diff --git a/lalframe/configure.ac b/lalframe/configure.ac
index 0b6dcc1d47ee01e42d2a6b2c6184c30318bf6046..2073597a7e533568a888e0a8f9fd27f1b8f9ac36 100644
--- a/lalframe/configure.ac
+++ b/lalframe/configure.ac
@@ -69,9 +69,6 @@ AC_SUBST([LIBVERSION],[${LIBCURRENT}:${LIBREVISION}:${LIBAGE}])
 # nightly build
 LALSUITE_ENABLE_NIGHTLY
 
-# enable check for inotify
-LALFRAME_ENABLE_INOTIFY
-
 # enable check for framec
 LALFRAME_ENABLE_FRAMEC
 
@@ -176,14 +173,6 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL([FRAMEL],[test "${FRAMEL_AVAILABLE}" = "yes"])
 LALSUITE_CHECK_LIB([LAL],[${MIN_LAL_VERSION}],[XLALPerror],[lal/XLALError.h])
 LALSUITE_CHECK_LIB([LALSupport],[${MIN_LAL_VERSION}],[XLALCacheImport],[lal/LALCache.h])
 
-# check for inotify
-if test "${inotify}" = "true"; then
-  AC_CHECK_HEADER([sys/inotify.h],
-                  [AC_DEFINE([HAVE_INOTIFY],[1],[Define if you have inotify])],
-                  [inotify=false])
-fi
-INOTIFY_ENABLE_VAL="`eval test x$inotify = xtrue && echo "ENABLED" || echo "DISABLED"`"
-
 # configure SWIG wrapping modules
 LALSUITE_USE_SWIG
 
@@ -218,7 +207,6 @@ LALFrame has now been successfully configured:
 * using the $FRAME_LIBRARY frame library
 * FrameC availability... ${FRAMEC_AVAILABLE}
 * FrameL availability... ${FRAMEL_AVAILABLE}
-* inotify support is $INOTIFY_ENABLE_VAL
 * SWIG bindings for Octave are $SWIG_BUILD_OCTAVE_ENABLE_VAL
 * SWIG bindings for Python are $SWIG_BUILD_PYTHON_ENABLE_VAL
 * Doxygen documentation is $DOXYGEN_ENABLE_VAL
diff --git a/lalframe/gnuscripts/lalframe.m4 b/lalframe/gnuscripts/lalframe.m4
index 9c551cfba617ac1e54c17330b608049c605d2591..392d81921c40a336f12e88c6544cf805d5ddc5e3 100644
--- a/lalframe/gnuscripts/lalframe.m4
+++ b/lalframe/gnuscripts/lalframe.m4
@@ -23,14 +23,3 @@ AC_DEFUN([LALFRAME_ENABLE_FRAMEL],
             [AC_MSG_ERROR([bad value ${enableval} for --enable-framel])])
     ],[framel="true"])
 ])
-
-AC_DEFUN([LALFRAME_ENABLE_INOTIFY],
-[AC_ARG_ENABLE(
-  [inotify],
-  AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-inotify],[use Linux filesystem change notification for low latency frame input @<:@default=check@:>@]),[
-    AS_CASE([${enableval}],
-      [yes],[inotify="true"],
-      [no],[inotify="false"],
-      [AC_MSG_ERROR(bad value ${enableval} for --enable-inotify)])
-  ],[inotify="true"])
-])