diff --git a/girs/GstVulkan-1.0.gir b/girs/GstVulkan-1.0.gir
index 1d15569d70..2ccae513dc 100644
--- a/girs/GstVulkan-1.0.gir
+++ b/girs/GstVulkan-1.0.gir
@@ -3546,7 +3546,8 @@ inside @handle.</doc>
 the images to setup.
 
 If @initial_access is VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_UNDEFINED or
-VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_PREINITIALIZED images does not do layout initialization.</doc>
+VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_PREINITIALIZED, the image crated by this pool has not been
+initialized to a particular layout</doc>
         <source-position filename="../subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/gst-libs/gst/vulkan/gstvkimagebufferpool.h"/>
         <return-value transfer-ownership="none">
           <type name="none" c:type="void"/>
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/gst-libs/gst/vulkan/gstvkimagebufferpool.c b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/gst-libs/gst/vulkan/gstvkimagebufferpool.c
index a4b735e9c7..1c3e7b50dc 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/gst-libs/gst/vulkan/gstvkimagebufferpool.c
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/gst-libs/gst/vulkan/gstvkimagebufferpool.c
@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ G_DEFINE_TYPE_WITH_CODE (GstVulkanImageBufferPool, gst_vulkan_image_buffer_pool,
  * the images to setup.
  *
  * If @initial_access is VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_UNDEFINED or
- * VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_PREINITIALIZED images does not do layout initialization.
+ * VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_PREINITIALIZED, the image crated by this pool has not been
+ * initialized to a particular layout
  *
  * Since: 1.24
  */