diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
index dab0a5abc3912..09c00d91094c1 100644
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_get_resource);
  *				    device
  *
  * @pdev: platform device to use both for memory resource lookup as well as
- *        resource managemend
+ *        resource management
  * @index: resource index
  */
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM