diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/pinger.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/pinger.c
index d05c37c1fd30..f8edb791a998 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/pinger.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/pinger.c
@@ -318,8 +318,6 @@ int ptlrpc_start_pinger(void)
 
 	strcpy(pinger_thread.t_name, "ll_ping");
 
-	/* CLONE_VM and CLONE_FILES just avoid a needless copy, because we
-	 * just drop the VM and FILES in cfs_daemonize_ctxt() right away. */
 	rc = PTR_ERR(kthread_run(ptlrpc_pinger_main, &pinger_thread,
 				 "%s", pinger_thread.t_name));
 	if (IS_ERR_VALUE(rc)) {