diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index a6a99379fa51..7c4863ad904b 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 199050ea1ff2270174ee525b73bc4c3323098897
+refs/heads/master: c7d0c941ae7f82940a13f785be70dc3097d96687
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/md/md.c b/trunk/drivers/md/md.c
index 45e255d4916f..1442761ac98e 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -4300,9 +4300,6 @@ static int hot_remove_disk(mddev_t * mddev, dev_t dev)
 	char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
 	mdk_rdev_t *rdev;
 
-	if (!mddev->pers)
-		return -ENODEV;
-
 	rdev = find_rdev(mddev, dev);
 	if (!rdev)
 		return -ENXIO;