diff --git a/man7/fanotify.7 b/man7/fanotify.7
index c4f5397e4..5804a1f30 100644
--- a/man7/fanotify.7
+++ b/man7/fanotify.7
@@ -29,11 +29,12 @@ fanotify \- monitoring filesystem events
 The fanotify API provides notification and interception of
 filesystem events.
 Use cases include virus scanning and hierarchical storage management.
-Currently, only a limited set of events is supported.
-In particular, there is no support for create, delete, and move events.
+In the original fanotify API, only a limited set of events was supported.
+In particular, there was no support for create, delete, and move events.
+The support for those events was added in Linux 5.1.
 (See
 .BR inotify (7)
-for details of an API that does notify those events.)
+for details of an API that did notify those events pre Linux 5.1.)
 .PP
 Additional capabilities compared to the
 .BR inotify (7)