diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_main.c
index 360a91188437c301366cad5feff96e6e0a6983b3..c8ad8385d271a594adb523701e397e7a9b8947c5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_main.c
@@ -1130,9 +1130,6 @@ static int i40evf_set_interrupt_capability(struct i40evf_adapter *adapter)
 	v_budget = min_t(int, pairs, (int)(num_online_cpus() * 2)) + NONQ_VECS;
 	v_budget = min_t(int, v_budget, (int)adapter->vf_res->max_vectors);
 
-	/* A failure in MSI-X entry allocation isn't fatal, but it does
-	 * mean we disable MSI-X capabilities of the adapter.
-	 */
 	adapter->msix_entries = kcalloc(v_budget,
 					sizeof(struct msix_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!adapter->msix_entries) {