diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
index 3a941744f06..72d20475040 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
@@ -858,10 +858,6 @@ struct drbd_bitmap; /* opaque for drbd_conf */
 
 /* THINK maybe we actually want to use the default "event/%s" worker threads
  * or similar in linux 2.6, which uses per cpu data and threads.
- *
- * To be general, this might need a spin_lock member.
- * For now, please use the mdev->req_lock to protect list_head,
- * see drbd_queue_work below.
  */
 struct drbd_work_queue {
 	struct list_head q;
@@ -1894,13 +1890,6 @@ static inline sector_t drbd_md_ss__(struct drbd_conf *mdev,
 	}
 }
 
-static inline void
-_drbd_queue_work(struct drbd_work_queue *q, struct drbd_work *w)
-{
-	list_add_tail(&w->list, &q->q);
-	up(&q->s);
-}
-
 static inline void
 drbd_queue_work_front(struct drbd_work_queue *q, struct drbd_work *w)
 {