diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients b/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients
index f997c72302a2..f03c2a02f806 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients
@@ -126,9 +126,8 @@ Technical changes:
 * [Driver] The flags field of the i2c_driver structure is gone.
   I2C_DF_NOTIFY is now the default behavior.
   The i2c_driver structure has a driver member, which is itself a
-  structure, those owner and name members should be initialized to
-  THIS_MODULE and a driver name string, respectively. i2c_driver
-  itself has no name member anymore.
+  structure, those name member should be initialized to a driver name
+  string. i2c_driver itself has no name member anymore.
 
 Coding policy:
 
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
index 95eed2b25339..27c425ac70aa 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ address.
 
 static struct i2c_driver foo_driver = {
 	.driver = {
-		.owner	= THIS_MODULE,
 		.name	= "foo",
 	},
 	.attach_adapter	= &foo_attach_adapter,