diff --git a/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml b/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml
index 58cc98ddff..b08f7983f0 100644
--- a/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml
+++ b/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
                 <filename>FILESPATH</filename> variable in your
                 <filename>.bbappend</filename> file:
                 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
-     FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
+     FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
      SRC_URI += "file://8250.cfg"
                 </literallayout>
                 The next time you run BitBake to build the Linux kernel, BitBake