diff --git a/libavcodec/tiffenc.c b/libavcodec/tiffenc.c
index 3b2b82991b945b2bbd8443350832b7c4addb2c19..0aa9740a99c6e462af087510da6c92f3d58b347b 100644
--- a/libavcodec/tiffenc.c
+++ b/libavcodec/tiffenc.c
@@ -231,22 +231,6 @@ static int encode_frame(AVCodecContext * avctx, unsigned char *buf,
     p->key_frame = 1;
     avctx->coded_frame= &s->picture;
 
-#if FF_API_TIFFENC_COMPLEVEL
-    if (avctx->compression_level != FF_COMPRESSION_DEFAULT)
-        av_log(avctx, AV_LOG_WARNING, "Using compression_level to set compression "
-               "algorithm is deprecated. Please use the compression_algo private "
-               "option instead.\n");
-    if (avctx->compression_level == 0) {
-        s->compr = TIFF_RAW;
-    } else if(avctx->compression_level == 2) {
-        s->compr = TIFF_LZW;
-#if CONFIG_ZLIB
-    } else if ((avctx->compression_level >= 3)) {
-        s->compr = TIFF_DEFLATE;
-#endif
-    }
-#endif
-
     s->width = avctx->width;
     s->height = avctx->height;
     s->subsampling[0] = 1;
diff --git a/libavcodec/version.h b/libavcodec/version.h
index b3b999b2cb68f1cf1240407aa5b4f8495bf66df1..b725bb00578ee6a72928f38896d33d895e6869e8 100644
--- a/libavcodec/version.h
+++ b/libavcodec/version.h
@@ -41,9 +41,6 @@
 #ifndef FF_API_REQUEST_CHANNELS
 #define FF_API_REQUEST_CHANNELS (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 55)
 #endif
-#ifndef FF_API_TIFFENC_COMPLEVEL
-#define FF_API_TIFFENC_COMPLEVEL (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 54)
-#endif
 #ifndef FF_API_DATA_POINTERS
 #define FF_API_DATA_POINTERS (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 54)
 #endif