2 files changed, 1 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
index cca46b1a0f6c..c313d71324b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
@@ -48,11 +48,6 @@ KCONFIG_OVERWRITECONFIG
 If you set KCONFIG_OVERWRITECONFIG in the environment, Kconfig will not
 break symlinks when .config is a symlink to somewhere else.
 
-KCONFIG_NOTIMESTAMP
---------------------------------------------------
-If this environment variable exists and is non-null, the timestamp line
-in generated .config files is omitted.
-
 ______________________________________________________________________
 Environment variables for '{allyes/allmod/allno/rand}config'
 
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
index 834eecb010ba..2bafd9a7c8da 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
@@ -560,8 +560,6 @@ int conf_write(const char *name)
         const char *basename;
         const char *str;
         char dirname[PATH_MAX+1], tmpname[PATH_MAX+1], newname[PATH_MAX+1];
-        time_t now;
-        int use_timestamp = 1;
         char *env;
 
         dirname[0] = 0;
@@ -598,19 +596,11 @@ int conf_write(const char *name)
         if (!out)
                 return 1;
 
-        time(&now);
-        env = getenv("KCONFIG_NOTIMESTAMP");
-        if (env && *env)
-                use_timestamp = 0;
-
         fprintf(out, _("#\n"
                        "# Automatically generated make config: don't edit\n"
                        "# %s\n"
-                       "%s%s"
                        "#\n"),
-                     rootmenu.prompt->text,
-                     use_timestamp ? "# " : "",
-                     use_timestamp ? ctime(&now) : "");
+                     rootmenu.prompt->text);
 
         if (!conf_get_changed())
                 sym_clear_all_valid();