diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-streamon.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-streamon.rst
index 0bc86f06947ba1514847ea251c0132223f48a378..1a79313a29fa4c297f9fa01ff4f6f2698b7f40dc 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-streamon.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-streamon.rst
@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ the capture or output process during streaming
 Capture hardware is disabled and no input buffers are filled (if there
 are any empty buffers in the incoming queue) until ``VIDIOC_STREAMON``
 has been called. Output hardware is disabled and no video signal is
-produced until ``VIDIOC_STREAMON`` has been called. The ioctl will
-succeed when at least one output buffer is in the incoming queue.
+produced until ``VIDIOC_STREAMON`` has been called.
 
 Memory-to-memory devices will not start until ``VIDIOC_STREAMON`` has
 been called for both the capture and output stream types.