diff --git a/arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/Kconfig b/arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/Kconfig
index f64624f..1d859c1 100644
--- a/arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/Kconfig
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@
         select HOTPLUG
         select PCCARD_NONSTATIC
         help
-	 Enabled the ETRAX Carbus driver.
+	 Enabled the ETRAX Cardbus driver.
 
 config PCI
        bool
diff --git a/arch/h8300/Kconfig.debug b/arch/h8300/Kconfig.debug
index e0e9bcb..554efe6 100644
--- a/arch/h8300/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/h8300/Kconfig.debug
@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@
 	bool "Message Output for GDB MagicPrint service"
 	depends on (H8300H_SIM || H8S_SIM)
 	help
-	  kernel messages output useing MagicPrint service from GDB
+	  kernel messages output using MagicPrint service from GDB
 
 config SYSCALL_PRINT
 	bool "SystemCall trace print"
 	help
-	  outout history of systemcall
+	  output history of systemcall
 
 config GDB_DEBUG
    	bool "Use gdb stub"
diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu
index dce6124..d7f6fb0 100644
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
 	bool "Core 2/newer Xeon"
 	help
 	  Select this for Intel Core 2 and newer Core 2 Xeons (Xeon 51xx and 53xx)
-	  CPUs. You can distingush newer from older Xeons by the CPU family
+	  CPUs. You can distinguish newer from older Xeons by the CPU family
 	  in /proc/cpuinfo. Newer ones have 6.
 
 config MPENTIUM4
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@
 	help
 	  Select this for an IDT Winchip-2A or 3.  Linux and GCC
 	  treat this chip as a 586TSC with some extended instructions
-	  and alignment reqirements.  Also enable out of order memory
+	  and alignment requirements.  Also enable out of order memory
 	  stores for this CPU, which can increase performance of some
 	  operations.
 
diff --git a/arch/ia64/Kconfig b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
index e23af4b..6e41471 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@
 	help
 	  kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your
 	  current kernel, and to start another kernel.  It is like a reboot
-	  but it is indepedent of the system firmware.   And like a reboot
+	  but it is independent of the system firmware.   And like a reboot
 	  you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux.
 
 	  The name comes from the similiarity to the exec system call.
diff --git a/arch/m68knommu/Kconfig.debug b/arch/m68knommu/Kconfig.debug
index 763c9aa..9ff47bd 100644
--- a/arch/m68knommu/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/m68knommu/Kconfig.debug
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 config FULLDEBUG
 	bool "Full Symbolic/Source Debugging support"
 	help
-	  Enable debuging symbols on kernel build.
+	  Enable debugging symbols on kernel build.
 
 config HIGHPROFILE
 	bool "Use fast second timer for profiling"
diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
index b7cb048..16ecea3 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -956,7 +956,7 @@
 	  byte order. These modes require different kernels and a different
 	  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.
+	  one or the other endianness.
 
 config CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
 	bool "Big endian"
@@ -1750,7 +1750,7 @@
 	bool
 	default y if SGI_IP27
 	help
-	  Say Y to upport efficient handling of discontiguous physical memory,
+	  Say Y to support efficient handling of discontiguous physical memory,
 	  for architectures which are either NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access)
 	  or have huge holes in the physical address space for other reasons.
 	  See <file:Documentation/vm/numa> for more.
@@ -1938,7 +1938,7 @@
 	help
 	  kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your
 	  current kernel, and to start another kernel.  It is like a reboot
-	  but it is indepedent of the system firmware.   And like a reboot
+	  but it is independent of the system firmware.   And like a reboot
 	  you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux.
 
 	  The name comes from the similiarity to the exec system call.
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug
index f70e795..346cd3b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 	depends on PPC_PSERIES && DEBUG_FS
 	help
 	  Adds code to keep track of the number of hypervisor calls made and
-	  the amount of time spent in hypervisor callsr.  Wall time spent in
+	  the amount of time spent in hypervisor calls.  Wall time spent in
 	  each call is always calculated, and if available CPU cycles spent
 	  are also calculated.  A directory named hcall_inst is added at the
 	  root of the debugfs filesystem.  Within the hcall_inst directory
diff --git a/arch/s390/crypto/Kconfig b/arch/s390/crypto/Kconfig
index 99ff9f0..d1defbb 100644
--- a/arch/s390/crypto/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/crypto/Kconfig
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 	default "m"
 	help
 	  Select this option if you want to use the s390 pseudo random number
-	  generator. The PRNG is part of the cryptograhic processor functions
+	  generator. The PRNG is part of the cryptographic processor functions
 	  and uses triple-DES to generate secure random numbers like the
 	  ANSI X9.17 standard. The PRNG is usable via the char device
 	  /dev/prandom.
diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig
index 620e14c..4ca0ab3 100644
--- a/crypto/Kconfig
+++ b/crypto/Kconfig
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@
 
 	  Keys are allowed to be from 0 to 256 bits in length, in steps
 	  of 8 bits.  Also includes the 'Tnepres' algorithm, a reversed
-	  variant of Serpent for compatibility with old kerneli code.
+	  variant of Serpent for compatibility with old kerneli.org code.
 
 	  See also:
 	  <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/serpent.html>
diff --git a/drivers/ata/Kconfig b/drivers/ata/Kconfig
index 45dbdc1..c721966 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/ata/Kconfig
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@
 	help
 	  This option enables DMA/PIO support for the later OPTi
 	  controllers found on some old motherboards and in some
-	  latops
+	  laptops.
 
