diff --git a/man2/readv.2 b/man2/readv.2
index 3b89860e4..c44031756 100644
--- a/man2/readv.2
+++ b/man2/readv.2
@@ -375,13 +375,6 @@ that the system is running a Linux kernel older than version 2.6.18
 And since glibc 2.20
 (which requires a minimum Linux kernel version of 2.6.32),
 the glibc wrapper functions always just directly invoke the system calls.
-
-It is not advisable to mix calls to
-.BR readv ()
-or
-.BR writev (),
-which operate on file descriptors, with the functions from the stdio
-library; the results will be undefined and probably not what you want.
 .SH EXAMPLE
 The following code sample demonstrates the use of
 .BR writev ():