[PATCH 19.11 v1 1/2] fix PMD wording

[Sean Morrissey <sean.morrissey@intel.com>]

[ upstream commit f8dbaebbf1c9efcbb2e2354b341ed62175466a57 ]

Removing the use of driver following PMD as its unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Sean Morrissey <sean.morrissey@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Conor Fogarty <conor.fogarty@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Conor Walsh <conor.walsh@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
---
 app/test-pmd/cmdline.c                              | 4 ++--
 doc/guides/bbdevs/turbo_sw.rst                      | 2 +-
 doc/guides/cryptodevs/virtio.rst                    | 2 +-
 doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_sample_apps.rst          | 2 +-
 doc/guides/nics/af_packet.rst                       | 2 +-
 doc/guides/nics/af_xdp.rst                          | 2 +-
 doc/guides/nics/avp.rst                             | 4 ++--
 doc/guides/nics/fm10k.rst                           | 4 ++--
 doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst                        | 2 +-
 doc/guides/nics/netvsc.rst                          | 2 +-
 doc/guides/nics/nfp.rst                             | 2 +-
 doc/guides/nics/thunderx.rst                        | 2 +-
 doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst                          | 4 ++--
 doc/guides/prog_guide/writing_efficient_code.rst    | 4 ++--
 doc/guides/rel_notes/known_issues.rst               | 2 +-
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst              | 2 +-
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst              | 6 +++---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst              | 2 +-
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst                | 4 ++--
 doc/guides/sample_app_ug/bbdev_app.rst              | 2 +-
 doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l3_forward_access_ctrl.rst | 2 +-
 doc/guides/tools/testeventdev.rst                   | 2 +-
 drivers/compress/qat/qat_comp_pmd.h                 | 2 +-
 drivers/crypto/qat/qat_asym_pmd.h                   | 2 +-
 drivers/crypto/qat/qat_sym_pmd.h                    | 2 +-
 drivers/net/fm10k/fm10k_ethdev.c                    | 2 +-
 drivers/net/hinic/base/hinic_pmd_cmdq.h             | 2 +-
 drivers/net/hns3/hns3_ethdev_vf.c                   | 6 +++---
 drivers/net/hns3/hns3_rss.c                         | 4 ++--
 drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c                      | 2 +-
 drivers/raw/ifpga/base/README                       | 2 +-
 31 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c b/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c
index 2556ebfb0..1e44a998f 100644
--- a/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c
+++ b/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c
@@ -2648,7 +2648,7 @@ cmd_config_rxtx_queue_parsed(void *parsed_result,
 		ret = rte_eth_dev_tx_queue_stop(res->portid, res->qid);
 
 	if (ret == -ENOTSUP)
-		printf("Function not supported in PMD driver\n");
+		printf("Function not supported in PMD\n");
 }
 
 cmdline_parse_token_string_t cmd_config_rxtx_queue_port =
@@ -16765,7 +16765,7 @@ cmd_ddp_info_parsed(
 		free(proto);
 #endif
 	if (ret == -ENOTSUP)
-		printf("Function not supported in PMD driver\n");
+		printf("Function not supported in PMD\n");
 	close_file(pkg);
 }
 
diff --git a/doc/guides/bbdevs/turbo_sw.rst b/doc/guides/bbdevs/turbo_sw.rst
index 20620c2e2..c74be1286 100644
--- a/doc/guides/bbdevs/turbo_sw.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/bbdevs/turbo_sw.rst
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ Example:
   the SDK libraries as mentioned above.
   For AVX2 machine it is possible to only enable CONFIG_RTE_BBDEV_SDK_AVX2
   for limited 4G functionality.
-  If no flag are set the PMD driver will still build but its capabilities
+  If no flag are set the PMD will still build but its capabilities
   will be limited accordingly.
 
 To use the PMD in an application, user must:
diff --git a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/virtio.rst b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/virtio.rst
index 18bea6227..d5c218cef 100644
--- a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/virtio.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/virtio.rst
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ number of the virtio-crypto device:
     echo -n 0000:00:04.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/virtio-pci/unbind
     echo "1af4 1054" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/uio_pci_generic/new_id
 
-Finally the front-end virtio crypto PMD driver can be installed:
+Finally the front-end virtio crypto PMD can be installed:
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_sample_apps.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_sample_apps.rst
index 8d2740b5f..8b9dc52a6 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_sample_apps.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_sample_apps.rst
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ The EAL options are as follows:
 
 * ``-d``:
   Add a driver or driver directory to be loaded.
-  The application should use this option to load the pmd drivers
+  The application should use this option to load the PMDs
   that are built as shared libraries.
 