 	  If unsure, say N.
 
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/Kconfig b/drivers/char/tpm/Kconfig
index fe00c7d..11089be 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/Kconfig
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 	tristate "National Semiconductor TPM Interface"
 	depends on TCG_TPM && PNPACPI
 	---help---
-	  If you have a TPM security chip from National Semicondutor 
+	  If you have a TPM security chip from National Semiconductor 
 	  say Yes and it will be accessible from within Linux.  To 
 	  compile this driver as a module, choose M here; the module 
 	  will be called tpm_nsc.
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/Kconfig b/drivers/crypto/Kconfig
index f21fe66..f4c6345 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/crypto/Kconfig
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 	default m
 	help
 	  Say 'Y' here to use the AMD Geode LX processor on-board AES
-	  engine for the CryptoAPI AES alogrithm.
+	  engine for the CryptoAPI AES algorithm.
 
 	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
 	  will be called geode-aes.
diff --git a/drivers/macintosh/Kconfig b/drivers/macintosh/Kconfig
index a32c91e..58926da 100644
--- a/drivers/macintosh/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/macintosh/Kconfig
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@
 	tristate "Support for Apple XServe front panel LEDs"
 	depends on PPC_PMAC
 	help
-	  This driver procides some support to control the front panel
+	  This driver provides some support to control the front panel
           blue LEDs "vu-meter" of the XServer macs.
 
 endif # MACINTOSH_DRIVERS
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
index 5e43983..76422ed 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
 	bool "RTC UIE emulation on dev interface"
 	depends on RTC_INTF_DEV
 	help
-	  Provides an emulation for RTC_UIE if the underlaying rtc chip
+	  Provides an emulation for RTC_UIE if the underlying rtc chip
 	  driver does not expose RTC_UIE ioctls.  Those requests generate
 	  once-per-second update interrupts, used for synchronization.
 
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/serial/Kconfig
index ba5d1dc..3efe670 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/Kconfig
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@
 	tristate "USB Debugging Device"
 	depends on USB_SERIAL
 	help
-	  Say Y here if you have a USB debugging device used to recieve
+	  Say Y here if you have a USB debugging device used to receive
 	  debugging data from another machine.  The most common of these
 	  devices is the NetChip TurboCONNECT device.
 
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index d0edf42..f342700 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@
 	  releases.
 
 	  If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
-	  that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class heirachy, in
+	  that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in
 	  order to support older versions of udev.
 
 	  If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later,
diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
index 0b46a5d..c64ce9c 100644
--- a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
+++ b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 	  "explicit preemption points" to the kernel code. These new
 	  preemption points have been selected to reduce the maximum
 	  latency of rescheduling, providing faster application reactions,
-	  at the cost of slighly lower throughput.
+	  at the cost of slightly lower throughput.
 
 	  This allows reaction to interactive events by allowing a
 	  low priority process to voluntarily preempt itself even if it
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 	  even if it is in kernel mode executing a system call and would
 	  otherwise not be about to reach a natural preemption point.
 	  This allows applications to run more 'smoothly' even when the
-	  system is under load, at the cost of slighly lower throughput
+	  system is under load, at the cost of slightly lower throughput
 	  and a slight runtime overhead to kernel code.
 
 	  Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop or
diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
index e62aee0..c68196c 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig
+++ b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
 	tristate "MULTIPATH: round robin algorithm"
 	depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
 	help
-	  Mulitpath routes are chosen according to Round Robin
+	  Multipath routes are chosen according to Round Robin
 
 config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_RANDOM
 	tristate "MULTIPATH: random algorithm"
@@ -651,7 +651,7 @@
 	select CRYPTO
 	select CRYPTO_MD5
 	---help---
-	  RFC2385 specifices a method of giving MD5 protection to TCP sessions.
+	  RFC2385 specifies a method of giving MD5 protection to TCP sessions.
 	  Its main (only?) use is to protect BGP sessions between core routers
 	  on the Internet.
 
diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/Kconfig b/net/ipv6/netfilter/Kconfig
index bbe99f8..838b8dd 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/Kconfig
+++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/Kconfig
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 	  packets which enables users to receive the filtered packets
 	  with QUEUE target using libipq.
 
-	  THis option enables the old IPv6-only "ip6_queue" implementation
+	  This option enables the old IPv6-only "ip6_queue" implementation
 	  which has been obsoleted by the new "nfnetlink_queue" code (see
 	  CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK_QUEUE).
 
diff --git a/net/netfilter/Kconfig b/net/netfilter/Kconfig
index ea6211c..a567dae 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/Kconfig
+++ b/net/netfilter/Kconfig
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@
 
 	  Please note that not all PPTP modes of operation are supported yet.
 	  Specifically these limitations exist:
-	    - Blindy assumes that control connections are always established
+	    - Blindly assumes that control connections are always established
 	      in PNS->PAC direction. This is a violation of RFC2637.
 	    - Only supports a single call within each session
 
diff --git a/security/selinux/Kconfig b/security/selinux/Kconfig
index 23b5104..b32a459 100644
--- a/security/selinux/Kconfig
+++ b/security/selinux/Kconfig
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
 
 	  Examples:
 	  For the Fedora Core 3 or 4 Linux distributions, enable this option
-	  and set the value via the next option. For Fedore Core 5 and later,
+	  and set the value via the next option. For Fedora Core 5 and later,
 	  do not enable this option.
 
 	  If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.