diff --git a/src/mesa/main/teximage.c b/src/mesa/main/teximage.c
index 793c5d38282..71865ae3452 100644
--- a/src/mesa/main/teximage.c
+++ b/src/mesa/main/teximage.c
@@ -2870,7 +2870,7 @@ _mesa_choose_texture_format(struct gl_context *ctx,
    }
 
    /* If the application requested compression to an S3TC format but we don't
-    * have the DTXn library, force a generic compressed format instead.
+    * have the DXTn library, force a generic compressed format instead.
     */
    if (internalFormat != format && format != GL_NONE) {
       const GLenum before = internalFormat;