diff --git a/include/linux/gpio/driver.h b/include/linux/gpio/driver.h
index f8617eaf08bad7..0032bb6e7d8fe3 100644
--- a/include/linux/gpio/driver.h
+++ b/include/linux/gpio/driver.h
@@ -376,9 +376,7 @@ struct gpio_irq_chip {
  * @names: if set, must be an array of strings to use as alternative
  *      names for the GPIOs in this chip. Any entry in the array
  *      may be NULL if there is no alias for the GPIO, however the
- *      array must be @ngpio entries long.  A name can include a single printk
- *      format specifier for an unsigned int.  It is substituted by the actual
- *      number of the gpio.
+ *      array must be @ngpio entries long.
  * @can_sleep: flag must be set iff get()/set() methods sleep, as they
  *	must while accessing GPIO expander chips over I2C or SPI. This
  *	implies that if the chip supports IRQs, these IRQs need to be threaded