1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
index 2ed95f9b770a..f806e50aaa63 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
@@ -210,9 +210,9 @@ Other notes:
   is 4096. 
 
 - show() methods should return the number of bytes printed into the
-  buffer. This is the return value of snprintf().
+  buffer. This is the return value of scnprintf().
 
-- show() should always use snprintf(). 
+- show() should always use scnprintf().
 
 - store() should return the number of bytes used from the buffer. If the
   entire buffer has been used, just return the count argument.
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ A very simple (and naive) implementation of a device attribute is:
 static ssize_t show_name(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
                          char *buf)
 {
-        return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", dev->name);
+        return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", dev->name);
 }
 
 static ssize_t store_name(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,