diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index a91e40c9ae45..a81ca1b841ec 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -14,12 +14,6 @@
 #include <linux/threads.h>
 #include <asm/machdep.h>
 
-/*
- * Provide a dummy crash_notes definition until crash dump is implemented.
- * This prevents breakage of crash_notes attribute in kernel/ksysfs.c.
- */
-note_buf_t crash_notes[NR_CPUS];
-
 void machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	if (ppc_md.machine_crash_shutdown)