diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index bed43081720f..2e6af88d112f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -1717,12 +1717,6 @@ ext4_can_extents_be_merged(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_extent *ex1,
 {
 	unsigned short ext1_ee_len, ext2_ee_len;
 
-	/*
-	 * Make sure that both extents are initialized. We don't merge
-	 * unwritten extents so that we can be sure that end_io code has
-	 * the extent that was written properly split out and conversion to
-	 * initialized is trivial.
-	 */
 	if (ext4_ext_is_unwritten(ex1) != ext4_ext_is_unwritten(ex2))
 		return 0;