diff --git a/docs/extend/plugins_authorization.md b/docs/extend/plugins_authorization.md
index 4c11fa26ca..8630bfb761 100644
--- a/docs/extend/plugins_authorization.md
+++ b/docs/extend/plugins_authorization.md
@@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ support the Docker client interactions detailed in this section.
 Enable the authorization plugin with a dedicated command line flag in the
 `--authorization-plugin=PLUGIN_ID` format. The flag supplies a `PLUGIN_ID`
 value. This value can be the plugin’s socket or a path to a specification file.
+Authorization plugins can be loaded without restarting the daemon. Refer
+to the [`dockerd` documentation](../reference/commandline/dockerd.md#configuration-reloading) for more information.
 
 ```bash
 $ docker daemon --authorization-plugin=plugin1 --authorization-plugin=plugin2,...
diff --git a/docs/reference/commandline/dockerd.md b/docs/reference/commandline/dockerd.md
index f3ac7e5fb4..9c0d4b71c6 100644
--- a/docs/reference/commandline/dockerd.md
+++ b/docs/reference/commandline/dockerd.md
@@ -1152,6 +1152,7 @@ The list of currently supported options that can be reconfigured is this:
   the runtime shipped with the official docker packages.
 - `runtimes`: it updates the list of available OCI runtimes that can
   be used to run containers
+- `authorization-plugin`: specifies the authorization plugins to use.
 
 Updating and reloading the cluster configurations such as `--cluster-store`,
 `--cluster-advertise` and `--cluster-store-opts` will take effect only if