diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
index 1dc545a274..f477d385a5 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
@@ -239,11 +239,6 @@
       <artifactId>avro</artifactId>
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
-      <artifactId>avro-ipc</artifactId>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>net.sf.kosmosfs</groupId>
       <artifactId>kfs</artifactId>
@@ -282,7 +277,6 @@
             <phase>generate-test-sources</phase>
             <goals>
               <goal>schema</goal>
-              <goal>protocol</goal>
             </goals>
           </execution>
         </executions>
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/avro/AvroSpecificTestProtocol.avpr b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/avro/AvroSpecificTestProtocol.avpr
deleted file mode 100644
index 18960c1de4..0000000000
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/avro/AvroSpecificTestProtocol.avpr
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-// distributed with this work for additional information
-// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-{
-  "protocol" : "AvroSpecificTestProtocol",
-  "namespace" : "org.apache.hadoop.ipc",
-
-  "messages" : {
-    "echo" : {
-      "request" : [ {
-        "name" : "message",
-        "type" : "string"
-      } ],
-      "response" : "string"
-    },
-    
-    "add" : {
-      "request" : [ {
-        "name" : "arg1",
-        "type" : "int"
-      }, {
-        "name" : "arg2",
-        "type" : "int",
-        "default" : 0
-      } ],
-      "response" : "int"
-    }
-  }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 7e10b82d5c..7263a9e340 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -402,11 +402,6 @@
         <artifactId>avro</artifactId>
         <version>1.5.3</version>
       </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
-        <artifactId>avro-ipc</artifactId>
-        <version>1.5.3</version>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>net.sf.kosmosfs</groupId>
         <artifactId>kfs</artifactId>