diff --git a/include/linux/limits.h b/include/linux/limits.h
index eaf2e099f1257f356264b278711068f25bb8e5f0..c4b4e579c01d5e29a5c1052812940dd16713430c 100644
--- a/include/linux/limits.h
+++ b/include/linux/limits.h
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 #define NGROUPS_MAX    65536	/* supplemental group IDs are available */
 #define ARG_MAX       131072	/* # bytes of args + environ for exec() */
 #define CHILD_MAX        999    /* no limit :-) */
-#define OPEN_MAX         256	/* # open files a process may have */
 #define LINK_MAX         127	/* # links a file may have */
 #define MAX_CANON        255	/* size of the canonical input queue */
 #define MAX_INPUT        255	/* size of the type-ahead buffer */