Re: [PATCH] docs: escape literal asterisk to fix reST emphasis warning

[Khaled Elnaggar]

On 26/05/2025 10:35 pm, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 09:43:59PM +0300, Khaled Elnaggar wrote:
>> Escaped a literal '*' character in symbol-namespaces.rst to prevent
>> a Docutils warning about unmatched emphasis markers during documentation build.
> 
> I don't think this is the right way to fix this problem.  We want
> the test to work in both rendered and un-rendered form.  I think
> we can do something like:
> 
> -For example:
> +For example::
> 
> to turn it into a block that is rendered literally.  See
> 
>                 For example::
> 
>                   echo $((100 * `cat active_duration` / `cat connected_duration`))
> 
> as an example in Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-usb
> 
>>  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
>>
>>

That even looks better in rendered, (::) are actually so prevalent I don't know
how I did not see it before. I will send v2, thank you for the proper fix.