diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
index 8dff68612d..d878d4e167 100644
--- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
@@ -588,9 +588,7 @@ do_shared_workdir () {
 }
 
 # We don't need to stage anything, not the modules/firmware since those would clash with linux-firmware
-sysroot_stage_all () {
-	:
-}
+SYSROOT_DIRS = ""
 
 KERNEL_CONFIG_COMMAND ?= "oe_runmake_call -C ${S} O=${B} olddefconfig || oe_runmake -C ${S} O=${B} oldnoconfig"