diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/Kconfig
index 57f23b4..e316bd9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/Kconfig
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
              into the kernel and we can use the standard read[bwl]/write[bwl]
              macros. This is the preferred method due to speed but it
              limits the system to just 64MB of PCI memory. This can be 
-             problamatic if using video cards and other memory-heavy devices.
+             problematic if using video cards and other memory-heavy devices.
           
           2) If > 64MB of memory space is required, the IXP4xx can be 
 	     configured to use indirect registers to access PCI This allows 
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-lh7a40x/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-lh7a40x/Kconfig
index 147b019..6f4c6a1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-lh7a40x/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-lh7a40x/Kconfig
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 	help
 	  Say Y here if you are using the Sharp KEV7A400 development
 	  board.  This hardware is discontinued, so I'd be very
-	  suprised if you wanted this option.
+	  surprised if you wanted this option.
 
 config MACH_LPD7A400
 	bool "LPD7A400 Card Engine"
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/Kconfig
index 63965c7..9aa26b9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/Kconfig
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
 config MACH_S3C2413
 	bool
 	help
-	  Internal node for S3C2413 verison of SMDK2413, so that
+	  Internal node for S3C2413 version of SMDK2413, so that
 	  machine_is_s3c2413() will work when MACH_SMDK2413 is
 	  selected
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
index c0bfb82..b09a19f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@
 	select CPU_CP15_MPU
 	help
 	  ARM940T is a member of the ARM9TDMI family of general-
-	  purpose microprocessors with MPU and seperate 4KB
+	  purpose microprocessors with MPU and separate 4KB
 	  instruction and 4KB data cases, each with a 4-word line
 	  length.
 
diff --git a/arch/cris/arch-v10/Kconfig b/arch/cris/arch-v10/Kconfig
index 44eb1b9..c7ea9ef 100644
--- a/arch/cris/arch-v10/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/cris/arch-v10/Kconfig
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@
 	depends on ETRAX_ARCH_V10
 	default "95a6"
 	help
-	  Waitstates for SRAM, Flash and peripherials (not DRAM).  95f8 is a
+	  Waitstates for SRAM, Flash and peripherals (not DRAM).  95f8 is a
 	  good choice for most Axis products...
 
 config ETRAX_DEF_R_BUS_CONFIG
diff --git a/arch/cris/arch-v10/drivers/Kconfig b/arch/cris/arch-v10/drivers/Kconfig
index 734d5f3..e7e724bc 100644
--- a/arch/cris/arch-v10/drivers/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/cris/arch-v10/drivers/Kconfig
@@ -839,7 +839,7 @@
 	default "0"
 	help
 	  This controls the initial value of the trickle charge register.
-	  0 = disabled (use this if you are unsure or have a non rechargable battery)
+	  0 = disabled (use this if you are unsure or have a non rechargeable battery)
 	  Otherwise the following values can be OR:ed together to control the
 	  charge current:
 	  1 = 2kohm, 2 = 4kohm, 3 = 4kohm
diff --git a/arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/Kconfig b/arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/Kconfig
index a33097f..f64624f 100644
--- a/arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/Kconfig
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 	help
 	  Enables the DMA7 input channel for ser0 (ttyS0).
 	  If you do not enable DMA, an interrupt for each character will be
-	  used when receiveing data.
+	  used when receiving data.
 	  Normally you want to use DMA, unless you use the DMA channel for
 	  something else.
 
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
 	help
 	  Enables the DMA5 input channel for ser1 (ttyS1).
 	  If you do not enable DMA, an interrupt for each character will be
-	  used when receiveing data.
+	  used when receiving data.
 	  Normally you want this on, unless you use the DMA channel for
 	  something else.
 
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@
 	help
 	  Enables the DMA3 input channel for ser2 (ttyS2).
 	  If you do not enable DMA, an interrupt for each character will be
-	  used when receiveing data.
+	  used when receiving data.
 	  Normally you want to use DMA, unless you use the DMA channel for
 	  something else.
 
