diff --git a/poky/documentation/kernel-dev/advanced.rst b/poky/documentation/kernel-dev/advanced.rst
index b5290b6..b16b3e0 100644
--- a/poky/documentation/kernel-dev/advanced.rst
+++ b/poky/documentation/kernel-dev/advanced.rst
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@
    order to define a base kernel policy or major kernel type to be
    reused across multiple BSPs, place the file in ``ktypes`` directory.
 
-These distinctions can easily become blurred - especially as out-of-tree
+These distinctions can easily become blurred --- especially as out-of-tree
 features slowly merge upstream over time. Also, remember that how the
 description files are placed is a purely logical organization and has no
 impact on the functionality of the kernel Metadata. There is no impact
diff --git a/poky/documentation/kernel-dev/concepts-appx.rst b/poky/documentation/kernel-dev/concepts-appx.rst
index b3a2f3a..63c5124 100644
--- a/poky/documentation/kernel-dev/concepts-appx.rst
+++ b/poky/documentation/kernel-dev/concepts-appx.rst
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
 team's Yocto Linux kernel development strategy. It is the Yocto Project
 team's policy to not back-port minor features to the released Yocto
 Linux kernel. They only consider back-porting significant technological
-jumps - and, that is done after a complete gap analysis. The reason
+jumps --- and, that is done after a complete gap analysis. The reason
 for this policy is that back-porting any small to medium sized change
 from an evolving Linux kernel can easily create mismatches,
 incompatibilities and very subtle errors.