diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml
index bd4ad8f21f..6b4deb3177 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml
@@ -665,7 +665,6 @@
             <literallayout class='monospaced'>
      DEPLOYDIR = "${WORKDIR}/deploy-${PN}"
      SSTATETASKS += "do_deploy"
-     do_deploy[sstate-name] = "deploy"
      do_deploy[sstate-inputdirs] = "${DEPLOYDIR}"
      do_deploy[sstate-outputdirs] = "${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}"