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@
 	help
 	  Enables the DMA9 input channel for ser3 (ttyS3).
 	  If you do not enable DMA, an interrupt for each character will be
-	  used when receiveing data.
+	  used when receiving data.
 	  Normally you want to use DMA, unless you use the DMA channel for
 	  something else.
 
diff --git a/arch/m68knommu/Kconfig b/arch/m68knommu/Kconfig
index 6d920d4..c1bc22c 100644
--- a/arch/m68knommu/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/m68knommu/Kconfig
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@
 	depends on ROM
 	help
 	  This is almost always the same as the base of the ROM. Since on all
-	  68000 type varients the vectors are at the base of the boot device
+	  68000 type variants the vectors are at the base of the boot device
 	  on system startup.
 
 config ROMVECSIZE
@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@
 	depends on ROM
 	help
 	  Define the size of the vector region in ROM. For most 68000
-	  varients this would be 0x400 bytes in size. Set to 0 if you do
+	  variants this would be 0x400 bytes in size. Set to 0 if you do
 	  not want a vector region at the start of the ROM.
 
 config ROMSTART
diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
index 1443024..22bb540 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -865,7 +865,7 @@
 	bool
 
 #
-# Endianess selection.  Suffiently obscure so many users don't know what to
+# Endianess selection.  Sufficiently obscure so many users don't know what to
 # answer,so we try hard to limit the available choices.  Also the use of a
 # choice statement should be more obvious to the user.
 #
@@ -874,7 +874,7 @@
 	help
 	  Some MIPS machines can be configured for either little or big endian
 	  byte order. These modes require different kernels and a different
-	  Linux distribution.  In general there is one prefered byteorder for a
+	  Linux distribution.  In general there is one preferred byteorder for a
 	  particular system but some systems are just as commonly used in the
 	  one or the other endianess.
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 0673dbe..116d7d3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@
 	default n
 	help
           This option enables support for the Maple 970FX Evaluation Board.
-	  For more informations, refer to <http://www.970eval.com>
+	  For more information, refer to <http://www.970eval.com>
 
 config PPC_PASEMI
 	depends on PPC_MULTIPLATFORM && PPC64
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/Kconfig
index 7edb6b4..edcd5b8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/Kconfig
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 	  Be aware that PCI buses can only function when SYS board is plugged
 	  into the PIB (Platform IO Board) board from Freescale which provide
 	  3 PCI slots.  The PIBs PCI initialization is the bootloader's
-	  responsiblilty.
+	  responsibility.
 
 config MPC834x_ITX
 	bool "Freescale MPC834x ITX"
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 	  This option enables support for the MPC 834x ITX evaluation board.
 
 	  Be aware that PCI initialization is the bootloader's
-	  responsiblilty.
+	  responsibility.
 
 config MPC8360E_PB
 	bool "Freescale MPC8360E PB"
diff --git a/arch/ppc/Kconfig b/arch/ppc/Kconfig
index 077711e..ef018e2 100644
--- a/arch/ppc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/ppc/Kconfig
@@ -724,7 +724,7 @@
 	  Be aware that PCI buses can only function when SYS board is plugged
 	  into the PIB (Platform IO Board) board from Freescale which provide
 	  3 PCI slots.  The PIBs PCI initialization is the bootloader's
-	  responsiblilty.
+	  responsibility.
 
 config EV64360
 	bool "Marvell-EV64360BP"
diff --git a/arch/sh/Kconfig b/arch/sh/Kconfig
index 6a461d4..bffc7e1 100644
--- a/arch/sh/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/sh/Kconfig
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
 	bool "SHMIN"
 	select CPU_SUBTYPE_SH7706
 	help
-	  Select SHMIN if configureing for the SHMIN board
+	  Select SHMIN if configuring for the SHMIN board.
 
 config SH_UNKNOWN
 	bool "BareCPU"
diff --git a/arch/sparc/Kconfig b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
index 2f96610..92a7c8a 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
@@ -212,8 +212,8 @@
 	tristate "Sun4m LED driver"
 	help
 	  This driver toggles the front-panel LED on sun4m systems
-	  in a user-specifyable manner.  It's state can be probed
-	  by reading /proc/led and it's blinking mode can be changed
+	  in a user-specifiable manner.  Its state can be probed
+	  by reading /proc/led and its blinking mode can be changed
 	  via writes to /proc/led
 
 source "fs/Kconfig.binfmt"
diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
index 2af12fc..ad8b537 100644
--- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
@@ -994,7 +994,7 @@
 	help
 	  If you say Y here, you will have a miscdevice named "/dev/hpet/".  Each
 	  open selects one of the timers supported by the HPET.  The timers are
-	  non-periodioc and/or periodic.
+	  non-periodic and/or periodic.
 
 config HPET_RTC_IRQ
 	bool "HPET Control RTC IRQ" if !HPET_EMULATE_RTC
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/Kconfig b/drivers/media/video/Kconfig
index bf26755..b8fde5c 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/media/video/Kconfig
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 	  decode audio/video standards. This option will autoselect
 	  all pertinent modules to each selected video module.
 
