diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst b/Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst
index 391decc..c4eb504 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst
@@ -366,6 +366,8 @@
 Cross-referencing from reStructuredText
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
+.. highlight:: none
+
 To cross-reference the functions and types defined in the kernel-doc comments
 from reStructuredText documents, please use the `Sphinx C Domain`_
 references. For example::
@@ -388,6 +390,8 @@
 Function documentation
 ----------------------
 
+.. highlight:: c
+
 The general format of a function and function-like macro kernel-doc comment is::
 
   /**
@@ -568,6 +572,8 @@
 Converting DocBook to Sphinx
 ----------------------------
 
+.. highlight:: none
+
 Over time, we expect all of the documents under ``Documentation/DocBook`` to be
 converted to Sphinx and reStructuredText. For most DocBook XML documents, a good
 enough solution is to use the simple ``Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt`` script,