diff --git a/kernel/thread_abort.c b/kernel/thread_abort.c
index 152962ebf38..6500827a158 100644
--- a/kernel/thread_abort.c
+++ b/kernel/thread_abort.c
@@ -42,14 +42,6 @@ void z_impl_k_thread_abort(k_tid_t thread)
 
 		z_swap(&lock, k_spin_lock(&lock));
 	} else {
-		/* Really, there's no good reason for this to be a
-		 * scheduling point if we aren't aborting _current (by
-		 * definition, no higher priority thread is runnable,
-		 * because we're running!).  But it always has been
-		 * and is thus part of our API, and we have tests that
-		 * rely on k_thread_abort() scheduling out of
-		 * cooperative threads.
-		 */
 		z_reschedule_unlocked();
 	}
 }