diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/firmware/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/firmware/Makefile
index 9bf82234855b..1894d625af2d 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/firmware/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/firmware/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # No binaries, but make sure arg-less "make" doesn't trigger "run_tests"
 all:
 
-TEST_PROGS := fw_filesystem.sh fw_userhelper.sh
+TEST_PROGS := fw_filesystem.sh fw_fallback.sh
 
 include ../lib.mk
 
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/firmware/fw_userhelper.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/firmware/fw_fallback.sh
similarity index 96%
rename from tools/testing/selftests/firmware/fw_userhelper.sh
rename to tools/testing/selftests/firmware/fw_fallback.sh
index 01c626a1f226..f694afb7d12d 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/firmware/fw_userhelper.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/firmware/fw_fallback.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# This validates that the kernel will fall back to using the user helper
+# This validates that the kernel will fall back to using the fallback mechanism
 # to load firmware it can't find on disk itself. We must request a firmware
 # that the kernel won't find, and any installed helper (e.g. udev) also
 # won't find so that we can do the load ourself manually.
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ if ! diff -q "$FW" /dev/test_firmware >/dev/null ; then
 	echo "$0: firmware was not loaded" >&2
 	exit 1
 else
-	echo "$0: user helper firmware loading works"
+	echo "$0: fallback mechanism works"
+
 fi
 
 exit 0