diff --git a/libvips/foreign/tiff2vips.c b/libvips/foreign/tiff2vips.c
index 4fba5886..ad962596 100644
--- a/libvips/foreign/tiff2vips.c
+++ b/libvips/foreign/tiff2vips.c
@@ -1712,7 +1712,7 @@ rtiff_fill_region_unaligned( VipsRegion *out,
 		/* Not necessary, but it stops static analyzers complaining
 		 * about a used-before-set.
 		 */
-		tile.height = 0;
+		hit.height = 0;
 
 		x = 0;
 		while( x < r->width ) { 
@@ -1776,10 +1776,13 @@ rtiff_fill_region_unaligned( VipsRegion *out,
 					q, p, hit.width, rtiff->client );
 			}
 
-			x += tile.width;
+			x += hit.width;
 		}
 
-		y += tile.height;
+		/* This will be the same for all tiles in the row we've just
+		 * done.
+		 */
+		y += hit.height;
 	}
 
 	return( 0 );
diff --git a/libvips/foreign/vips2tiff.c b/libvips/foreign/vips2tiff.c
index 125ab1b6..338a976f 100644
--- a/libvips/foreign/vips2tiff.c
+++ b/libvips/foreign/vips2tiff.c
@@ -250,34 +250,6 @@
 #include "tiff.h"
 
 /* TODO:
- *
- * try:
- *
- * 	vips copy LuCa-7color_Scan1.ome.tiff[n=5] x.tif[pyramid,tile-width=512,tile-height=512,compression=lzw]
- * 	vips copy x.tif[page=1] x.v
- *
- * horizontal stripes in image (page 0 is fine) ... a problem in rewind? it 
- * looks like the stripes are half a tile high
- *
- * try:
- *
- * 	$ vips copy LuCa-7color_Scan1.ome.tiff[subifd=4] x.png
- *	(vips:1284665): VIPS-WARNING **: 13:59:15.555: error in tile 0 x 0
- *	source input: Can not read scanlines from a tiled image
- *	tiff2vips: read error
- *	vips2png: unable to write to target
- *
- * subifd=3 seems to work, curiously ... are some subifds tiled and some
- * striped? how come we don't pick up tile/strip from the subifd?
- *
- * try:
- *
- * 	vips copy test.tif x.tif[page-height=2048,pyramid]
- * 	vips copy x.tif[page=1] x.png
- *
- * test.tif is k2.jpg split into bands and joined top to bottom ... no stripes
- * visible
- *
  *
  * - have a layout enum rather than a bool
  * - revise docs