@ The &man.bce.4; driver, which supports Broadcom NetXtreme II (BCM5706/BCM5708) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers, - has been added. For more details, see &man.bce.4;. + has been added. For more details, see &man.bce.4;. &merged; The &man.bge.4; driver's Jumbo frame support is now MPSAFE. diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index 3b13e5278222..50eef2757ec1 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -156,30 +156,29 @@ Kernel Changes - &man.acpi.4; now has basic support for HPET time counter. + &man.acpi.4; now has basic support for the HPET time counter. - &man.acpi.ibm.4; driver now supports for setting the fan control + The &man.acpi.ibm.4; driver now supports setting the fan control mode to manual or automatic, and adjusting the fan speed if the - fan control mode is manual. Note that manual control of the fan speed - needs to set a sysctl variable - dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan - to zero (manual) with extreme precaution. - This is because disabling automatic fan control might + fan control mode is manual. To enable manual control of the fan speed, + the sysctl variable dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan + needs to be set to zero (manual). This should only be used with + extreme precaution, as disabling automatic fan control might overheat the hardware and lead to permanent damage. - The &man.ddb.4; now supports show lock + The &man.ddb.4; debugger now provides the show lock command. If the argument has a valid lock class, this displays various information about the lock and calls a new function pointer in lock_class (lc_ddb_show) to dump class-specific information about the lock as well (such as the owner of a mutex or xlock'ed sx lock). - The &man.ddb.4; now supports show sleepq + The &man.ddb.4; debugger now provides the show sleepq command. This takes a wait channel as an argument and looks for a sleep queue associated with that wait channel. - A bug in file descriptor handling such that simple - close(0); dup(fd) does not return + A bug in file descriptor handling such that a simple + close(0); dup(fd) sequence does not return descriptor 0 in some cases, has been fixed. The &man.firmware.9; subsystem has been added. This allows @@ -204,9 +203,9 @@ The SIGCHLD signal queuing has been added. For each child process whose status has been changed, - a SIGCHLD instance is queued, if the signal is stilling pending, - and process changed status several times, signal information - is updated to reflect latest process status. + a SIGCHLD instance is queued. If the signal is still pending, + and the process changed status several times, the signal information + is updated to reflect the latest process status. There is a loader tunable kern.sigqueue.queue_sigchild which can control the behavior, setting it to zero disables the SIGCHLD queuing feature. @@ -224,20 +223,20 @@ A new sysctl variable kern.elf[32|64].can_exec_dyn has been removed. Instead the brandinfo - structure has been extended to be able to have + structure has been extended to be able to provide the BI_CAN_EXEC_DYN flag for all brands that usually allow executing ELF dynamic binaries. A new sysctl variable kern.forcesigexit has been added. This forces a process - to sigexit if a trap signal is being hold by current thread or - ignored by current process and is enabled by default. + to sigexit if a trap signal is being held by the current thread or + ignored by the current process and is enabled by default. - RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel's &man.malloc.9; - has been implemented. This detects both of buffer underflows and + RedZone, a buffer corruption protection for kernel &man.malloc.9; + facility has been implemented. This detects both of buffer underflows and buffer overflows bugs at runtime on &man.free.9; and &man.realloc.9;, and prints backtraces from where memory was allocated and from where - it was freed. For more details, see &man.redzone.9; manual page. + it was freed. For more details, see the &man.redzone.9; manual page. A new sysctl variable security.mac.biba.interfaces_equal which makes all network interfaces be created with the label @@ -305,13 +304,13 @@ Hardware Support The &man.acpi.thermal.4; driver now supports - passive cooling. + passive cooling. &merged; The &man.cardbus.4; driver now supports /dev/cardbus%d.cis. The &man.ce.4; driver, which supports Cronyx Tau-PCI/32 adapters, - has been added. + has been added. &merged; Support for the PadLock Security Co-processor in VIA C3 processors has been added to the &man.crypto.9; subsystem. @@ -409,7 +408,7 @@ The &man.bce.4; driver, which supports Broadcom NetXtreme II (BCM5706/BCM5708) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers, - has been added. For more details, see &man.bce.4;. + has been added. For more details, see &man.bce.4;. &merged; The &man.bge.4; driver's Jumbo frame support is now MPSAFE.