diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
index 2ffb0d6..0543162 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@
 flags can be or'd together and are
 
 DMA_MEMORY_MAP - request that the memory returned from
-dma_alloc_coherent() be directly writeable.
+dma_alloc_coherent() be directly writable.
 
 DMA_MEMORY_IO - request that the memory returned from
 dma_alloc_coherent() be addressable using read/write/memcpy_toio etc.