diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c
index 1bc0c74f2755d1c3bbf8264c01a27dbd208ce227..98f1d4e559818c723b79cb6f5278b97f0ebd17a7 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/video.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -807,40 +807,11 @@ static void acpi_video_bus_find_cap(struct acpi_video_bus *video)
 static int acpi_video_bus_check(struct acpi_video_bus *video)
 {
 	acpi_status status = -ENOENT;
-	long device_id;
-	struct device *dev;
-	struct acpi_device *device;
+
 
 	if (!video)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	device = video->device;
-
-	status =
-	    acpi_evaluate_integer(device->handle, "_ADR", NULL, &device_id);
-
-	if (!ACPI_SUCCESS(status))
-		return -ENODEV;
-
-	/* We need to attempt to determine whether the _ADR refers to a
-	   PCI device or not. There's no terribly good way to do this,
-	   so the best we can hope for is to assume that there'll never
-	   be a video device in the host bridge */
-	if (device_id >= 0x10000) {
-		/* It looks like a PCI device. Does it exist? */
-		dev = acpi_get_physical_device(device->handle);
-	} else {
-		/* It doesn't look like a PCI device. Does its parent
-		   exist? */
-		acpi_handle phandle;
-		if (acpi_get_parent(device->handle, &phandle))
-			return -ENODEV;
-		dev = acpi_get_physical_device(phandle);
-	}
-	if (!dev)
-		return -ENODEV;
-	put_device(dev);
-
 	/* Since there is no HID, CID and so on for VGA driver, we have
 	 * to check well known required nodes.
 	 */