diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
index 4a02d2508bc8..deab51ddc33e 100644
--- a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
+++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ SPI protocol drivers somewhat resemble platform device drivers:
 		.resume		= CHIP_resume,
 	};
 
-The driver core will autmatically attempt to bind this driver to any SPI
+The driver core will automatically attempt to bind this driver to any SPI
 device whose board_info gave a modalias of "CHIP".  Your probe() code
 might look like this unless you're creating a device which is managing
 a bus (appearing under /sys/class/spi_master).