diff --git a/meta-digi-arm/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx-headers_5.4.bb b/meta-digi-arm/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx-headers_5.4.bb
index b944c0467..566136bd8 100644
--- a/meta-digi-arm/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx-headers_5.4.bb
+++ b/meta-digi-arm/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx-headers_5.4.bb
@@ -49,8 +49,17 @@ do_install() {
 
 DEPENDS += "rsync-native"
 
+# Allow to build empty main package, this is required in order for -dev package
+# to be propagated into the SDK
+#
+# Without this setting the RDEPENDS in other recipes fails to find this
+# package, therefore causing the -dev package also to be skipped effectively not
+# populating it into SDK
 ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
 
+INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
+DEPENDS += "unifdef-native bison-native rsync-native"
+
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_SOCARCH}"
 
 COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "(ccimx6ul|ccimx8x|ccimx8m|ccimx6)"