diff --git a/src/util/virlog.c b/src/util/virlog.c
index e4944d1258b756d05c5aa4723b875540322150a2..2c18eeed031764c7522297d2c75e5d5b5db81497 100644
--- a/src/util/virlog.c
+++ b/src/util/virlog.c
@@ -421,13 +421,6 @@ virLogFormatString(char **msg,
                    virLogPriority priority,
                    const char *str)
 {
-    /*
-     * Be careful when changing the following log message formatting, we rely
-     * on it when stripping libvirt debug messages from qemu log files. So when
-     * changing this, you might also need to change the code there.
-     * virLogFormatString() function name is mentioned there so it's sufficient
-     * to just grep for it to find the right place.
-     */
     if ((funcname != NULL)) {
         *msg = g_strdup_printf("%llu: %s : %s:%d : %s\n",
                                virThreadSelfID(), virLogPriorityString(priority),