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