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-rw-r--r--Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst5
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst
index 207fd93d7c80..d4793826ad9a 100644
--- a/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst
+++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst
@@ -79,8 +79,9 @@ simplistic idea of what C comment blocks look like. This problem had been
present since that comment was added in 2016 — a full four years. Fixing
it was a matter of adding the missing asterisks. A quick look at the
history for that file showed what the normal format for subject lines is,
-and ``scripts/get_maintainer.pl`` told me who should receive it. The
-resulting patch looked like this::
+and ``scripts/get_maintainer.pl`` told me who should receive it (pass paths to
+your patches as arguments to scripts/get_maintainer.pl). The resulting patch
+looked like this::
[PATCH] PM / devfreq: Fix two malformed kerneldoc comments
diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
index 79aaa55d6bcf..a7cb2afd7990 100644
--- a/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+===========================
Writing kernel-doc comments
===========================
@@ -436,6 +437,7 @@ The title following ``DOC:`` acts as a heading within the source file, but also
as an identifier for extracting the documentation comment. Thus, the title must
be unique within the file.
+=============================
Including kernel-doc comments
=============================
diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst
index bb36f18ae9ac..2ff1ab4158d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst
+++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
.. _sphinxdoc:
-Introduction
-============
+=====================================
+Using Sphinx for kernel documentation
+=====================================
The Linux kernel uses `Sphinx`_ to generate pretty documentation from
`reStructuredText`_ files under ``Documentation``. To build the documentation in