diff --git a/include/linux/limits.h b/include/linux/limits.h
index c4b4e579c01d..2d0f94162fb3 100644
--- a/include/linux/limits.h
+++ b/include/linux/limits.h
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 
 #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 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 */