diff --git a/Documentation/pinctrl.txt b/Documentation/pinctrl.txt
index 150fd38..14aecd2 100644
--- a/Documentation/pinctrl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pinctrl.txt
@@ -805,10 +805,7 @@
 
 As you can see we may have several pin controllers on the system and thus
 we need to specify which one of them that contain the functions we wish
-to map. The map can also use struct device * directly, so there is no
-inherent need to use strings to specify .dev_name or .ctrl_dev_name, these
-are for the situation where you do not have a handle to the struct device *,
-for example if they are not yet instantiated or cumbersome to obtain.
+to map.
 
 You register this pinmux mapping to the pinmux subsystem by simply: