diff --git a/src/mem/tport.cc b/src/mem/tport.cc
index f8850df6c..0656f6d82 100644
--- a/src/mem/tport.cc
+++ b/src/mem/tport.cc
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ SimpleTimingPort::recvTiming(PacketPtr pkt)
     // code to hanldle nacks here, but I'm pretty sure it didn't work
     // correctly with the drain code, so that would need to be fixed
     // if we ever added it back.
-    //assert(pkt->isRequest());
 
     if (pkt->memInhibitAsserted()) {
         // snooper will supply based on copy of packet