diff --git a/man7/namespaces.7 b/man7/namespaces.7
index 362c78316..686d11b36 100644
--- a/man7/namespaces.7
+++ b/man7/namespaces.7
@@ -150,7 +150,9 @@ The file descriptor can be passed to
 .BR setns (2).
 
 In Linux 3.7 and earlier, these files were visible as hard links.
-Since Linux 3.8, they appear as symbolic links.
+Since Linux 3.8,
+.\" commit bf056bfa80596a5d14b26b17276a56a0dcb080e5
+they appear as symbolic links.
 If two processes are in the same namespace, then the inode numbers of their
 .IR /proc/[pid]/ns/xxx
 symbolic links will be the same; an application can check this using the