diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/0001-prefer-valid-entrypoints.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/0001-prefer-valid-entrypoints.patch
index ae3698fac47..525a2ca7000 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/0001-prefer-valid-entrypoints.patch
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/0001-prefer-valid-entrypoints.patch
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ Subject: [PATCH] prefer valid entrypoints
 When there are multiple distributions found and some of them are invalid, ensure that
 the entry_points() accessor puts valid dists first.
 
+Note: this has been fixed differently upstream with importlib_metadata 5d253aec and
+can be dropped when importlib_metadata 10.1.0 is synced into python itself.
+
 Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://github.com/python/importlib_metadata/issues/534]
 Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
 ---
