diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index ae4f15a31fc..4cd571895f6 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ Release 2.0.1-alpha - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-3803. Change BlockPoolSliceScanner chatty INFO log to DEBUG.
     (Andrew Purtell via suresh)
 
+    HDFS-3802. StartupOption.name in HdfsServerConstants should be final.
+    (Jing Zhao via szetszwo)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HDFS-2982. Startup performance suffers when there are many edit log
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/common/HdfsServerConstants.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/common/HdfsServerConstants.java
index 993869512d0..c914035230d 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/common/HdfsServerConstants.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/common/HdfsServerConstants.java
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ public final class HdfsServerConstants {
     FORCE("-force"),
     NONINTERACTIVE("-nonInteractive");
     
-    private String name = null;
+    private final String name;
     
     // Used only with format and upgrade options
     private String clusterId = null;