diff --git a/Shorewall/Perl/Shorewall/Config.pm b/Shorewall/Perl/Shorewall/Config.pm
index 383489465..4a67715de 100644
--- a/Shorewall/Perl/Shorewall/Config.pm
+++ b/Shorewall/Perl/Shorewall/Config.pm
@@ -1662,7 +1662,7 @@ sub close_file() {
 sub have_capability( $ );
 
 #
-# Report an error from process_conditional() -- the first argument is the linenumber
+# Report an error from process_conditional()
 #
 sub cond_error( $$$ ) {
     $currentfilename   = $_[1];