diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx53.c b/drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx53.c
index 64c9cbe2a5df..46a9572f3473 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx53.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx53.c
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/io.h>
-#include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/of.h>
 #include <linux/of_device.h>
 #include <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h>
@@ -478,12 +477,3 @@ static int __init imx53_pinctrl_init(void)
 	return platform_driver_register(&imx53_pinctrl_driver);
 }
 arch_initcall(imx53_pinctrl_init);
-
-static void __exit imx53_pinctrl_exit(void)
-{
-	platform_driver_unregister(&imx53_pinctrl_driver);
-}
-module_exit(imx53_pinctrl_exit);
-MODULE_AUTHOR("Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng@linaro.org>");
-MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Freescale IMX53 pinctrl driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");