diff --git a/README b/README
index 3614b8d9d..a78654211 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -134,10 +134,12 @@ configure options, there are the following SANE specific options:
 	Means, that some backends will use a lockfile for allowing multiple
 	access to one scanner. This is useful, i.e. one frontend is scanning
 	the button status and another one will scan. The path to the lock
-	files is define by --localstatedir at the configure step and is
-	$localstatedir/lock/sane. The default group is uucp and can be
-	changed by using --with-group=newgroup. If you do not want any
-	backend to use a lockfile, simply use --disable-locking.
+	files is defined by --localstatedir at the configure step and is
+	$localstatedir/lock. The default group is uucp and can be changed
+	by using --with-group=newgroup. If you do not want any backend to
+	use a lockfile, simply use --disable-locking.
+	Note: The Plustek backend is currently the only backend that makes
+	      use of this feature.
 
 To limit the backends that are compiled, set the variable BACKENDS to
 the list of backends to compile.  The following will limit compiling
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d0d6f62f8..4227086a7 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -628,8 +628,8 @@ esac
 dnl Check for lock dir
 
 AC_ARG_WITH(lockdir, AS_HELP_STRING([--with-lockdir=DIR],
-                                    [set SANE lockdir @<:@localstatedir/lock/sane@:>@]),
-                                    [locksanedir=$withval],[locksanedir=${localstatedir}/lock/sane])
+                                    [set SANE lockdir @<:@localstatedir/lock@:>@]),
+                                    [locksanedir=$withval],[locksanedir=${localstatedir}/lock])
 AC_SUBST(locksanedir)
 
 configdir="${sysconfdir}/sane.d"