diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb
index 6b6ea9a7e864..7204c3eddc11 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ include recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev-revisions.inc
 KBRANCH = "standard/base"
 KMETA = "kernel-meta"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://git.yoctoproject.org/linux-yocto-dev.git;branch=${KBRANCH};name=machine \
+# Set nobranch to skip the SHA validation for branch if a fixed revesion is used
+SRC_URI = "git://git.yoctoproject.org/linux-yocto-dev.git;branch=${KBRANCH};name=machine;nobranch=1 \
            git://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-kernel-cache;type=kmeta;name=meta;branch=master;destsuffix=${KMETA}"
 
 # Set default SRCREVs. Both the machine and meta SRCREVs are statically set