diff --git a/hbase-mapreduce/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/LoadTestTool.java b/hbase-mapreduce/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/LoadTestTool.java
index 56dc5c721a0..1d9b74e9898 100644
--- a/hbase-mapreduce/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/LoadTestTool.java
+++ b/hbase-mapreduce/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/LoadTestTool.java
@@ -142,7 +142,6 @@ public class LoadTestTool extends AbstractHBaseTool {
   protected static final String OPT_SKIP_INIT = "skip_init";
   protected static final String OPT_INIT_ONLY = "init_only";
   protected static final String NUM_TABLES = "num_tables";
-  protected static final String OPT_REGIONS_PER_SERVER = "regions_per_server";
   protected static final String OPT_BATCHUPDATE = "batchupdate";
   protected static final String OPT_UPDATE = "update";
 
@@ -350,10 +349,6 @@ public class LoadTestTool extends AbstractHBaseTool {
           + "tool  will load n table parallely. -tn parameter value becomes "
           + "table name prefix. Each table name is in format <tn>_1...<tn>_n");
 
-    addOptWithArg(OPT_REGIONS_PER_SERVER,
-      "A positive integer number. When a number n is specified, load test "
-          + "tool will create the test table with n regions per server");
-
     addOptWithArg(OPT_ENCRYPTION, OPT_ENCRYPTION_USAGE);
     addOptNoArg(OPT_DEFERRED_LOG_FLUSH, OPT_DEFERRED_LOG_FLUSH_USAGE);
     addOptWithArg(OPT_NUM_REGIONS_PER_SERVER, OPT_NUM_REGIONS_PER_SERVER_USAGE);