diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
index 2ea149435c44..89b7e1a605b8 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
@@ -95,21 +95,6 @@ static inline int is_device_dma_capable(struct device *dev)
 #include <asm-generic/dma-mapping-broken.h>
 #endif
 
-/* for backwards compatibility, removed soon */
-static inline void __deprecated dma_sync_single(struct device *dev,
-						dma_addr_t addr, size_t size,
-						enum dma_data_direction dir)
-{
-	dma_sync_single_for_cpu(dev, addr, size, dir);
-}
-
-static inline void __deprecated dma_sync_sg(struct device *dev,
-					    struct scatterlist *sg, int nelems,
-					    enum dma_data_direction dir)
-{
-	dma_sync_sg_for_cpu(dev, sg, nelems, dir);
-}
-
 static inline u64 dma_get_mask(struct device *dev)
 {
 	if (dev && dev->dma_mask && *dev->dma_mask)