diff --git a/target/linux/generic/PATCHES b/target/linux/generic/PATCHES
index d741a73cbb..34608188d5 100644
--- a/target/linux/generic/PATCHES
+++ b/target/linux/generic/PATCHES
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ The patches-* subdirectories contain the kernel patches applied for every
 OpenWrt target. All patches should be named 'NNN-lowercase_shortname.patch'
 and sorted into the following categories:
 
-0xx - upstream backports:
+0xx - upstream backports
 1xx - code awaiting upstream merge
 2xx - kernel build / config / header patches
 3xx - architecture specific patches