linux-kernel - [PATCH 13/13] docs: filesystems: vfs: Use backticks to guard star

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Date:   Wed, 13 Mar 2019 15:09:19 +1100
From:   "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@...nel.org>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@...nel.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 13/13] docs: filesystems: vfs: Use backticks to guard star

Sphinx emits a warning because of the use of a * (C pointer construct)
within the document.  We can prevent this by guarding the C source code
with back ticks.

Use backticks to guard star (C pointer).

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@...nel.org>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
index c0259538a759..838777133f53 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ Extended attributes are name:value pairs.
 
 When none of the xattr handlers of a filesystem match the specified
 attribute name or when a filesystem doesn't support extended attributes,
-the various *xattr(2) system calls return -EOPNOTSUPP.
+the various ``*xattr(2)`` system calls return -EOPNOTSUPP.
 
 
 The Inode Object
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ cache in your filesystem.  The following members are defined:
   out properly.
 
   The filesystem must return the locked pagecache page for the specified
-  offset, in *pagep, for the caller to write into.
+  offset, in ``*pagep``, for the caller to write into.
 
   It must be able to cope with short writes (where the length passed to
   write_begin is greater than the number of bytes copied into the page).
-- 
2.21.0