diff --git a/include/linux/irq.h b/include/linux/irq.h
index 6f8b340664421bb797fd37488bbd2c97afb6d3d4..72a6b2feb7bfb4538798fd013cae68397c1c4ba1 100644
--- a/include/linux/irq.h
+++ b/include/linux/irq.h
@@ -151,10 +151,6 @@ struct irq_common_data {
  *			methods, to allow shared chip implementations
  * @msi_desc:		MSI descriptor
  * @affinity:		IRQ affinity on SMP
- *
- * The fields here need to overlay the ones in irq_desc until we
- * cleaned up the direct references and switched everything over to
- * irq_data.
  */
 struct irq_data {
 	u32			mask;