diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index b58ba36e51..c11f2b3ff7 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -8265,7 +8265,7 @@ Some notes from Cal:
                     These types of situations are usually due to references
                     to machine-specific variables such as
                     <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-MACHINE'><filename>MACHINE</filename></ulink>,
-                    <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-SERIAL_CONSOLE'><filename>SERIAL_CONSOLE</filename></ulink>,
+                    <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-SERIAL_CONSOLES'><filename>SERIAL_CONSOLES</filename></ulink>,
                     <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-XSERVER'><filename>XSERVER</filename></ulink>,
                     <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-MACHINE_FEATURES'><filename>MACHINE_FEATURES</filename></ulink>,
                     and so forth in code that is supposed to only be