diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index f90f705355e8b4..a00bca8627e150 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -2794,15 +2794,6 @@ int mingw_socket(int domain, int type, int protocol)
 	ensure_socket_initialization();
 	s = WSASocket(domain, type, protocol, NULL, 0, 0);
 	if (s == INVALID_SOCKET) {
-		/*
-		 * WSAGetLastError() values are regular BSD error codes
-		 * biased by WSABASEERR.
-		 * However, strerror() does not know about networking
-		 * specific errors, which are values beginning at 38 or so.
-		 * Therefore, we choose to leave the biased error code
-		 * in errno so that _if_ someone looks up the code somewhere,
-		 * then it is at least the number that are usually listed.
-		 */
 		set_wsa_errno();
 		return -1;
 	}