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diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-func-poll.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-func-poll.rst
index fcab65f6d6b8..cfb73e6027a5 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-func-poll.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-func-poll.rst
@@ -20,16 +20,28 @@ Synopsis
#include <sys/poll.h>
-.. cpp:function:: int poll( struct pollfd *ufds, unsigned int nfds, int timeout )
+.. c:function:: int poll( struct pollfd *ufds, unsigned int nfds, int timeout )
+ :name: cec-poll
Arguments
=========
+``ufds``
+ List of FD events to be watched
+
+``nfds``
+ Number of FD efents at the \*ufds array
+
+``timeout``
+ Timeout to wait for events
+
Description
===========
-.. note:: This documents the proposed CEC API. This API is not yet finalized
+.. note::
+
+ This documents the proposed CEC API. This API is not yet finalized
and is currently only available as a staging kernel module.
With the :c:func:`poll()` function applications can wait for CEC
@@ -37,7 +49,7 @@ events.
On success :c:func:`poll()` returns the number of file descriptors
that have been selected (that is, file descriptors for which the
-``revents`` field of the respective :c:type:`struct pollfd` structure
+``revents`` field of the respective struct :c:type:`pollfd`
is non-zero). CEC devices set the ``POLLIN`` and ``POLLRDNORM`` flags in
the ``revents`` field if there are messages in the receive queue. If the
transmit queue has room for new messages, the ``POLLOUT`` and