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 This documentation is based on the LWN.net articles [1]_\ [2]_. Rafal Milecki
 also made a very complete and comprehensive summary called "A state of network
 acceleration" that describes how things were before this infrastructure was
-mailined [3]_ and it also makes a rough summary of this work [4]_.
+mainlined [3]_ and it also makes a rough summary of this work [4]_.
 
 .. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/738214/
 .. [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/742164/