diff --git a/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh b/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh
index b0336458d0a..2b1e2c34f9e 100755
--- a/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh
+++ b/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh
@@ -631,6 +631,24 @@ 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 5b6f41fd1a2..c77d46b93fc 100644
--- a/hbase-checkstyle/src/main/resources/hbase/checkstyle.xml
+++ b/hbase-checkstyle/src/main/resources/hbase/checkstyle.xml
@@ -85,12 +85,7 @@
           org.apache.commons.collections4,
           org.apache.commons.lang,
           org.apache.curator.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"/>
+          org.apache.htrace.shaded"/>
     </module>
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