diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/asm/socket.h b/arch/parisc/include/asm/socket.h
index 79feff1b0721..33500c9f6e5e 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/socket.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/socket.h
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 
 #include <uapi/asm/socket.h>
 
-/* O_NONBLOCK clashes with the bits used for socket types.  Therefore we
- * have to define SOCK_NONBLOCK to a different value here.
+/* O_NONBLOCK clashed with the bits used for socket types.  Therefore we
+ * had to define SOCK_NONBLOCK to a different value here.
  */
 #define SOCK_NONBLOCK	0x40000000
 
diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/fcntl.h b/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/fcntl.h
index e19adc65b1d0..03dee816cb13 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/fcntl.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/fcntl.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #define O_LARGEFILE	000004000
 #define __O_SYNC	000100000
 #define O_SYNC		(__O_SYNC|O_DSYNC)
-#define O_NONBLOCK	000200004 /* HPUX has separate NDELAY & NONBLOCK */
+#define O_NONBLOCK	000200000
 #define O_NOCTTY	000400000 /* not fcntl */
 #define O_DSYNC		001000000
 #define O_NOATIME	004000000