diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt
index 3b0876c77355..588d97366a46 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt
@@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ Symposium on Distributed Computing}
 	'It's entirely possible that the current user could be replaced
 	by RCU and/or seqlocks, and we could get rid of brlocks entirely.'
 	.
-	Steve Hemminger responds by replacing them with RCU.
+	Stephen Hemminger responds by replacing them with RCU.
 }
 }