diff --git a/components/freertos/CMakeLists.txt b/components/freertos/CMakeLists.txt
index f8e3141670..ec244fc76b 100644
--- a/components/freertos/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/components/freertos/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ else()
         "${kernel_dir}/portable/${arch}/portasm.S")
 
     list(APPEND private_include_dirs
-        "esp_additions/private_include")    # For include "freertos_tasks_c_additions.h"
+        "esp_additions")    # For #include "freertos_tasks_c_additions.h"
 
     if(CONFIG_FREERTOS_SMP)
         set(ldfragments linker_smp.lf linker_common.lf)
diff --git a/components/freertos/esp_additions/private_include/freertos_tasks_c_additions.h b/components/freertos/esp_additions/freertos_tasks_c_additions.h
similarity index 98%
rename from components/freertos/esp_additions/private_include/freertos_tasks_c_additions.h
rename to components/freertos/esp_additions/freertos_tasks_c_additions.h
index bc43cabdcd..526581d3bd 100644
--- a/components/freertos/esp_additions/private_include/freertos_tasks_c_additions.h
+++ b/components/freertos/esp_additions/freertos_tasks_c_additions.h
@@ -10,12 +10,11 @@
 #include "idf_additions_inc.h"
 
 /**
- * This file will be included in `tasks.c` file, thus, it must NOT be included
- * by any (other) file.
- * The functions below only consist in getters for the static variables in
- * `tasks.c` file.
- * The only source files that should call these functions are the ones in
- * `/additions` directory.
+ * This file will be included in `tasks.c` file, thus, it is treated as a source
+ * file instead of a header file, and must NOT be included by any (other) file.
+ * This file is used to add additional functions to `tasks.c`. See the
+ * `esp_additions/include` directory of the headers that expose these `tasks.c`
+ * additional API.
  */
 
 /* ----------------------------------------------------- Newlib --------------------------------------------------------