diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index edcf1afe10..ccb0949a1b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2019-10-10  Dmitry V. Levin  <ldv@altlinux.org>
+
+	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscall-names.list: Fix typos in comment,
+	reformat the affected paragraph.
+
 2019-10-10  Łukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>
 
 	* include/time.h (__clock_settime64):
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscall-names.list b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscall-names.list
index b55ffbc2a0..1527823611 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscall-names.list
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscall-names.list
@@ -16,11 +16,10 @@
 # License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
 # <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-# This file contains the list of system call names names.  It has to
-# remain in alphabetica order.  Lines which start with # are treated
-# as comments.  This file can list all potential system calls.  The
-# names are only used if the installed kernel headers also provide
-# them.
+# This file contains the list of system call names.  It has to remain in
+# alphabetical order.  Lines which start with # are treated as comments.
+# This file can list all potential system calls.  The names are only
+# used if the installed kernel headers also provide them.
 
 # The list of system calls is current as of Linux 5.3.
 kernel 5.3