diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sdvo.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sdvo.c
index 960358d8e3369764b7a1e74be83ed5b2d19c81d3..ac923b74924a77045c06cb65ef588f888849b76f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sdvo.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sdvo.c
@@ -2850,7 +2850,6 @@ bool intel_sdvo_init(struct drm_device *dev, uint32_t sdvo_reg, bool is_sdvob)
 	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
 	struct intel_encoder *intel_encoder;
 	struct intel_sdvo *intel_sdvo;
-	u32 hotplug_mask;
 	int i;
 	intel_sdvo = kzalloc(sizeof(struct intel_sdvo), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!intel_sdvo)
@@ -2879,18 +2878,6 @@ bool intel_sdvo_init(struct drm_device *dev, uint32_t sdvo_reg, bool is_sdvob)
 		}
 	}
 
-	hotplug_mask = 0;
-	if (IS_G4X(dev)) {
-		hotplug_mask = intel_sdvo->is_sdvob ?
-			SDVOB_HOTPLUG_INT_STATUS_G4X : SDVOC_HOTPLUG_INT_STATUS_G4X;
-	} else if (IS_GEN4(dev)) {
-		hotplug_mask = intel_sdvo->is_sdvob ?
-			SDVOB_HOTPLUG_INT_STATUS_I965 : SDVOC_HOTPLUG_INT_STATUS_I965;
-	} else {
-		hotplug_mask = intel_sdvo->is_sdvob ?
-			SDVOB_HOTPLUG_INT_STATUS_I915 : SDVOC_HOTPLUG_INT_STATUS_I915;
-	}
-
 	/* Only enable the hotplug irq if we need it, to work around noisy
 	 * hotplug lines.
 	 */