diff --git a/cmd/kube-controller-manager/app/plugins.go b/cmd/kube-controller-manager/app/plugins.go
index f87adc251d5..b9f5fe132cf 100644
--- a/cmd/kube-controller-manager/app/plugins.go
+++ b/cmd/kube-controller-manager/app/plugins.go
@@ -45,12 +45,7 @@ import (
 // The list of plugins is manually compiled. This code and the plugin
 // initialization code for kubelet really, really need a through refactor.
 func ProbeAttachableVolumePlugins(logger klog.Logger) ([]volume.VolumePlugin, error) {
-	var err error
 	allPlugins := []volume.VolumePlugin{}
-	allPlugins, err = appendAttachableLegacyProviderVolumes(logger, allPlugins, utilfeature.DefaultFeatureGate)
-	if err != nil {
-		return allPlugins, err
-	}
 	allPlugins = append(allPlugins, fc.ProbeVolumePlugins()...)
 	allPlugins = append(allPlugins, iscsi.ProbeVolumePlugins()...)
 	allPlugins = append(allPlugins, csi.ProbeVolumePlugins()...)
diff --git a/cmd/kube-controller-manager/app/plugins_providers.go b/cmd/kube-controller-manager/app/plugins_providers.go
index 587a02dc9bf..cd0f1a1a8d4 100644
--- a/cmd/kube-controller-manager/app/plugins_providers.go
+++ b/cmd/kube-controller-manager/app/plugins_providers.go
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ type pluginInfo struct {
 	pluginProbeFunction     probeFn
 }
 
-func appendAttachableLegacyProviderVolumes(logger klog.Logger, allPlugins []volume.VolumePlugin, featureGate featuregate.FeatureGate) ([]volume.VolumePlugin, error) {
+func appendExpandableLegacyProviderVolumes(logger klog.Logger, allPlugins []volume.VolumePlugin, featureGate featuregate.FeatureGate) ([]volume.VolumePlugin, error) {
 	pluginMigrationStatus := make(map[string]pluginInfo)
 	pluginMigrationStatus[plugins.PortworxVolumePluginName] = pluginInfo{pluginMigrationFeature: features.CSIMigrationPortworx, pluginUnregisterFeature: features.InTreePluginPortworxUnregister, pluginProbeFunction: portworx.ProbeVolumePlugins}
 	var err error
@@ -65,11 +65,3 @@ func appendAttachableLegacyProviderVolumes(logger klog.Logger, allPlugins []volu
 	}
 	return allPlugins, nil
 }
-
-func appendExpandableLegacyProviderVolumes(logger klog.Logger, allPlugins []volume.VolumePlugin, featureGate featuregate.FeatureGate) ([]volume.VolumePlugin, error) {
-	return appendLegacyProviderVolumes(logger, allPlugins, featureGate)
-}
-
-func appendLegacyProviderVolumes(logger klog.Logger, allPlugins []volume.VolumePlugin, featureGate featuregate.FeatureGate) ([]volume.VolumePlugin, error) {
-	return appendAttachableLegacyProviderVolumes(logger, allPlugins, featureGate)
-}
diff --git a/cmd/kube-controller-manager/app/plugins_test.go b/cmd/kube-controller-manager/app/plugins_test.go
index 83f3ba6ee63..63c4abebade 100644
--- a/cmd/kube-controller-manager/app/plugins_test.go
+++ b/cmd/kube-controller-manager/app/plugins_test.go
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ func TestProbeAttachableVolumePlugins(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("ProbeAttachableVolumePlugins failed: %s", err)
 	}
-	checkPlugins(t, plugins, []string{"kubernetes.io/csi", "kubernetes.io/fc", "kubernetes.io/iscsi", "kubernetes.io/portworx-volume"})
+	checkPlugins(t, plugins, []string{"kubernetes.io/csi", "kubernetes.io/fc", "kubernetes.io/iscsi"})
 }
 
 func TestProbeExpandableVolumePlugins(t *testing.T) {