-	  Unselect this only if you know exaclty what you are doing, since
+	  Unselect this only if you know exactly what you are doing, since
 	  it may break support on some boards.
 
 	  In doubt, say Y.
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig
index 24747bd..d132ed5 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@
 	default "4"
 
 config MTD_SHARP_SL
-	bool "ROM maped on Sharp SL Series"
+	bool "ROM mapped on Sharp SL Series"
 	depends on MTD && ARCH_PXA
 	help
 	  This enables access to the flash chip on the Sharp SL Series of PDAs.
diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index 6e863aa..b6c70c5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 	tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support"
 	depends on NET_CLS_ACT
 	---help---
-	  This is an intermidiate driver that allows sharing of
+	  This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of
 	  resources.
 	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
 	  will be called ifb.  If you want to use more than one ifb
@@ -2136,7 +2136,7 @@
 	  This driver supports the original Yukon chipset. A cleaner driver is 
 	  also available (skge) which seems to work better than this one.
 
-	  This driver does not support the newer Yukon2 chipset. A seperate
+	  This driver does not support the newer Yukon2 chipset. A separate
 	  driver, sky2, is provided to support Yukon2-based adapters.
 
 	  The following adapters are supported by this driver:
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig b/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig
index b79ec0d..ecb61f8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@
 	depends on PHYLIB
 	---help---
 	  Adds the driver to PHY layer to cover the boards that do not have any PHY bound,
-	  but with the ability to manipulate with speed/link in software. The relavant MII
-	  speed/duplex parameters could be effectively handled in user-specified  fuction.
+	  but with the ability to manipulate the speed/link in software. The relevant MII
+	  speed/duplex parameters could be effectively handled in a user-specified function.
 	  Currently tested with mpc866ads.
 
 config FIXED_MII_10_FDX
diff --git a/drivers/pci/Kconfig b/drivers/pci/Kconfig
index 5f1b9f5..d0ba112 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/pci/Kconfig
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 	  smaller speedup on single processor machines.
 
 	  But it can also cause lots of bad things to happen.  A number
-	  of PCI drivers can not properly handle running in this way,
+	  of PCI drivers cannot properly handle running in this way,
 	  some will just not work properly at all, while others might
 	  decide to blow up power supplies with a huge load all at once,
 	  so use this option at your own risk.
diff --git a/drivers/spi/Kconfig b/drivers/spi/Kconfig
index 23334c8..d895a1a 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/spi/Kconfig
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 	  controller and a chipselect.  Most SPI slaves don't support
 	  dynamic device discovery; some are even write-only or read-only.
 
-	  SPI is widely used by microcontollers to talk with sensors,
+	  SPI is widely used by microcontrollers to talk with sensors,
 	  eeprom and flash memory, codecs and various other controller
 	  chips, analog to digital (and d-to-a) converters, and more.
 	  MMC and SD cards can be accessed using SPI protocol; and for
diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/host/Kconfig
index cf10cbc..cc60759 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/Kconfig
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
 	  adapter will *NOT* work with PC cards that do not contain an OHCI
 	  controller.
 
-	  For those PC cards that contain multiple OHCI controllers only ther
+	  For those PC cards that contain multiple OHCI controllers only the
 	  first one is used.
 
 	  The driver consists of two modules, the "ftdi-elan" module is a
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 7b1511d..8bec76b 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@
 	help
 	  The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's
 	  BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes
-	  on files and directories, and database-like indeces on selected
+	  on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected
 	  attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features
 	  available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports
 	  extremely large volumes and files.
diff --git a/sound/Kconfig b/sound/Kconfig
index e0d791a..95949b6 100644
--- a/sound/Kconfig
+++ b/sound/Kconfig
@@ -64,11 +64,11 @@
 
 source "sound/mips/Kconfig"
 
-# the following will depenend on the order of config.
+# the following will depend on the order of config.
 # here assuming USB is defined before ALSA
 source "sound/usb/Kconfig"
 
-# the following will depenend on the order of config.
+# the following will depend on the order of config.
 # here assuming PCMCIA is defined before ALSA
 source "sound/pcmcia/Kconfig"