diff --git a/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextSimpleDocValuesFormat.java b/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextSimpleDocValuesFormat.java
index 4cf9884c784..72960ae601a 100644
--- a/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextSimpleDocValuesFormat.java
+++ b/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextSimpleDocValuesFormat.java
@@ -356,7 +356,6 @@ public class SimpleTextSimpleDocValuesFormat extends SimpleDocValuesFormat {
     final Map<String,OneField> fields = new HashMap<String,OneField>();
     
     SimpleTextDocValuesReader(FieldInfos fieldInfos, Directory dir, SegmentInfo si, IOContext context) throws IOException {
-      super(si.getDocCount());
       System.out.println("dir=" + dir + " seg=" + si.name);
       data = dir.openInput(IndexFileNames.segmentFileName(si.name, "", "dat"), context);
       maxDoc = si.getDocCount();
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/SimpleDVProducer.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/SimpleDVProducer.java
index 4651f383798..0781a855336 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/SimpleDVProducer.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/SimpleDVProducer.java
@@ -24,17 +24,9 @@ import org.apache.lucene.index.BinaryDocValues;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.FieldInfo;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.NumericDocValues;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.SortedDocValues;
-import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
 
 public abstract class SimpleDVProducer implements Closeable {
 
-  private final int maxDoc;
-
-  protected SimpleDVProducer(int maxDoc) {
-    // nocommit kinda messy?
-    this.maxDoc = maxDoc;
-  }
-
   public abstract NumericDocValues getNumeric(FieldInfo field) throws IOException;
 
   public abstract BinaryDocValues getBinary(FieldInfo field) throws IOException;