 * ``-m MB``:
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/af_packet.rst b/doc/guides/nics/af_packet.rst
index efd6f1ca7..cf098fcaa 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/af_packet.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/af_packet.rst
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ AF_PACKET Poll Mode Driver
 ==========================
 
 The AF_PACKET socket in Linux allows an application to receive and send raw
-packets. This Linux-specific PMD driver binds to an AF_PACKET socket and allows
+packets. This Linux-specific PMD binds to an AF_PACKET socket and allows
 a DPDK application to send and receive raw packets through the Kernel.
 
 In order to improve Rx and Tx performance this implementation makes use of
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/af_xdp.rst b/doc/guides/nics/af_xdp.rst
index b434b25df..515f768ff 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/af_xdp.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/af_xdp.rst
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ For the full details behind AF_XDP socket, you can refer to
 `AF_XDP documentation in the Kernel
 <https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst>`_.
 
-This Linux-specific PMD driver creates the AF_XDP socket and binds it to a
+This Linux-specific PMD creates the AF_XDP socket and binds it to a
 specific netdev queue, it allows a DPDK application to send and receive raw
 packets through the socket which would bypass the kernel network stack.
 Current implementation only supports single queue, multi-queues feature will
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/avp.rst b/doc/guides/nics/avp.rst
index 1a194fc23..a749f2a0f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/avp.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/avp.rst
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ to another with minimal packet loss.
 Features and Limitations of the AVP PMD
 ---------------------------------------
 
-The AVP PMD driver provides the following functionality.
+The AVP PMD provides the following functionality.
 
 *   Receive and transmit of both simple and chained mbuf packets,
 
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Launching a VM with an AVP type network attachment
 The following example will launch a VM with three network attachments.  The
 first attachment will have a default vif-model of "virtio".  The next two
 network attachments will have a vif-model of "avp" and may be used with a DPDK
-application which is built to include the AVP PMD driver.
+application which is built to include the AVP PMD.
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/fm10k.rst b/doc/guides/nics/fm10k.rst
index 4e178c2cc..2f03d2249 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/fm10k.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/fm10k.rst
@@ -118,9 +118,9 @@ Switch manager
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 The Intel FM10000 family of NICs integrate a hardware switch and multiple host
-interfaces. The FM10000 PMD driver only manages host interfaces. For the
+interfaces. The FM10000 PMD only manages host interfaces. For the
 switch component another switch driver has to be loaded prior to the
-FM10000 PMD driver. The switch driver can be acquired from Intel support.
+FM10000 PMD. The switch driver can be acquired from Intel support.
 Only Testpoint is validated with DPDK, the latest version that has been
 validated with DPDK is 4.1.6.
 
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst
index ade515259..9de7e2b44 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ Fast Host-based Packet Processing
 
 Software Defined Network (SDN) trends are demanding fast host-based packet handling.
 In a virtualization environment,
-the DPDK VF PMD driver performs the same throughput result as a non-VT native environment.
+the DPDK VF PMD performs the same throughput result as a non-VT native environment.
 
 With such host instance fast packet processing, lots of services such as filtering, QoS,
 DPI can be offloaded on the host fast path.
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/netvsc.rst b/doc/guides/nics/netvsc.rst
index 09cb6dbb9..a6b0d597e 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/netvsc.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/netvsc.rst
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ checksum and segmentation offloads.
 Features and Limitations of Hyper-V PMD
 ---------------------------------------
 
-In this release, the hyper PMD driver provides the basic functionality of packet reception and transmission.
+In this release, the hyper PMD provides the basic functionality of packet reception and transmission.
 
 *   It supports merge-able buffers per packet when receiving packets and scattered buffer per packet
     when transmitting packets. The packet size supported is from 64 to 65536.
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/nfp.rst b/doc/guides/nics/nfp.rst
index 7d8ed38bc..ef88740c5 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/nfp.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/nfp.rst
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ This document explains how to use DPDK with the Netronome Poll Mode
 Driver (PMD) supporting Netronome's Network Flow Processor 6xxx
 (NFP-6xxx) and Netronome's Flow Processor 4xxx (NFP-4xxx).
 
-NFP is a SRIOV capable device and the PMD driver supports the physical
+NFP is a SRIOV capable device and the PMD supports the physical
 function (PF) and the virtual functions (VFs).
 
