diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 431998d9cee9..f3b99701da5b 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -3130,7 +3130,7 @@ out:
  *	chain. 0 is returned on success. A negative errno code is returned
  *	on a failure to set up the device, or if the name is a duplicate.
  *
- *	This is a wrapper around register_netdev that takes the rtnl semaphore
+ *	This is a wrapper around register_netdevice that takes the rtnl semaphore
  *	and expands the device name if you passed a format string to
  *	alloc_netdev.
  */