diff --git a/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh b/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh
index 2b1e2c34f9e..b0336458d0a 100755
--- a/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh
+++ b/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh
@@ -631,24 +631,6 @@ function hbaseanti_patchfile
     ((result=result+1))
   fi
 
-  warnings=$(${GREP} -c 'import org.apache.hadoop.classification' "${patchfile}")
-  if [[ ${warnings} -gt 0 ]]; then
-    add_vote_table -1 hbaseanti "" "The patch appears use Hadoop classification instead of HBase."
-    ((result=result+1))
-  fi
-
-  warnings=$(${GREP} -c 'import org.codehaus.jackson' "${patchfile}")
-  if [[ ${warnings} -gt 0 ]]; then
-    add_vote_table -1 hbaseanti "" "The patch appears use Jackson 1 classes/annotations."
-    ((result=result+1))
-  fi
-
-  warnings=$(${GREP} -cE 'org.apache.commons.logging.Log(Factory|;)' "${patchfile}")
-  if [[ ${warnings} -gt 0 ]]; then
-    add_vote_table -1 hbaseanti "" "The patch appears to use commons-logging instead of slf4j."
-    ((result=result+1))
-  fi
-
   if [[ ${result} -gt 0 ]]; then
     return 1
   fi
diff --git a/hbase-checkstyle/src/main/resources/hbase/checkstyle.xml b/hbase-checkstyle/src/main/resources/hbase/checkstyle.xml
index c77d46b93fc..5b6f41fd1a2 100644
--- a/hbase-checkstyle/src/main/resources/hbase/checkstyle.xml
+++ b/hbase-checkstyle/src/main/resources/hbase/checkstyle.xml
@@ -85,7 +85,12 @@
           org.apache.commons.collections4,
           org.apache.commons.lang,
           org.apache.curator.shaded,
-          org.apache.htrace.shaded"/>
+          org.apache.hadoop.classification,
+          org.apache.htrace.shaded,
+          org.codehaus.jackson"/>
+      <property name="illegalClasses" value="
+          org.apache.commons.logging.Log,
+          org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory"/>
     </module>
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