 Dependencies
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/thunderx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/thunderx.rst
index 3b75a9a9a..1f6ee1ff0 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/thunderx.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/thunderx.rst
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ Each port consists of a primary VF and n secondary VF(s). Each VF provides 8 Tx/
 When a given port is configured to use more than 8 queues, it requires one (or more) secondary VF.
 Each secondary VF adds 8 additional queues to the queue set.
 
-During PMD driver initialization, the primary VF's are enumerated by checking the
+During PMD initialization, the primary VF's are enumerated by checking the
 specific flag (see sqs message in DPDK boot log - sqs indicates secondary queue set).
 They are at the beginning of VF list (the remain ones are secondary VF's).
 
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst b/doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst
index 2b1a3a693..3059bb8fb 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ With this enhancement, virtio could achieve quite promising performance.
 For basic qemu-KVM installation and other Intel EM poll mode driver in guest VM,
 please refer to Chapter "Driver for VM Emulated Devices".
 
-In this chapter, we will demonstrate usage of virtio PMD driver with two backends,
+In this chapter, we will demonstrate usage of virtio PMD with two backends,
 standard qemu vhost back end and vhost kni back end.
 
 Virtio Implementation in DPDK
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ end if necessary.
 Features and Limitations of virtio PMD
 --------------------------------------
 
-In this release, the virtio PMD driver provides the basic functionality of packet reception and transmission.
+In this release, the virtio PMD provides the basic functionality of packet reception and transmission.
 
 *   It supports merge-able buffers per packet when receiving packets and scattered buffer per packet
     when transmitting packets. The packet size supported is from 64 to 1518.
diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/writing_efficient_code.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/writing_efficient_code.rst
index 88e6bde04..0a2ce3275 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/writing_efficient_code.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/writing_efficient_code.rst
@@ -119,8 +119,8 @@ The code algorithm that dequeues messages may be something similar to the follow
         my_process_bulk(obj_table, count);
    }
 
-PMD Driver
-----------
+PMD
+---
 
 The DPDK Poll Mode Driver (PMD) is also able to work in bulk/burst mode,
 allowing the factorization of some code for each call in the send or receive function.
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/known_issues.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/known_issues.rst
index 21a4764a8..0eee6c0e9 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/known_issues.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/known_issues.rst
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ PMD does not work with --no-huge EAL command line parameter
 
 **Description**:
    Currently, the DPDK does not store any information about memory allocated by ``malloc()` (for example, NUMA node,
-   physical address), hence PMD drivers do not work when the ``--no-huge`` command line parameter is supplied to EAL.
+   physical address), hence PMDs do not work when the ``--no-huge`` command line parameter is supplied to EAL.
 
 **Implication**:
    Sending and receiving data with PMD will not work.
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
index e9f1e6ff6..7e7fcd0ac 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ New Features
 
 * **Enabled Virtio 1.0 support.**
 
-  Enabled Virtio 1.0 support for Virtio pmd driver.
+  Enabled Virtio 1.0 support for Virtio PMD.
 
 * **Supported Virtio for ARM.**
 
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
index b4c6972e3..52829bdb0 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
@@ -93,13 +93,13 @@ New Features
   Updated the KNI kernel module to set the ``max_mtu`` according to the given
   initial MTU size. Without it, the maximum MTU was 1500.
 
-  Updated the KNI PMD driver to set the ``mbuf_size`` and MTU based on
+  Updated the KNI PMD to set the ``mbuf_size`` and MTU based on
   the given mb-pool. This provide the ability to pass jumbo frames
   if the mb-pool contains a suitable buffer size.
 
 * **Added the AF_XDP PMD.**
 
-  Added a Linux-specific PMD driver for AF_XDP. This PMD can create an AF_XDP socket
+  Added a Linux-specific PMD for AF_XDP. This PMD can create an AF_XDP socket
   and bind it to a specific netdev queue. It allows a DPDK application to send
   and receive raw packets through the socket which would bypass the kernel
   network stack to achieve high performance packet processing.
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ ABI Changes
 
   The ``rte_eth_dev_info`` structure has had two extra fields
   added: ``min_mtu`` and ``max_mtu``. Each of these are of type ``uint16_t``.
-  The values of these fields can be set specifically by the PMD drivers as
+  The values of these fields can be set specifically by the PMDs as
   supported values can vary from device to device.
 
