diff --git a/src/ci/docker/host-x86_64/dist-i686-linux/Dockerfile b/src/ci/docker/host-x86_64/dist-i686-linux/Dockerfile
index 1ed02a75fcf..cd86d9fb584 100644
--- a/src/ci/docker/host-x86_64/dist-i686-linux/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/ci/docker/host-x86_64/dist-i686-linux/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # We document platform support for minimum glibc 2.17 and kernel 3.2.
-# CentOS 7 has kernel 3.10, but that's not as important as matching the glibc version.
+# CentOS 7 has headers for kernel 3.10, but that's fine as long as we don't
+# actually use newer APIs in rustc or std without a fallback. It's more
+# important that we match glibc for ELF symbol versioning.
 FROM centos:7
 
 WORKDIR /build
diff --git a/src/ci/docker/host-x86_64/dist-x86_64-linux/Dockerfile b/src/ci/docker/host-x86_64/dist-x86_64-linux/Dockerfile
index a33af533189..973c43072bf 100644
--- a/src/ci/docker/host-x86_64/dist-x86_64-linux/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/ci/docker/host-x86_64/dist-x86_64-linux/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # We document platform support for minimum glibc 2.17 and kernel 3.2.
-# CentOS 7 has kernel 3.10, but that's not as important as matching the glibc version.
+# CentOS 7 has headers for kernel 3.10, but that's fine as long as we don't
+# actually use newer APIs in rustc or std without a fallback. It's more
+# important that we match glibc for ELF symbol versioning.
 FROM centos:7
 
 WORKDIR /build