diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
index 4018ad7c7a11..6bc126a14b3d 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ is not sufficient this sometimes needs to be explicit.
 	Example::
 
 		#arch/x86/boot/Makefile
-		subdir- := compressed/
+		subdir- := compressed
 
 The above assignment instructs kbuild to descend down in the
 directory compressed/ when "make clean" is executed.