Without this patch, Sphinx renders the sentence as follows, thus hiding the backslashes: [...] end each string except the last with <cite>nt</cite> to properly indent the next instruction [...] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst index d20d52a4d812..7710c7e0240c 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst @@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ do so, though, and doing so unnecessarily can limit optimization. When writing a single inline assembly statement containing multiple instructions, put each instruction on a separate line in a separate quoted -string, and end each string except the last with \n\t to properly indent the +string, and end each string except the last with ``\n\t`` to properly indent the next instruction in the assembly output: .. code-block:: c -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html