diff --git a/docs/admin/admission-controllers.md b/docs/admin/admission-controllers.md
index 26d192cbc2..df41f591ce 100644
--- a/docs/admin/admission-controllers.md
+++ b/docs/admin/admission-controllers.md
@@ -143,8 +143,6 @@ enabling this admission controller.
 This admission controller mitigates the problem where the API server gets flooded by
 event requests. The cluster admin can specify event rate limits by:
 
- * Ensuring that `eventratelimit.admission.k8s.io/v1alpha1=true` is included in the
-   `--runtime-config` flag for the API server;
  * Enabling the `EventRateLimit` admission controller;
  * Referencing an `EventRateLimit` configuration file from the file provided to the API
    server's command line flag `--admission-control-config-file`: