diff --git a/documentation/kernel-manual/kernel-how-to.xml b/documentation/kernel-manual/kernel-how-to.xml
index 01a78e685c..07e4d7828c 100644
--- a/documentation/kernel-manual/kernel-how-to.xml
+++ b/documentation/kernel-manual/kernel-how-to.xml
@@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@ That's it. Configure and build.
For this example the only thing left was the kernel directory with a
linux-yocto_git.bbappend file (linux-yocto is the kernel listed in
meta-crownbay/conf/machine/crownbay.conf.
- Add a new entry in the build/donf/bblayers.conf
+ Add a new entry in the build/conf/bblayers.conf
so the new layer can be found by Bitbake.