diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 420411d894b0383c1fcc52794de46bc1735f625b..2e28bba057cd9a2141514c4f1acfa75353c242df 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Before contributing please remember to run:
 ```
 
 This will check all C/C++ files in the tree for style issues. To check C++
-files you have to have clang-format version 6.0, otherwise they will be
+files you have to have clang-format version 9.0, otherwise they will be
 skipped. If you want to run this target automatically at build time, you can
 pass CSTYLEON=1 to make. If you want cstyle to be run, but not fail the build,
 pass CSTYLEON=2 to make.
diff --git a/utils/style_check.sh b/utils/style_check.sh
index c9d44e2a7b76692e402335ef5e6b09dbaa046a95..37a09b9ac453256d6ecf021080f410ca0cd6af5c 100755
--- a/utils/style_check.sh
+++ b/utils/style_check.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
-# Copyright 2016-2020, Intel Corporation
+# Copyright 2016-2022, Intel Corporation
 #
 # utils/style_check.sh -- common style checking script
 #
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ CLANG_ARGS=()
 FLAKE8_ARGS=()
 CHECK_TYPE=$1
 
+# When updating, please search for all references to "clang-format" and update
+# them as well; at this time these are CONTRIBUTING.md src/common.inc and
+# docker images.
 [ -z "$clang_format_bin" ] && which clang-format-9 >/dev/null &&
 	clang_format_bin=clang-format-9
 [ -z "$clang_format_bin" ] && which clang-format >/dev/null &&