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diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
index 8fb9de4f4875..9b1d81c26b7d 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
@@ -551,9 +551,8 @@ from /dev).
After video_unregister_device() returns no new opens can be done. However,
in the case of USB devices some application might still have one of these
-device nodes open. So after the unregister all file operations will return
-an error as well, except for the ioctl and unlocked_ioctl file operations:
-those will still be passed on since some buffer ioctls may still be needed.
+device nodes open. So after the unregister all file operations (except
+release, of course) will return an error as well.
When the last user of the video device node exits, then the vdev->release()
callback is called and you can do the final cleanup there.