diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
index 0d15ebccf5b..a1e2e0dda90 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
@@ -248,9 +248,7 @@ code, that is done in the initialization code in the usual way:
 	{
 	        struct proc_dir_entry *entry;
 
-	        entry = create_proc_entry("sequence", 0, NULL);
-	        if (entry)
-	                entry->proc_fops = &ct_file_ops;
+	        proc_create("sequence", 0, NULL, &ct_file_ops);
 	        return 0;
 	}