diff --git a/include/linux/soundwire/sdw_registers.h b/include/linux/soundwire/sdw_registers.h
index 5d3c271af7d1..f420e8059779 100644
--- a/include/linux/soundwire/sdw_registers.h
+++ b/include/linux/soundwire/sdw_registers.h
@@ -4,13 +4,6 @@
 #ifndef __SDW_REGISTERS_H
 #define __SDW_REGISTERS_H
 
-/*
- * typically we define register and shifts but if one observes carefully,
- * the shift can be generated from MASKS using few bit primitaives like ffs
- * etc, so we use that and avoid defining shifts
- */
-#define SDW_REG_SHIFT(n)			(ffs(n) - 1)
-
 /*
  * SDW registers as defined by MIPI 1.2 Spec
  */