 * cryptodev: in 18.08 a new structure ``rte_crypto_asym_op`` was introduced and
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
index 63108ddaa..f6d02a6b8 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ New Features
 
 * **Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.**
 
-  Added a new PMD driver for hardware crypto offload block on ``OCTEON TX2``
+  Added a new PMD for hardware crypto offload block on ``OCTEON TX2``
   SoC.
 
   See :doc:`../cryptodevs/octeontx2` for more details
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst
index 8273473ff..029b758e9 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ New Features
 * **Introduce ARMv7 and ARMv8 architectures.**
 
   * It is now possible to build DPDK for the ARMv7 and ARMv8 platforms.
-  * ARMv7 can be tested with virtual PMD drivers.
-  * ARMv8 can be tested with virtual and physical PMD drivers.
+  * ARMv7 can be tested with virtual PMDs.
+  * ARMv8 can be tested with virtual and physical PMDs.
 
 * **Enabled freeing of ring.**
 
diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/bbdev_app.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/bbdev_app.rst
index 405e706a4..e5c055d05 100644
--- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/bbdev_app.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/bbdev_app.rst
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Limitations
 Compiling the Application
 -------------------------
 
-#. DPDK needs to be built with ``baseband_turbo_sw`` PMD driver enabled along
+#. DPDK needs to be built with ``baseband_turbo_sw`` PMD enabled along
    with ``FLEXRAN SDK`` Libraries. Refer to *SW Turbo Poll Mode Driver*
    documentation for more details on this.
 
diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l3_forward_access_ctrl.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l3_forward_access_ctrl.rst
index 4e58c6c61..c17e3f3af 100644
--- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l3_forward_access_ctrl.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l3_forward_access_ctrl.rst
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ Once the application starts, it transitions through three phases:
 
 *   **Final Phase** - Perform the following tasks:
 
-    Calls the EAL, PMD driver and ACL library to free resource, then quits.
+    Calls the EAL, PMD and ACL library to free resource, then quits.
 
 Compiling the Application
 -------------------------
diff --git a/doc/guides/tools/testeventdev.rst b/doc/guides/tools/testeventdev.rst
index 2ed67a634..1e6787940 100644
--- a/doc/guides/tools/testeventdev.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/tools/testeventdev.rst
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ to the ordered queue. The worker receives the events from ordered queue and
 forwards to atomic queue. Since the events from an ordered queue can be
 processed in parallel on the different workers, the ingress order of events
 might have changed on the downstream atomic queue enqueue. On enqueue to the
-atomic queue, the eventdev PMD driver reorders the event to the original
+atomic queue, the eventdev PMD reorders the event to the original
 ingress order(i.e producer ingress order).
 
 When the event is dequeued from the atomic queue by the worker, this test
diff --git a/drivers/compress/qat/qat_comp_pmd.h b/drivers/compress/qat/qat_comp_pmd.h
index ed2712060..2325df23b 100644
--- a/drivers/compress/qat/qat_comp_pmd.h
+++ b/drivers/compress/qat/qat_comp_pmd.h
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 #include "qat_device.h"
 
-/**< Intel(R) QAT Compression PMD driver name */
+/**< Intel(R) QAT Compression PMD name */
 #define COMPRESSDEV_NAME_QAT_PMD	compress_qat
 
 /** private data structure for a QAT compression device.
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_asym_pmd.h b/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_asym_pmd.h
index 3b5abddec..f6770bc4f 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_asym_pmd.h
+++ b/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_asym_pmd.h
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #include <rte_cryptodev.h>
 #include "qat_device.h"
 
-/** Intel(R) QAT Asymmetric Crypto PMD driver name */
+/** Intel(R) QAT Asymmetric Crypto PMD name */
 #define CRYPTODEV_NAME_QAT_ASYM_PMD	crypto_qat_asym
 
 
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_sym_pmd.h b/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_sym_pmd.h
index e2ed112cb..2fb0c998d 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_sym_pmd.h
+++ b/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_sym_pmd.h
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 #include "qat_sym_capabilities.h"
 #include "qat_device.h"
 
-/** Intel(R) QAT Symmetric Crypto PMD driver name */
+/** Intel(R) QAT Symmetric Crypto PMD name */
 #define CRYPTODEV_NAME_QAT_SYM_PMD	crypto_qat
 
