diff --git a/sys/conf/options b/sys/conf/options
index 4b28c5839ef4..f20547dda13f 100644
--- a/sys/conf/options
+++ b/sys/conf/options
@@ -230,7 +230,6 @@ NFS4CLIENT	opt_nfs.h
 # legacy RPC implementation instead of the newer KRPC system (which
 # supports modern features such as RPCSEC_GSS
 NFS_LEGACYRPC	opt_nfs.h
-NFS_NEWRPC	opt_nfs.h
 
 # filesystems and libiconv bridge
 CD9660_ICONV	opt_dontuse.h
diff --git a/sys/nfsclient/nfs.h b/sys/nfsclient/nfs.h
index 8e9f121dc5c9..c5b1c518fbd4 100644
--- a/sys/nfsclient/nfs.h
+++ b/sys/nfsclient/nfs.h
@@ -40,10 +40,6 @@
 #include "opt_nfs.h"
 #endif
 
-#if !defined(NFS_NEWRPC) && !defined(NFS_LEGACYRPC)
-#define NFS_LEGACYRPC
-#endif
-
 #include <nfsclient/nfsargs.h>
 
 /*
diff --git a/sys/nfsserver/nfs.h b/sys/nfsserver/nfs.h
index c9dec4c896e9..27093777aea4 100644
--- a/sys/nfsserver/nfs.h
+++ b/sys/nfsserver/nfs.h
@@ -40,10 +40,6 @@
 #include "opt_nfs.h"
 #endif
 
-#if !defined(NFS_NEWRPC) && !defined(NFS_LEGACYRPC)
-#define NFS_LEGACYRPC
-#endif
-
 /*
  * Tunable constants for nfs
  */