diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yml b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
index a8e56b87..80400482 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
@@ -73,5 +73,5 @@ jobs:
           python-version: "3.x"
       - name: Run pylint
         run: |
-            pip install pylint==2.8.2
+            pip install pylint==2.10.2
             pylint plugins --disable=import-error
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index c4705358..9ad47baa 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ repos:
   hooks:
   - id: pydocstyle
 - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/pylint
-  rev: v2.9.5
+  rev: v2.10.2
   hooks:
   - id: pylint
     args:
diff --git a/plugins/module_utils/ansible_freeipa_module.py b/plugins/module_utils/ansible_freeipa_module.py
index 4b3884a9..e8d62e28 100644
--- a/plugins/module_utils/ansible_freeipa_module.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/ansible_freeipa_module.py
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ else:
     try:
         from collections.abc import Mapping  # noqa
     except ImportError:
-        from collections import Mapping  # noqa
+        from collections import Mapping  # pylint: disable=deprecated-class
 
     if six.PY3:
         unicode = str
diff --git a/plugins/modules/ipaautomountlocation.py b/plugins/modules/ipaautomountlocation.py
index c88578b2..44748c0e 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/ipaautomountlocation.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/ipaautomountlocation.py
@@ -78,15 +78,14 @@ class AutomountLocation(FreeIPABaseModule):
     ipa_param_mapping = {}
 
     def get_location(self, location):
-        response = dict()
         try:
             response = self.api_command("automountlocation_show",
                                         location,
                                         {})
         except ipalib_errors.NotFound:
-            pass
-
-        return response.get("result", None)
+            return None
+        else:
+            return response.get("result", None)
 
     def check_ipa_params(self):
         if len(self.ipa_params.name) == 0:
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 4384655f..b1e4d0a7 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 ipdb
 pre-commit
 flake8-bugbear
+pylint==2.10.2
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index a470e2f9..f4462241 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ ignore = D1,D212,D203
 
 [pylint.MASTER]
 disable =
+    unspecified-encoding, # open() does not provide `encoding` in Python2
+    use-maxsplit-arg,
+    redundant-u-string-prefix,
     c-extension-no-member,
     missing-module-docstring,
     missing-class-docstring,