diff --git a/meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-custom.bb b/meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-custom.bb
index 42162f3c4a..c3291064bb 100644
--- a/meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-custom.bb
+++ b/meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-custom.bb
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ require recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
 
 # Override SRC_URI in a bbappend file to point at a different source
 # tree if you do not want to build from Linus' tree.
-SRC_URI = "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;protocol=git;nocheckout=1"
+SRC_URI = "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;protocol=git;nocheckout=1;name=machine"
 
 LINUX_VERSION ?= "3.4"
 LINUX_VERSION_EXTENSION ?= "-custom"