diff --git a/sys/dev/nxge/xgehal/xgehal-device.c b/sys/dev/nxge/xgehal/xgehal-device.c
index 10cd5f31041..b211c04811c 100644
--- a/sys/dev/nxge/xgehal/xgehal-device.c
+++ b/sys/dev/nxge/xgehal/xgehal-device.c
@@ -3321,7 +3321,6 @@ __hal_update_bimodal(xge_hal_device_t *hldev, int ring_no)
 	iwl_txcnt = (hldev->irq_workload_txcnt[ring_no] ?
 	                 hldev->irq_workload_txcnt[ring_no] : 1);
 	iwl_cnt = iwl_rxcnt + iwl_txcnt;
-	iwl_cnt = iwl_cnt; /* just to remove the lint warning */
 
 	/*
 	 * we need to take hldev->config.isr_polling_cnt into account