diff --git a/tests/test_pretrain.py b/tests/test_pretrain.py
index 9a3e11624c..61c67608af 100644
--- a/tests/test_pretrain.py
+++ b/tests/test_pretrain.py
@@ -69,9 +69,7 @@ def test_pretrain(_, tmp_path):
 # Set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES for FSDP hybrid-shard, if fewer GPUs are used than are available
 @mock.patch.dict(os.environ, {"CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES": "0,1"})
 @mock.patch("litgpt.pretrain.L.Fabric.load_raw")
-# If we were to use `save_hyperparameters()`, we would have to patch `sys.argv` or otherwise
-# the CLI would capture pytest args, but unfortunately patching would mess with subprocess
-# launching, so we need to mock `save_hyperparameters()`
+# See comment in `test_pretrain` why we need to mock `save_hyperparameters()`
 @mock.patch("litgpt.pretrain.save_hyperparameters")
 def test_initial_checkpoint_dir(_, load_mock, tmp_path):
     model_config = Config(block_size=2, n_layer=2, n_embd=8, n_head=4, padded_vocab_size=8)