diff --git a/tests/pylint/pylintrc b/tests/pylint/pylintrc
index a2c45e13edf..c3bd0774e4c 100644
--- a/tests/pylint/pylintrc
+++ b/tests/pylint/pylintrc
@@ -74,10 +74,8 @@ confidence=
 # --enable=similarities". If you want to run only the classes checker, but have
 # no Warning level messages displayed, use "--disable=all --enable=classes
 # --disable=W".
-# TODO: Remove protected access and fix usages. We really want to have it enabled!
 # TODO: Try to remove R (refactoring) or make them smaller.
-disable=protected-access,
-        fixme,
+disable=fixme,
         global-statement,
         unused-argument,
         unused-wildcard-import,