diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
index 7be02ac..3e329db 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
@@ -134,15 +134,9 @@
                      	mount options "ro,noload" can be used to prevent
 		     	writes to the filesystem.
 
-journal_checksum	Enable checksumming of the journal transactions.
-			This will allow the recovery code in e2fsck and the
-			kernel to detect corruption in the kernel.  It is a
-			compatible change and will be ignored by older kernels.
-
 journal_async_commit	Commit block can be written to disk without waiting
 			for descriptor blocks. If enabled older kernels cannot
-			mount the device. This will enable 'journal_checksum'
-			internally.
+			mount the device.
 
 journal=update		Update the ext4 file system's journal to the current
 			format.