diff --git a/docs/plugin-protocol/tfplugin6.1.proto b/docs/plugin-protocol/tfplugin6.1.proto
index e8912cd0b..3f6dead35 100644
--- a/docs/plugin-protocol/tfplugin6.1.proto
+++ b/docs/plugin-protocol/tfplugin6.1.proto
@@ -128,6 +128,9 @@ message Schema {
 
         repeated Attribute attributes = 1;
         NestingMode nesting = 3;
+
+        // MinItems and MaxItems were never used in the protocol, and have no
+        // effect on validation.
         int64 min_items = 4 [deprecated = true];
         int64 max_items = 5 [deprecated = true];
     }
diff --git a/internal/tfplugin6/tfplugin6.pb.go b/internal/tfplugin6/tfplugin6.pb.go
index d3152b355..d73ab55ec 100644
--- a/internal/tfplugin6/tfplugin6.pb.go
+++ b/internal/tfplugin6/tfplugin6.pb.go
@@ -1480,6 +1480,9 @@ type Schema_Object struct {
 
 	Attributes []*Schema_Attribute       `protobuf:"bytes,1,rep,name=attributes,proto3" json:"attributes,omitempty"`
 	Nesting    Schema_Object_NestingMode `protobuf:"varint,3,opt,name=nesting,proto3,enum=tfplugin6.Schema_Object_NestingMode" json:"nesting,omitempty"`
+	// MinItems and MaxItems were never used in the protocol, and have no
+	// effect on validation.
+	//
 	// Deprecated: Do not use.
 	MinItems int64 `protobuf:"varint,4,opt,name=min_items,json=minItems,proto3" json:"min_items,omitempty"`
 	// Deprecated: Do not use.