diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base/layouts.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base/layouts.rb
index 5c55e9745e7e8cb0d64d6296839fe84af149d473..365351b421372280c02c00ef42f93eec476e2017 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base/layouts.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base/layouts.rb
@@ -26,9 +26,6 @@ module ActionController
   #   hello world
   #   // The footer part of this layout
   #
-  # NOTE: The old notation for rendering the view from a layout was to expose the magic <tt>@content_for_layout</tt> instance
-  # variable. The preferred notation now is to use <tt>yield</tt>, as documented above.
-  #
   # == Accessing shared variables
   #
   # Layouts have access to variables specified in the content pages and vice versa. This allows you to have layouts with