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Documentation: doc-guide: use '%' constant indicator in Return: examples 

Use the 'constant' indicator '%' in the examples for the
Return: values syntax. This can help encourage people to use it.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221121154358.36856ca6@gandalf.local.home/
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230703232030.8223-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
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@ -151,9 +151,9 @@ named ``Return``.
line breaks, so if you try to format some text nicely, as in::
* Return:
* 0 - OK
* -EINVAL - invalid argument
* -ENOMEM - out of memory
* %0 - OK
* %-EINVAL - invalid argument
* %-ENOMEM - out of memory
this will all run together and produce::
@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ named ``Return``.
ReST list, e. g.::
* Return:
* * 0 - OK to runtime suspend the device
* * -EBUSY - Device should not be runtime suspended
* * %0 - OK to runtime suspend the device
* * %-EBUSY - Device should not be runtime suspended
#) If the descriptive text you provide has lines that begin with
some phrase followed by a colon, each of those phrases will be taken