diff --git a/Documentation/kobject.txt b/Documentation/kobject.txt
index f5d2aad65a67..b2e374586bd8 100644
--- a/Documentation/kobject.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kobject.txt
@@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ the name of the kobject, call kobject_rename():
 
     int kobject_rename(struct kobject *kobj, const char *new_name);
 
-Note kobject_rename does perform any locking or have a solid notion of
-what names are valid so the provide must provide their own sanity checking
+kobject_rename does not perform any locking or have a solid notion of
+what names are valid so the caller must provide their own sanity checking
 and serialization.
 
 There is a function called kobject_set_name() but that is legacy cruft and