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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2017-07-17 11:17:36 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2017-07-17 11:17:36 -0300
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Merge tag 'v4.13-rc1' into patchwork
Linux v4.13-rc1 * tag 'v4.13-rc1': (11136 commits) Linux v4.13-rc1 random: reorder READ_ONCE() in get_random_uXX random: suppress spammy warnings about unseeded randomness replace incorrect strscpy use in FORTIFY_SOURCE kmod: throttle kmod thread limit kmod: add test driver to stress test the module loader MAINTAINERS: give kmod some maintainer love xtensa: use generic fb.h fault-inject: add /proc/<pid>/fail-nth fault-inject: simplify access check for fail-nth fault-inject: make fail-nth read/write interface symmetric fault-inject: parse as natural 1-based value for fail-nth write interface fault-inject: automatically detect the number base for fail-nth write interface kernel/watchdog.c: use better pr_fmt prefix MAINTAINERS: move the befs tree to kernel.org lib/atomic64_test.c: add a test that atomic64_inc_not_zero() returns an int mm: fix overflow check in expand_upwards() ubifs: Set double hash cookie also for RENAME_EXCHANGE ubifs: Massage assert in ubifs_xattr_set() wrt. init_xattrs ubifs: Don't leak kernel memory to the MTD ...
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@@ -149,6 +149,16 @@ Domain`_ references.
``%CONST``
Name of a constant. (No cross-referencing, just formatting.)
+````literal````
+ A literal block that should be handled as-is. The output will use a
+ ``monospaced font``.
+
+ Useful if you need to use special characters that would otherwise have some
+ meaning either by kernel-doc script of by reStructuredText.
+
+ This is particularly useful if you need to use things like ``%ph`` inside
+ a function description.
+
``$ENVVAR``
Name of an environment variable. (No cross-referencing, just formatting.)