diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs_ioctl.h b/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs_ioctl.h
index 45d1165a6ed4..d158cd12a19e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs_ioctl.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs_ioctl.h
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ do {						    \
 #define IOC_LIBCFS_TYPE		   'e'
 #define IOC_LIBCFS_MIN_NR		 30
 /* libcfs ioctls */
-#define IOC_LIBCFS_PANIC		   _IOWR('e', 30, long)
+/* IOC_LIBCFS_PANIC obsolete in 2.8.0, was _IOWR('e', 30, IOCTL_LIBCFS_TYPE) */
 #define IOC_LIBCFS_CLEAR_DEBUG	     _IOWR('e', 31, long)
 #define IOC_LIBCFS_MARK_DEBUG	      _IOWR('e', 32, long)
 #define IOC_LIBCFS_MEMHOG		  _IOWR('e', 36, long)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-module.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-module.c
index 890a4588049d..d801d8770cf7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-module.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-module.c
@@ -141,15 +141,6 @@ static long libcfs_ioctl(struct file *file,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	/* Handle platform-dependent IOC requests */
-	switch (cmd) {
-	case IOC_LIBCFS_PANIC:
-		if (!capable(CFS_CAP_SYS_BOOT))
-			return -EPERM;
-		panic("debugctl-invoked panic");
-		return 0;
-	}
-
 	if (libcfs_psdev_ops.p_ioctl)
 		rc = libcfs_psdev_ops.p_ioctl(&pfile, cmd, (void __user *)arg);
 	else
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/module.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/module.c
index 74b92369ac02..3a88e6447d3b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/module.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/module.c
@@ -145,10 +145,7 @@ static int libcfs_ioctl(struct cfs_psdev_file *pfile, unsigned long cmd,
 	case IOC_LIBCFS_CLEAR_DEBUG:
 		libcfs_debug_clear_buffer();
 		break;
-	/*
-	 * case IOC_LIBCFS_PANIC:
-	 * Handled in arch/cfs_module.c
-	 */
+
 	case IOC_LIBCFS_MARK_DEBUG:
 		if (!data || !data->ioc_inlbuf1 ||
 		    data->ioc_inlbuf1[data->ioc_inllen1 - 1] != '\0') {