diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
index 4dae23d06e..cb5c25bf63 100644
--- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
+++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
@@ -1518,7 +1518,6 @@ typedef struct AVCodecContext {
      * It will return only after finishing all tasks.
      * The user may replace this with some multithreaded implementation,
      * the default implementation will execute the parts serially.
-     * Also see avcodec_thread_init and e.g. the --enable-pthread configure option.
      * @param c context passed also to func
      * @param count the number of things to execute
      * @param arg2 argument passed unchanged to func