diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/examples/third-party-resources/apis/tpr/v1/register.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/examples/third-party-resources/apis/tpr/v1/register.go
index 2dd196a4f0a..201310fef46 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/examples/third-party-resources/apis/tpr/v1/register.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/examples/third-party-resources/apis/tpr/v1/register.go
@@ -27,25 +27,18 @@ var (
 	AddToScheme   = SchemeBuilder.AddToScheme
 )
 
-// GroupName is the group name use in this package
+// GroupName is the group name use in this package.
 const GroupName = "tpr.client-go.k8s.io"
 
-// SchemeGroupVersion is group version used to register these objects
+// SchemeGroupVersion is the group version used to register these objects.
 var SchemeGroupVersion = schema.GroupVersion{Group: GroupName, Version: "v1"}
 
-// Resource takes an unqualified resource and returns a Group qualified GroupResource
+// Resource takes an unqualified resource and returns a Group-qualified GroupResource.
 func Resource(resource string) schema.GroupResource {
 	return SchemeGroupVersion.WithResource(resource).GroupResource()
 }
 
-func init() {
-	// We only register manually written functions here. The registration of the
-	// generated functions takes place in the generated files. The separation
-	// makes the code compile even when the generated files are missing.
-	SchemeBuilder.Register(addKnownTypes)
-}
-
-// Adds the list of known types to api.Scheme.
+// addKnownTypes adds the set of types defined in this package to the supplied scheme.
 func addKnownTypes(scheme *runtime.Scheme) error {
 	scheme.AddKnownTypes(SchemeGroupVersion,
 		&Example{},