diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 54df8d8fdc4..b356e46ddc9 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ Release 0.23-PB - Unreleased
     HADOOP-7693. Enhance AvroRpcEngine to support the new #addProtocol
     interface introduced in HADOOP-7524.  (cutting)
 
+    HADOOP-7716 RPC protocol registration on SS does not log the protocol name
+    (only the class which may be different) (sanjay)
+
 Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/WritableRpcEngine.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/WritableRpcEngine.java
index d1a80361850..314bfac5824 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/WritableRpcEngine.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/WritableRpcEngine.java
@@ -388,8 +388,9 @@ public class WritableRpcEngine implements RpcEngine {
       }
       protocolImplMap.put(new ProtoNameVer(protocolName, version),
           new ProtoClassProtoImpl(protocolClass, protocolImpl)); 
-      LOG.info("ProtocolImpl=" + protocolImpl.getClass().getName() + 
-          " protocolClass=" + protocolClass.getName() + " version=" + version);
+      LOG.info("Protocol Name = " + protocolName +  " version=" + version +
+          " ProtocolImpl=" + protocolImpl.getClass().getName() + 
+          " protocolClass=" + protocolClass.getName());
     }
     
     private static class VerProtocolImpl {