diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/dev-support b/hadoop-common-project/dev-support
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--- a/hadoop-common-project/dev-support
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-# 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.
-
-# The number of acceptable warning for this module
-# Please update the root test-patch.properties if you update this file.
-
-OK_RELEASEAUDIT_WARNINGS=0
-OK_FINDBUGS_WARNINGS=0
-OK_JAVADOC_WARNINGS=6
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/dev-support b/hadoop-hdfs-project/dev-support
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-# 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.
-
-# The number of acceptable warning for this module
-# Please update the root test-patch.properties if you update this file.
-
-OK_RELEASEAUDIT_WARNINGS=0
-OK_FINDBUGS_WARNINGS=0
-OK_JAVADOC_WARNINGS=0