--- kernel/kexec.c
+++ kernel/kexec.c
@@ -1005,10 +1005,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, unsigned lon
if (flags & KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT)
image->preserve_context = 1;
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_HARDBOOT
- if (flags & KEXEC_HARDBOOT)
- image->hardboot = 1;
-#endif
result = machine_kexec_prepare(image);
if (result)
goto out;