diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl
index ce145babef6e..60ddf4be11c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@
 	on the PCI device in the ROM BAR.  Note that after the ROM
 	has been mapped and any necessary information has been extracted,
 	it should be unmapped; on many devices, the ROM address decoder is
-	shared with other BARs, so leaving it mapped can cause
+	shared with other BARs, so leaving it mapped could cause
 	undesired behavior like hangs or memory corruption.
 <!--!Fdrivers/pci/rom.c pci_map_rom-->
       </para>