diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-event.c b/drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-event.c
index 66d320bf3020..5fdf739e38f9 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-event.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-event.c
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
 /**
  * struct iio_event_interface - chrdev interface for an event line
  * @wait:		wait queue to allow blocking reads of events
- * @event_list_lock:	mutex to protect the list of detected events
  * @det_events:		list of detected events
  * @dev_attr_list:	list of event interface sysfs attribute
  * @flags:		file operations related flags including busy flag.