 /* Internal capabilities */
diff --git a/drivers/net/fm10k/fm10k_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/fm10k/fm10k_ethdev.c
index 25284ab45..d2d8fd268 100644
--- a/drivers/net/fm10k/fm10k_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/fm10k/fm10k_ethdev.c
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ rx_queue_clean(struct fm10k_rx_queue *q)
 	for (i = 0; i < q->nb_fake_desc; ++i)
 		q->hw_ring[q->nb_desc + i] = zero;
 
-	/* vPMD driver has a different way of releasing mbufs. */
+	/* vPMD has a different way of releasing mbufs. */
 	if (q->rx_using_sse) {
 		fm10k_rx_queue_release_mbufs_vec(q);
 		return;
diff --git a/drivers/net/hinic/base/hinic_pmd_cmdq.h b/drivers/net/hinic/base/hinic_pmd_cmdq.h
index 4ce0a4c5b..c20a2f2ac 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hinic/base/hinic_pmd_cmdq.h
+++ b/drivers/net/hinic/base/hinic_pmd_cmdq.h
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 #define HINIC_SCMD_DATA_LEN		16
 
-/* hiovs pmd use 64, kernel l2nic use 4096 */
+/* hiovs PMD use 64, kernel l2nic use 4096 */
 #define	HINIC_CMDQ_DEPTH		64
 
 #define	HINIC_CMDQ_BUF_SIZE		2048U
diff --git a/drivers/net/hns3/hns3_ethdev_vf.c b/drivers/net/hns3/hns3_ethdev_vf.c
index e63704429..790e76a0d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hns3/hns3_ethdev_vf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hns3/hns3_ethdev_vf.c
@@ -795,9 +795,9 @@ hns3vf_dev_mtu_set(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, uint16_t mtu)
 	/*
 	 * The hns3 PF/VF devices on the same port share the hardware MTU
 	 * configuration. Currently, we send mailbox to inform hns3 PF kernel
-	 * ethdev driver to finish hardware MTU configuration in hns3 VF PMD
-	 * driver, there is no need to stop the port for hns3 VF device, and the
-	 * MTU value issued by hns3 VF PMD driver must be less than or equal to
+	 * ethdev driver to finish hardware MTU configuration in hns3 VF PMD,
+	 * there is no need to stop the port for hns3 VF device, and the
+	 * MTU value issued by hns3 VF PMD must be less than or equal to
 	 * PF's MTU.
 	 */
 	if (rte_atomic16_read(&hw->reset.resetting)) {
diff --git a/drivers/net/hns3/hns3_rss.c b/drivers/net/hns3/hns3_rss.c
index 21ed875f2..a5ce7f956 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hns3/hns3_rss.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hns3/hns3_rss.c
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ hns3_set_default_rss_args(struct hns3_hw *hw)
 }
 
 /*
- * RSS initialization for hns3 pmd driver.
+ * RSS initialization for hns3 PMD.
  */
 int
 hns3_config_rss(struct hns3_adapter *hns)
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ hns3_config_rss(struct hns3_adapter *hns)
 }
 
 /*
- * RSS uninitialization for hns3 pmd driver.
+ * RSS uninitialization for hns3 PMD.
  */
 void
 hns3_rss_uninit(struct hns3_adapter *hns)
diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
index 8388073d2..f0231881d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
@@ -1888,7 +1888,7 @@ i40e_dev_configure(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 	/* VMDQ setup.
 	 *  Needs to move VMDQ setting out of i40e_pf_config_mq_rx() as VMDQ and
 	 *  RSS setting have different requirements.
-	 *  General PMD driver call sequence are NIC init, configure,
+	 *  General PMD call sequence are NIC init, configure,
 	 *  rx/tx_queue_setup and dev_start. In rx/tx_queue_setup() function, it
 	 *  will try to lookup the VSI that specific queue belongs to if VMDQ
 	 *  applicable. So, VMDQ setting has to be done before
diff --git a/drivers/raw/ifpga/base/README b/drivers/raw/ifpga/base/README
index 6b2b171b0..55d92d590 100644
--- a/drivers/raw/ifpga/base/README
+++ b/drivers/raw/ifpga/base/README
@@ -42,5 +42,5 @@ Some features added in this version:
 3. Add altera SPI master driver and Intel MAX10 device driver.
 4. Add Altera I2C master driver and AT24 eeprom driver.
 5. Add Device Tree support to get the configuration from card.
-6. Instruding and exposing APIs to DPDK PMD driver to access networking
+6. Instruding and exposing APIs to DPDK PMD to access networking
 functionality.
-- 
2.25.1