diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/early-userspace/early_userspace_support.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/early-userspace/early_userspace_support.rst
index 61bdeac1bae541..60d1e1bc9413bc 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/early-userspace/early_userspace_support.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/early-userspace/early_userspace_support.rst
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ usr/gen_initramfs.sh.  This means that CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE
 can really be interpreted as any legal argument to
 gen_initramfs.sh.  If a directory is specified as an argument then
 the contents are scanned, uid/gid translation is performed, and
-usr/gen_init_cpio file directives are output.  If a directory is
+usr/gen_init_cpio file directives are output.  If a file is
 specified as an argument to usr/gen_initramfs.sh then the
 contents of the file are simply copied to the output.  All of the output
 directives from directory scanning and file contents copying are