diff --git a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml
index 95a8b95b17..069a0ec809 100644
--- a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml
+++ b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml
@@ -2565,15 +2565,17 @@
             </para>
 
             <para>
-                You might want to not only have BitBake look for
-                dependencies of those tasks, but also have BitBake look
-                for build-time and runtime dependencies of the dependent
-                tasks as well.
-                If that is the case, you need to reference the task name
-                itself in the task list:
+                BitBake allows a task to recursively depend on itself by
+                referencing itself in the task list:
                 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
      do_a[recrdeptask] = "do_a do_b"
                 </literallayout>
+                In the same way as before, this means that the <filename>do_a</filename>
+                and <filename>do_b</filename> tasks of the current recipe and all
+                recipes reachable (by way of dependencies) from the recipe
+                must run before the <filename>do_a</filename> task can run. In this
+                case BitBake will ignore the current recipe's <filename>do_a</filename>
+                task circular dependency on itself.
             </para>
         </section>