diff --git a/fs/proc/Makefile b/fs/proc/Makefile
index fef524410e86..63d965193b22 100644
--- a/fs/proc/Makefile
+++ b/fs/proc/Makefile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ proc-y			:= nommu.o task_nommu.o
 proc-$(CONFIG_MMU)	:= mmu.o task_mmu.o
 
 proc-y       += inode.o root.o base.o generic.o array.o \
-		proc_tty.o proc_misc.o
+		proc_tty.o
 proc-y	+= cmdline.o
 proc-y	+= cpuinfo.o
 proc-y	+= devices.o
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c b/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
deleted file mode 100644
index e2db35006c05..000000000000
--- a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-/*
- *  linux/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
- *
- *  linux/fs/proc/array.c
- *  Copyright (C) 1992  by Linus Torvalds
- *  based on ideas by Darren Senn
- *
- *  This used to be the part of array.c. See the rest of history and credits
- *  there. I took this into a separate file and switched the thing to generic
- *  proc_file_inode_operations, leaving in array.c only per-process stuff.
- *  Inumbers allocation made dynamic (via create_proc_entry()).  AV, May 1999.
- *
- * Changes:
- * Fulton Green      :  Encapsulated position metric calculations.
- *			<kernel@FultonGreen.com>
- */
-
-#include <linux/types.h>
-#include <linux/errno.h>
-#include <linux/time.h>
-#include <linux/kernel.h>
-#include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
-#include <linux/fs.h>
-#include <linux/tty.h>
-#include <linux/string.h>
-#include <linux/mman.h>
-#include <linux/quicklist.h>
-#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
-#include <linux/ioport.h>
-#include <linux/mm.h>
-#include <linux/mmzone.h>
-#include <linux/pagemap.h>
-#include <linux/irq.h>
-#include <linux/interrupt.h>
-#include <linux/swap.h>
-#include <linux/slab.h>
-#include <linux/genhd.h>
-#include <linux/smp.h>
-#include <linux/signal.h>
-#include <linux/module.h>
-#include <linux/init.h>
-#include <linux/seq_file.h>
-#include <linux/times.h>
-#include <linux/profile.h>
-#include <linux/utsname.h>
-#include <linux/blkdev.h>
-#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
-#include <linux/jiffies.h>
-#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
-#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
-#include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
-#include <linux/bootmem.h>
-#include <asm/uaccess.h>
-#include <asm/pgtable.h>
-#include <asm/io.h>
-#include <asm/tlb.h>
-#include <asm/div64.h>
-#include "internal.h"
-
-void __init proc_misc_init(void)
-{
-	proc_symlink("mounts", NULL, "self/mounts");
-
-	/* And now for trickier ones */
-}
diff --git a/fs/proc/root.c b/fs/proc/root.c
index 2a3abd25b30b..7761602af9de 100644
--- a/fs/proc/root.c
+++ b/fs/proc/root.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ void __init proc_root_init(void)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	proc_misc_init();
+	proc_symlink("mounts", NULL, "self/mounts");
 
 	proc_net_init();
 
diff --git a/include/linux/proc_fs.h b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
index 9d8308905053..b8bdb96eff78 100644
--- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ struct vmcore {
 extern spinlock_t proc_subdir_lock;
 
 extern void proc_root_init(void);
-extern void proc_misc_init(void);
 
 void proc_flush_task(struct task_struct *task);
 struct dentry *proc_pid_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry * dentry, struct nameidata *);