diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.xml
index 1c0816372074..69800ae23348 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.xml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ fields of the v4l2_requestbuffers structure.
They set the type field to the respective
stream or buffer type, the count field to
the desired number of buffers, memory
-must be set to the requested I/O method and the reserved array
+must be set to the requested I/O method and the reserved array
must be zeroed. When the ioctl
is called with a pointer to this structure the driver will attempt to allocate
the requested number of buffers and it stores the actual number