diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 69f2a8e6ccdfa56061893c02e690c73a4c1f2265..f2b30019b1cb4b1f6a2ff2e06f053b3b1c1910c7 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -4501,7 +4501,6 @@ static int do_md_run(mddev_t * mddev)
 	md_wakeup_thread(mddev->sync_thread); /* possibly kick off a reshape */
 
 	revalidate_disk(mddev->gendisk);
-	mddev->changed = 1;
 	md_new_event(mddev);
 	sysfs_notify_dirent(mddev->sysfs_state);
 	if (mddev->sysfs_action)
@@ -4620,7 +4619,7 @@ static int do_md_stop(mddev_t * mddev, int mode, int is_open)
 				}
 
 			set_capacity(disk, 0);
-			mddev->changed = 1;
+			revalidate_disk(disk);
 
 			if (mddev->ro)
 				mddev->ro = 0;
@@ -4686,7 +4685,6 @@ static int do_md_stop(mddev_t * mddev, int mode, int is_open)
 		mddev->sync_speed_min = mddev->sync_speed_max = 0;
 		mddev->recovery = 0;
 		mddev->in_sync = 0;
-		mddev->changed = 0;
 		mddev->degraded = 0;
 		mddev->barriers_work = 0;
 		mddev->safemode = 0;
@@ -5850,7 +5848,6 @@ static int md_open(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode)
 	atomic_inc(&mddev->openers);
 	mutex_unlock(&mddev->open_mutex);
 
-	check_disk_change(bdev);
  out:
 	return err;
 }
@@ -5865,21 +5862,6 @@ static int md_release(struct gendisk *disk, fmode_t mode)
 
 	return 0;
 }
-
-static int md_media_changed(struct gendisk *disk)
-{
-	mddev_t *mddev = disk->private_data;
-
-	return mddev->changed;
-}
-
-static int md_revalidate(struct gendisk *disk)
-{
-	mddev_t *mddev = disk->private_data;
-
-	mddev->changed = 0;
-	return 0;
-}
 static const struct block_device_operations md_fops =
 {
 	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
@@ -5890,8 +5872,6 @@ static const struct block_device_operations md_fops =
 	.compat_ioctl	= md_compat_ioctl,
 #endif
 	.getgeo		= md_getgeo,
-	.media_changed	= md_media_changed,
-	.revalidate_disk= md_revalidate,
 };
 
 static int md_thread(void * arg)
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index e4836c68b73e097e8a3012b3a1ea36e49b8a9d80..3225e25f3c2adcb56980e0e9fc4922aa9ddd0835 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -237,7 +237,6 @@ struct mddev_s
 	atomic_t			active;		/* general refcount */
 	atomic_t			openers;	/* number of active opens */
 
-	int				changed;	/* true if we might need to reread partition info */
 	int				degraded;	/* whether md should consider
 							 * adding a spare
 							 */
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index e277013ac808213b174f0b126084adbffe2f529f..eebce166dafefeebfe2b5f23af641ca9d896847c 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -2184,7 +2184,6 @@ static int raid1_resize(mddev_t *mddev, sector_t sectors)
 	if (mddev->array_sectors > raid1_size(mddev, sectors, 0))
 		return -EINVAL;
 	set_capacity(mddev->gendisk, mddev->array_sectors);
-	mddev->changed = 1;
 	revalidate_disk(mddev->gendisk);
 	if (sectors > mddev->dev_sectors &&
 	    mddev->recovery_cp == MaxSector) {
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index c6ae7c19491585622e8d2d1a89112a74f3ebbb5f..231afda1697f1155c7ea7ac817f5d2edde7e6e33 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -5335,7 +5335,6 @@ static int raid5_resize(mddev_t *mddev, sector_t sectors)
 	    raid5_size(mddev, sectors, mddev->raid_disks))
 		return -EINVAL;
 	set_capacity(mddev->gendisk, mddev->array_sectors);
-	mddev->changed = 1;
 	revalidate_disk(mddev->gendisk);
 	if (sectors > mddev->dev_sectors && mddev->recovery_cp == MaxSector) {
 		mddev->recovery_cp = mddev->dev_sectors;
@@ -5549,7 +5548,6 @@ static void raid5_finish_reshape(mddev_t *mddev)
 		if (mddev->delta_disks > 0) {
 			md_set_array_sectors(mddev, raid5_size(mddev, 0, 0));
 			set_capacity(mddev->gendisk, mddev->array_sectors);
-			mddev->changed = 1;
 			revalidate_disk(mddev->gendisk);
 		} else {
 			int d;