diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index a5b3ebd..8a3d316 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
 worked on that hierarchy in contrib/.
 
 
-(6) Sign your work
+(4) Sign your work
 
 To improve tracking of who did what, we've borrowed the
 "sign-off" procedure from the Linux kernel project on patches