diff --git a/lib/fs.js b/lib/fs.js
index d07116a9ea9812..a7e8a395a68017 100644
--- a/lib/fs.js
+++ b/lib/fs.js
@@ -40,42 +40,7 @@ const isWindows = process.platform === 'win32';
 
 const DEBUG = process.env.NODE_DEBUG && /fs/.test(process.env.NODE_DEBUG);
 const errnoException = util._errnoException;
-
-var printDeprecation;
-try {
-  printDeprecation = require('internal/util').printDeprecationMessage;
-} catch (e) {
-  if (e.code !== 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND') throw e;
-
-  // TODO(ChALkeR): remove this in master after 6.x
-  // This code was based upon internal/util and is required to give users
-  // a grace period before actually breaking modules that re-evaluate fs
-  // sources from context where internal modules are not allowed, e.g.
-  // older versions of graceful-fs module.
-
-  const prefix = `(${process.release.name}:${process.pid}) `;
-
-  printDeprecation = function(msg, warned) {
-    if (process.noDeprecation)
-      return true;
-
-    if (warned)
-      return warned;
-
-    if (process.throwDeprecation)
-      throw new Error(`${prefix}${msg}`);
-    else if (process.traceDeprecation)
-      console.trace(msg);
-    else
-      console.error(`${prefix}${msg}`);
-
-    return true;
-  };
-  printDeprecation('fs: re-evaluating native module sources is not ' +
-                   'supported. If you are using the graceful-fs module, ' +
-                   'please update it to a more recent version.',
-                    false);
-}
+const printDeprecation = require('internal/util').printDeprecationMessage;
 
 function throwOptionsError(options) {
   throw new TypeError('Expected options to be either an object or a string, ' +