diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
index ef3a04fcad655f2efd9989f9b810314233c90bee..dddf52e768d6f6b6f7a1a00b317c1ce354e27fd5 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
@@ -600,10 +600,6 @@ flags can be ORed together and are:
 
 One or both of these flags must be present.
 
-- DMA_MEMORY_INCLUDES_CHILDREN - make the declared memory be allocated by
-  dma_alloc_coherent of any child devices of this one (for memory residing
-  on a bridge).
-
 - DMA_MEMORY_EXCLUSIVE - only allocate memory from the declared regions.
   Do not allow dma_alloc_coherent() to fall back to system memory when
   it's out of memory in the declared region.
diff --git a/drivers/base/dma-coherent.c b/drivers/base/dma-coherent.c
index 1c152aed6b8265409a0ab2a677ce4bd0a99d62a9..6f6dc4d41788bcb827fdf310aebc96711f477146 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dma-coherent.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dma-coherent.c
@@ -109,8 +109,6 @@ static int dma_assign_coherent_memory(struct device *dev,
 		return -EBUSY;
 
 	dev->dma_mem = mem;
-	/* FIXME: this routine just ignores DMA_MEMORY_INCLUDES_CHILDREN */
-
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index ad843eb02ae7be21ae7470c6cc840a30a3f6e272..48e86ce9fac80ff335f34411983a33344c57f000 100644
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -451,9 +451,6 @@ static struct port_buffer *alloc_buf(struct virtqueue *vq, size_t buf_size,
 		 * device is created by remoteproc, the DMA memory is
 		 * associated with the grandparent device:
 		 * vdev => rproc => platform-dev.
-		 * The code here would have been less quirky if
-		 * DMA_MEMORY_INCLUDES_CHILDREN had been supported
-		 * in dma-coherent.c
 		 */
 		if (!vq->vdev->dev.parent || !vq->vdev->dev.parent->parent)
 			goto free_buf;
diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
index 4c98cc96971f0e1c057695212ef29de78493add1..abf369b11f5467b9bbe4782594b792099967ba88 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
@@ -696,8 +696,7 @@ static inline int dma_get_cache_alignment(void)
 /* flags for the coherent memory api */
 #define	DMA_MEMORY_MAP			0x01
 #define DMA_MEMORY_IO			0x02
-#define DMA_MEMORY_INCLUDES_CHILDREN	0x04
-#define DMA_MEMORY_EXCLUSIVE		0x08
+#define DMA_MEMORY_EXCLUSIVE		0x04
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
 int dma_declare_coherent_memory(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t phys_addr,