diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/drbd/drbd/check_existence_of_modules_before_installing.patch b/meta-networking/recipes-support/drbd/drbd/check_existence_of_modules_before_installing.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6414f7305a..0000000000
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/drbd/drbd/check_existence_of_modules_before_installing.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-If CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DRBD kernel config is enabled, then DRBD
-does not build drbd.ko here. Under this circumstance do_install
-task is going to fail with a below error:
--- snip --
-| install: cannot stat ‘drbd.ko’: No such file or directory
-| make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
--- snip --
-
-So, check for kernel module existence before installing.
-
-Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [embedded specific]
-
-Signed-off-by: Jagadeesh Krishnanjanappa <jkrishnanjanappa@mvista.com>
---- drbd-9.0.1-1/drbd/Makefile	2016-07-03 06:54:19.421538690 -0700
-+++ drbd-9.0.1-1/drbd/Makefile_mod	2016-07-03 06:53:18.938801628 -0700
-@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ else
- 	fi
- 	install -d $(DESTDIR)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/$(MODSUBDIR)
- 	set -e ; for ko in $(MODOBJS); do \
--		install -m 644 $$ko $(DESTDIR)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/$(MODSUBDIR); \
-+		[ -e $$ko ] && install -m 644 $$ko $(DESTDIR)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/$(MODSUBDIR); \
- 	done
-     ifeq ($(DESTDIR),/)
-       ifeq ($(shell uname -r),$(KERNELRELEASE))
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/drbd/drbd_9.3.2.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/drbd/drbd_9.3.3.bb
similarity index 82%
rename from meta-networking/recipes-support/drbd/drbd_9.3.2.bb
rename to meta-networking/recipes-support/drbd/drbd_9.3.3.bb
index dafda8ea04..86082a2c39 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/drbd/drbd_9.3.2.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/drbd/drbd_9.3.3.bb
@@ -9,9 +9,8 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=5574c6965ae5f583e55880e397fbb018"
 DEPENDS = "virtual/kernel"
 
 SRC_URI = "https://pkg.linbit.com//downloads/drbd/9/${BP}.tar.gz \
-           file://check_existence_of_modules_before_installing.patch \
            "
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "5ad57634d4b6c118e92080ab5b66e01969ebb251d9ca01562d23598bf3b166fe"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "a7bfb016070c31df1c738569ca8cc5e5fc337dd449147f7bf62e746d87d38f21"
 
 inherit module