diff --git a/block/partitions/core.c b/block/partitions/core.c
index 1a7558917c47d..22a0dab17ed34 100644
--- a/block/partitions/core.c
+++ b/block/partitions/core.c
@@ -544,10 +544,6 @@ int blk_drop_partitions(struct block_device *bdev)
 
 	return 0;
 }
-#ifdef CONFIG_S390
-/* for historic reasons in the DASD driver */
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_drop_partitions);
-#endif
 
 static bool blk_add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev,
 		struct parsed_partitions *state, int p)
diff --git a/drivers/s390/block/dasd_genhd.c b/drivers/s390/block/dasd_genhd.c
index a9698fba9b76c..8d6587ec73e20 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/block/dasd_genhd.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/block/dasd_genhd.c
@@ -146,12 +146,11 @@ void dasd_destroy_partitions(struct dasd_block *block)
 	block->bdev = NULL;
 
 	mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
-	blk_drop_partitions(bdev);
+	bdev_disk_changed(bdev, true);
 	mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
 
 	/* Matching blkdev_put to the blkdev_get in dasd_scan_partitions. */
 	blkdev_put(bdev, FMODE_READ);
-	set_capacity(block->gdp, 0);
 }
 
 int dasd_gendisk_init(void)