diff --git a/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-omap4_3.1.0.bb b/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-omap4_3.1.0.bb
index 3cc48bec..c57d0342 100644
--- a/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-omap4_3.1.0.bb
+++ b/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-omap4_3.1.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "pandaboard"
 
-DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1"
-
 require linux.inc
 
 # The main PR is now using MACHINE_KERNEL_PR, for omap4 see conf/machine/include/omap4.inc