diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/input/WholeTextFileInputFormat.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/input/WholeTextFileInputFormat.scala
index 4cb450577796a..183bce3d8d8d3 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/input/WholeTextFileInputFormat.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/input/WholeTextFileInputFormat.scala
@@ -48,9 +48,10 @@ private[spark] class WholeTextFileInputFormat extends CombineFileInputFormat[Str
   }
 
   /**
-   * Allow minPartitions set by end-user in order to keep compatibility with old Hadoop API.
+   * Allow minPartitions set by end-user in order to keep compatibility with old Hadoop API,
+   * which is set through setMaxSplitSize
    */
-  def setMaxSplitSize(context: JobContext, minPartitions: Int) {
+  def setMinPartitions(context: JobContext, minPartitions: Int) {
     val files = listStatus(context)
     val totalLen = files.map { file =>
       if (file.isDir) 0L else file.getLen
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/NewHadoopRDD.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/NewHadoopRDD.scala
index f2b3a64bf1345..26bfb2d5fa8a3 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/NewHadoopRDD.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/NewHadoopRDD.scala
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ private[spark] class WholeTextFileRDD(
       case _ =>
     }
     val jobContext = newJobContext(conf, jobId)
-    inputFormat.setMaxSplitSize(jobContext, minPartitions)
+    inputFormat.setMinPartitions(jobContext, minPartitions)
     val rawSplits = inputFormat.getSplits(jobContext).toArray
     val result = new Array[Partition](rawSplits.size)
     for (i <- 0 until rawSplits.size) {