tools: remove custom buffer-constructor lint rule

This rule is no longer needed. ESLint's built in
no-buffer-constructor rule is enabled instead.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/25261
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/tools/eslint-rules/buffer-constructor.js b/tools/eslint-rules/buffer-constructor.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 412fdaa934..0000000000
--- a/tools/eslint-rules/buffer-constructor.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * @fileoverview Require use of new Buffer constructor methods in lib
- * @author James M Snell
- */
-'use strict';
-
-//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// Rule Definition
-//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-const msg = 'Use of the Buffer() constructor has been deprecated. ' +
-            'Please use either Buffer.alloc(), Buffer.allocUnsafe(), ' +
-            'or Buffer.from()';
-const astSelector = 'NewExpression[callee.name="Buffer"],' +
-                    'CallExpression[callee.name="Buffer"]';
-
-module.exports = function(context) {
-  return {
-    [astSelector]: (node) => context.report(node, msg)
-  };
-};