diff --git a/plugins/ntp/ntp_packets b/plugins/ntp/ntp_packets
index f452926c..9251d2da 100755
--- a/plugins/ntp/ntp_packets
+++ b/plugins/ntp/ntp_packets
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ stats = dict()
 stats_output = subprocess.check_output([cmd, '-c', 'iostats', '-c', 'sysstats'],
                                        universal_newlines=True).splitlines()
 
+# Split the cmd output into key/value pairs
+# Lines that can't be splitted into 2 individual elements by delimiter ':' will be skipped
 for line in stats_output:
     if len(line.split(':')) == 2:
         stats[line.split(':')[0]] = int(line.split(':')[1])