diff --git a/include/asm-microblaze/byteorder.h b/include/asm-microblaze/byteorder.h
index 51cacb048b6ed6078d5c716f3112c11efacce2c3..a4a75b7a6dc78d3aa850ceff6ecadd55899349d7 100644
--- a/include/asm-microblaze/byteorder.h
+++ b/include/asm-microblaze/byteorder.h
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@
 
    I think this is a symptom of a bug in mb-gcc.  JW 20040303
 */
-static __inline__ __const__ __u16 ___arch__swab16 (__u16 half_word)
+
+
+static __inline__ __u16 ___arch__swab16 (__u16 half_word)
 {
 	/* 32 bit temp to cast result, forcing clearing of high word */
 	__u32 temp;