diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContext.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContext.scala
index 9ced44131b0d9..6aafb4c5644d7 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContext.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContext.scala
@@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ class SparkContext(config: SparkConf) extends Logging with ExecutorAllocationCli
    * }}}
    *
    * Do
-   * `val rdd = sparkContext.dataStreamFiles("hdfs://a-hdfs-path")`,
+   * `val rdd = sparkContext.binaryFiles("hdfs://a-hdfs-path")`,
    *
    * then `rdd` contains
    * {{{