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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
index 8d4cf78258e..4fc8e987432 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ network interface card supports some sort of interrupt load mitigation or
+ How to use CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP
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-From the user standpoint, you should use the higher level libpcap library, wich
+From the user standpoint, you should use the higher level libpcap library, which
is a de facto standard, portable across nearly all operating systems
including Win32.
@@ -217,8 +217,8 @@ called pg_vec, its size limits the number of blocks that can be allocated.
kmalloc allocates any number of bytes of phisically contiguous memory from
a pool of pre-determined sizes. This pool of memory is mantained by the slab
-allocator wich is at the end the responsible for doing the allocation and
-hence wich imposes the maximum memory that kmalloc can allocate.
+allocator which is at the end the responsible for doing the allocation and
+hence which imposes the maximum memory that kmalloc can allocate.
In a 2.4/2.6 kernel and the i386 architecture, the limit is 131072 bytes. The
predetermined sizes that kmalloc uses can be checked in the "size-<bytes>"
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ and, the number of frames be
<block number> * <block size> / <frame size>
-Suposse the following parameters, wich apply for 2.6 kernel and an
+Suposse the following parameters, which apply for 2.6 kernel and an
i386 architecture:
<size-max> = 131072 bytes
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ TP_STATUS_LOSING : indicates there were packet drops from last time
statistics where checked with getsockopt() and
the PACKET_STATISTICS option.
-TP_STATUS_CSUMNOTREADY: currently it's used for outgoing IP packets wich
+TP_STATUS_CSUMNOTREADY: currently it's used for outgoing IP packets which
it's checksum will be done in hardware. So while
reading the packet we should not try to check the
checksum.