[PATCH] docs: escape ** glob pattern in MAINTAINERS descriptions

Matteo Croce
2026-04-09T22:31:41Z

From: Matteo Croce <teknoraver@meta.com>

Escape '**' in the MAINTAINERS descriptions section to prevent
reStructuredText from interpreting it as bold/strong inline markup,
which causes a warning when running 'make htmldocs'.

Fixes: 420849332f9f ("get_maintainer: add ** glob pattern support")
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <teknoraver@meta.com>
---
Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py b/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py
index 519ad18685b2..54f34f47c9ee 100755
--- a/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py
+++ b/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ class MaintainersInclude(Include):
output = None
if descriptions:
# Escape the escapes in preformatted text.
- output = "| %s" % (line.replace("\\", "\\\\"))
+ output = "| %s" % (line.replace("\\", "\\\\")
+ .replace("**", "\\**"))
# Look for and record field letter to field name mappings:
# R: Designated *reviewer*: FullName <address@domain>
m = re.search(r"\s(\S):\s", line)
--
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