Merge branch 'release-v1.2.0' into develop

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/docs/sample_config.yaml b/docs/sample_config.yaml
index 5b804d16a4..0a96197ca6 100644
--- a/docs/sample_config.yaml
+++ b/docs/sample_config.yaml
@@ -1422,18 +1422,8 @@ opentracing:
     #enabled: true
 
     # The list of homeservers we wish to send and receive span contexts and span baggage.
-    #
-    # Though it's mostly safe to send and receive span contexts to and from
-    # untrusted users since span contexts are usually opaque ids it can lead to
-    # two problems, namely:
-    # - If the span context is marked as sampled by the sending homeserver the receiver will
-    # sample it. Therefore two homeservers with wildly disparaging sampling policies
-    # could incur higher sampling counts than intended.
-    # - Span baggage can be arbitrary data. For safety this has been disabled in synapse
-    # but that doesn't prevent another server sending you baggage which will be logged
-    # to opentracing logs.
-    #
-    # This a list of regexes which are matched against the server_name of the
+    # See docs/opentracing.rst
+    # This is a list of regexes which are matched against the server_name of the
     # homeserver.
     #
     # By defult, it is empty, so no servers are matched.