documentation/kernel-manual/kernel-how-to.xml: general edits

Some general edits up to section 3.4.

(From yocto-docs rev: 5bcd22b6372017c4f78b18035193879890ed8244)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/kernel-manual/kernel-how-to.xml b/documentation/kernel-manual/kernel-how-to.xml
index 756758d8a3..125212b986 100644
--- a/documentation/kernel-manual/kernel-how-to.xml
+++ b/documentation/kernel-manual/kernel-how-to.xml
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
     <title>Introduction</title>
     <para>
         This chapter describes how to accomplish tasks involving the kernel's tree structure. 
-        This information is designed to help the developer that wants to modify the Yocto Project kernel
-        and contribute changes upstream to the Yocto Project.
+        The information is designed to help the developer that wants to modify the Yocto 
+        Project kernel and contribute changes upstream to the Yocto Project.
         The information covers the following:
         <itemizedlist> 
             <listitem><para>Tree construction</para></listitem>
@@ -24,10 +24,11 @@
     <section id='tree-construction'>
         <title>Tree Construction</title>
         <para>
-            This section describes construction of the Yocto Project kernel repositories as accomplished
-            by the Yocto Project team to create kernel repositories, which are found at
-            <ulink url='http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi'>http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi</ulink>,
-            that can be shipped as part of a Yocto Project release. 
+            This section describes construction of the Yocto Project kernel repositories 
+            as accomplished by the Yocto Project team to create kernel repositories.
+            These kernel repositories are found at
+            <ulink url='http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi'>http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi</ulink>
+            and can be shipped as part of a Yocto Project release. 
             The team creates these repositories by
             compiling and executing the set of feature descriptions for every BSP/feature
             in the product. 
@@ -129,7 +130,8 @@
                 <ulink url='http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi'>http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi</ulink>
                 is the combination of all supported boards and configurations.</para>
                 <para>The technique the Yocto Project team uses is flexible and allows for seamless 
-                blending of an immutable history with additional deployment specific patches. 
+                blending of an immutable history with additional patches specific to a 
+                deployment. 
                 Any additions to the kernel become an integrated part of the branches.</para>
             </note>
         </para>
@@ -263,9 +265,9 @@
 
                 <para>
                     Following are a few examples that show how to use Git to examine changes.
-                    Note that because the Yocto Project Git repository does not break existing Git
+                    Because the Yocto Project Git repository does not break existing Git
                     functionality and because there exists many permutations of these types of 
-                    commands there are many more methods to discover changes.
+                    commands, there are many more methods to discover changes.
                     <note>
                         Unless you provide a commit range 
                         (&lt;kernel-type&gt;..&lt;bsp&gt;-&lt;kernel-type&gt;), <filename>kernel.org</filename> history