diff --git a/configs/mx53ppd_defconfig b/configs/mx53ppd_defconfig
index d321a777b0..8fb512651f 100644
--- a/configs/mx53ppd_defconfig
+++ b/configs/mx53ppd_defconfig
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ CONFIG_CMD_EXT4=y
 CONFIG_CMD_EXT4_WRITE=y
 CONFIG_CMD_FAT=y
 CONFIG_CMD_FS_GENERIC=y
-CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT=y
 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT=y
 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_EXT=y
 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_EXT_DEVPART="0:5"
diff --git a/drivers/bootcount/Kconfig b/drivers/bootcount/Kconfig
index d82289f57b..da2ccabf28 100644
--- a/drivers/bootcount/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/bootcount/Kconfig
@@ -4,13 +4,6 @@
 
 menu "Boot count support"
 
-config BOOTCOUNT
-	bool "Enable Boot count support"
-	help
-	  Enable boot count support, which provides the ability to store the
-	  number of times the board has booted on a number of different
-	  persistent storage mediums.
-
 config BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
 	bool "Enable support for checking boot count limit"
 	help
@@ -23,7 +16,7 @@ config SYS_BOOTCOUNT_SINGLEWORD
 	  This option enables packing boot count magic value and boot count
 	  into single word (32 bits).
 
-if BOOTCOUNT
+if BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
 
 config BOOTCOUNT_EXT
 	bool "Boot counter on EXT filesystem"
diff --git a/scripts/config_whitelist.txt b/scripts/config_whitelist.txt
index e8f7c4c66a..b24bd7c6cf 100644
--- a/scripts/config_whitelist.txt
+++ b/scripts/config_whitelist.txt
@@ -149,7 +149,6 @@ CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_ALEN
 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_AM33XX
 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_ENV
 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_I2C
-CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_RAM
 CONFIG_BOOTFILE
 CONFIG_BOOTMAPSZ