diff --git a/Documentation/accel/introduction.rst b/Documentation/accel/introduction.rst
index 11cade51f387..89984dfececf 100644
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@@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ tree - drivers/accel/.
 The accelerator devices will be exposed to the user space with the dedicated
 261 major number and will have the following convention:
 
-- device char files - /dev/accel/accel*
-- sysfs             - /sys/class/accel/accel*/
-- debugfs           - /sys/kernel/debug/accel/*/
+- device char files - /dev/accel/accel\*
+- sysfs             - /sys/class/accel/accel\*/
+- debugfs           - /sys/kernel/debug/accel/\*/
 
 Getting Started
 ===============