diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
index cb712a02f59f..358d495456d1 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ The standard 64-bit addressing device would do something like this::
 
 If the device only supports 32-bit addressing for descriptors in the
 coherent allocations, but supports full 64-bits for streaming mappings
-it would look like this:
+it would look like this::
 
 	if (dma_set_mask(dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(64))) {
 		dev_warn(dev, "mydev: No suitable DMA available\n");