diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/cml1.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/cml1.bbclass
index 03e5fe6f47..456305a315 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/cml1.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/cml1.bbclass
@@ -93,10 +93,9 @@ python do_diffconfig() {
 
     if isdiff:
         statement = 'diff --unchanged-line-format= --old-line-format= --new-line-format="%L" ' + configorig + ' ' + config + '>' + fragment
-        subprocess.call(statement, shell=True)
         # No need to check the exit code as we know it's going to be
         # non-zero, but that's what we expect.
-        shutil.copy(configorig, config)
+        subprocess.call(statement, shell=True)
 
         bb.plain("Config fragment has been dumped into:\n %s" % fragment)
     else: