diff --git a/man7/pthreads.7 b/man7/pthreads.7
index 054b9be45..213e23af5 100644
--- a/man7/pthreads.7
+++ b/man7/pthreads.7
@@ -356,6 +356,9 @@ NPTL still has at least one non-conformance with POSIX.1:
 Threads do not share a common nice value.
 .\" FIXME . bug report filed for NPTL nice non-conformance
 .\" http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6258
+.\" Sep 08: there is a patch by Denys Vlasenko to address this
+.\" "make setpriority POSIX compliant; introduce PRIO_THREAD extension"
+.\" Monitor this to see if it makes it into mainline.
 .PP
 Some NPTL non-conformances only occur with older kernels:
 .IP \- 3