diff --git a/nova/conductor/tasks/live_migrate.py b/nova/conductor/tasks/live_migrate.py
index 6254187655..a9385efdbf 100644
--- a/nova/conductor/tasks/live_migrate.py
+++ b/nova/conductor/tasks/live_migrate.py
@@ -32,19 +32,6 @@ LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 CONF = nova.conf.CONF
 
 
-def supports_extended_port_binding(context, host):
-    """Checks if the compute host service is new enough to support the neutron
-    port binding-extended details.
-
-    :param context: The user request context.
-    :param host: The nova-compute host to check.
-    :returns: True if the compute host is new enough to support extended
-              port binding information, False otherwise.
-    """
-    svc = objects.Service.get_by_host_and_binary(context, host, 'nova-compute')
-    return svc.version >= 35
-
-
 def supports_vif_related_pci_allocations(context, host):
     """Checks if the compute host service is new enough to support
     VIF related PCI allocation during live migration
@@ -344,12 +331,8 @@ class LiveMigrationTask(base.TaskBase):
                     "%s") % destination
             raise exception.MigrationPreCheckError(msg)
 
-        # Check to see that neutron supports the binding-extended API and
-        # check to see that both the source and destination compute hosts
-        # are new enough to support the new port binding flow.
-        if (self.network_api.supports_port_binding_extension(self.context) and
-                supports_extended_port_binding(self.context, self.source) and
-                supports_extended_port_binding(self.context, destination)):
+        # Check to see that neutron supports the binding-extended API.
+        if self.network_api.supports_port_binding_extension(self.context):
             if 'vifs' not in self.migrate_data:
                 # migrate data vifs were not constructed in dest compute
                 # during check_can_live_migrate_destination, construct a
diff --git a/nova/tests/unit/conductor/tasks/test_live_migrate.py b/nova/tests/unit/conductor/tasks/test_live_migrate.py
index d3586e8b90..6a77da616e 100644
--- a/nova/tests/unit/conductor/tasks/test_live_migrate.py
+++ b/nova/tests/unit/conductor/tasks/test_live_migrate.py
@@ -612,9 +612,7 @@ class LiveMigrationTaskTestCase(test.NoDBTestCase):
             self.assertRaises(exception.MigrationPreCheckError,
                               self.task._call_livem_checks_on_host, {})
 
-    @mock.patch('nova.conductor.tasks.live_migrate.'
-                'supports_extended_port_binding', return_value=True)
-    def test_call_livem_checks_on_host_bind_ports(self, mock_supports_ext):
+    def test_call_livem_checks_on_host_bind_ports(self):
         data = objects.LibvirtLiveMigrateData()
         bindings = {
             uuids.port1: {'host': 'dest-host'},