diff --git a/man2/getitimer.2 b/man2/getitimer.2
index bf5537398..8c8d1c833 100644
--- a/man2/getitimer.2
+++ b/man2/getitimer.2
@@ -166,6 +166,8 @@ On certain systems (including x86),
 Linux kernels before version 2.6.12 have a bug which will produce 
 premature timer expirations of up to one jiffy under some circumstances.
 This bug is fixed in kernel 2.6.12.
+.\" 4 Jul 2005: It looks like this bug may remain in 2.4.x.
+.\"	http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/1/165
 
 POSIX.1 says that
 .BR setitimer ()