diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index d0d967638b8..5b694141c21 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ Release 0.23.1 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-2707. HttpFS should read the hadoop-auth secret from a file instead 
     inline from the configuration. (tucu)
 
+    HDFS-2790. FSNamesystem.setTimes throws exception with wrong
+    configuration name in the message. (Arpit Gupta via eli)
+
 Release 0.23.0 - 2011-11-01 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
index 49a1751daac..fe1d645d11b 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
@@ -932,7 +932,7 @@ void setTimes(String src, long mtime, long atime)
     throws IOException, UnresolvedLinkException {
     if (!isAccessTimeSupported() && atime != -1) {
       throw new IOException("Access time for hdfs is not configured. " +
-                            " Please set dfs.support.accessTime configuration parameter.");
+                            " Please set " + DFS_NAMENODE_ACCESSTIME_PRECISION_KEY + " configuration parameter.");
     }
     writeLock();
     try {