linux-kernel - [PATCH] docs: escape literal asterisk to fix reST emphasis warning

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Message-ID: <20250526184401.33417-1-khaledelnaggarlinux@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 21:43:59 +0300
From: Khaled Elnaggar <khaledelnaggarlinux@...il.com>
To: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Khaled Elnaggar <khaledelnaggarlinux@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linux.dev,
	shuah@...nel.org,
	corbet@....net,
	masahiroy@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] docs: escape literal asterisk to fix reST emphasis warning

Escaped a literal '*' character in symbol-namespaces.rst to prevent
a Docutils warning about unmatched emphasis markers during documentation build.

Signed-off-by: Khaled Elnaggar <khaledelnaggarlinux@...il.com>
---

Hello, this is probably too trivial to have its own patch, but I found
it while building today's tag, so I thought I would send a patch.

---
 Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst b/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
index f7cfa7b73e97..008b34fe6629 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ modules to access this symbol. Simple tail-globs are supported.

 For example:

-  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES(preempt_notifier_inc, "kvm,kvm-*")
+  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES(preempt_notifier_inc, "kvm,kvm-\*")

 will limit usage of this symbol to modules whoes name matches the given
 patterns.
--
2.47.2