diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/sets/ordered.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/sets/ordered.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 443dac62eb3..00000000000
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/sets/ordered.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-/*
-Copyright 2022 The Kubernetes Authors.
-
-Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-limitations under the License.
-*/
-
-package sets
-
-// ordered is a constraint that permits any ordered type: any type
-// that supports the operators < <= >= >.
-// If future releases of Go add new ordered types,
-// this constraint will be modified to include them.
-type ordered interface {
-	integer | float | ~string
-}
-
-// integer is a constraint that permits any integer type.
-// If future releases of Go add new predeclared integer types,
-// this constraint will be modified to include them.
-type integer interface {
-	signed | unsigned
-}
-
-// float is a constraint that permits any floating-point type.
-// If future releases of Go add new predeclared floating-point types,
-// this constraint will be modified to include them.
-type float interface {
-	~float32 | ~float64
-}
-
-// signed is a constraint that permits any signed integer type.
-// If future releases of Go add new predeclared signed integer types,
-// this constraint will be modified to include them.
-type signed interface {
-	~int | ~int8 | ~int16 | ~int32 | ~int64
-}
-
-// unsigned is a constraint that permits any unsigned integer type.
-// If future releases of Go add new predeclared unsigned integer types,
-// this constraint will be modified to include them.
-type unsigned interface {
-	~uint | ~uint8 | ~uint16 | ~uint32 | ~uint64 | ~uintptr
-}
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/sets/set.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/sets/set.go
index d50526f4262..9c2fa4941b3 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/sets/set.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/sets/set.go
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ limitations under the License.
 package sets
 
 import (
+	"cmp"
 	"sort"
 )
 
@@ -193,7 +194,7 @@ func (s1 Set[T]) Equal(s2 Set[T]) bool {
 	return len(s1) == len(s2) && s1.IsSuperset(s2)
 }
 
-type sortableSliceOfGeneric[T ordered] []T
+type sortableSliceOfGeneric[T cmp.Ordered] []T
 
 func (g sortableSliceOfGeneric[T]) Len() int           { return len(g) }
 func (g sortableSliceOfGeneric[T]) Less(i, j int) bool { return less[T](g[i], g[j]) }
@@ -203,7 +204,7 @@ func (g sortableSliceOfGeneric[T]) Swap(i, j int)      { g[i], g[j] = g[j], g[i]
 //
 // This is a separate function and not a method because not all types supported
 // by Generic are ordered and only those can be sorted.
-func List[T ordered](s Set[T]) []T {
+func List[T cmp.Ordered](s Set[T]) []T {
 	res := make(sortableSliceOfGeneric[T], 0, len(s))
 	for key := range s {
 		res = append(res, key)
@@ -236,6 +237,6 @@ func (s Set[T]) Len() int {
 	return len(s)
 }
 
-func less[T ordered](lhs, rhs T) bool {
+func less[T cmp.Ordered](lhs, rhs T) bool {
 	return lhs < rhs
 }