diff --git a/meta-digi-arm/recipes-kernel/kernel-module-atheros/files/50-firmware.rules b/meta-digi-arm/recipes-kernel/kernel-module-atheros/files/50-firmware.rules
deleted file mode 100644
index e809e246e..000000000
--- a/meta-digi-arm/recipes-kernel/kernel-module-atheros/files/50-firmware.rules
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# do not edit this file, it will be overwritten on update
-
-# firmware-class requests, copies files into the kernel
-SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", ACTION=="add", RUN+="firmware.sh $env{FIRMWARE} $env{DEVPATH}"
diff --git a/meta-digi-arm/recipes-kernel/kernel-module-atheros/files/firmware.sh b/meta-digi-arm/recipes-kernel/kernel-module-atheros/files/firmware.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 11fbe56ba..000000000
--- a/meta-digi-arm/recipes-kernel/kernel-module-atheros/files/firmware.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh -l
-
-set -e
-
-FIRMWARE=$1
-DEVPATH=$2
-
-if echo "${FIRMWARE}" | egrep -q "ath6k" ; then 
-	/bin/echo "Refusing to load ${FIRMWARE}."
-else
-	/bin/echo "Loading ${FIRMWARE}"
-	/lib/udev/firmware --firmware=${FIRMWARE} --devpath=${DEVPATH}
-fi
-
-
diff --git a/meta-digi-arm/recipes-kernel/kernel-module-atheros/kernel-module-atheros.bb b/meta-digi-arm/recipes-kernel/kernel-module-atheros/kernel-module-atheros.bb
index 390ba8486..06a8845e8 100644
--- a/meta-digi-arm/recipes-kernel/kernel-module-atheros/kernel-module-atheros.bb
+++ b/meta-digi-arm/recipes-kernel/kernel-module-atheros/kernel-module-atheros.bb
@@ -23,10 +23,8 @@ SRC_URI_tar = "${DIGI_MIRROR}/atheros-${SRCREV_SHORT}.tar.gz;md5sum=${TARBALL_MD
 
 SRC_URI  = "${@base_conditional('ATHEROS_BUILD_FROM_GIT', '1' , '${SRC_URI_git}', '${SRC_URI_tar}', d)}"
 SRC_URI += " \
-	file://50-firmware.rules \
 	file://atheros \
 	file://atheros.conf \
-	file://firmware.sh \
 	file://Makefile \
 	"
 
@@ -43,10 +41,6 @@ do_install_append() {
 	install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/atheros ${D}${sysconfdir}/network/if-pre-up.d/
 	install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/modprobe.d
 	install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/atheros.conf ${D}${sysconfdir}/modprobe.d/
-	install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/udev/rules.d
-	install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/50-firmware.rules ${D}${sysconfdir}/udev/rules.d/
-	install -d ${D}${base_libdir}/udev
-	install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/firmware.sh ${D}${base_libdir}/udev/
 }
 
 FILES_${PN} += " \
@@ -57,7 +51,6 @@ FILES_${PN} += " \
 	/lib/firmware/ath6k/AR6003/hw2.1.1/fw-4.bin \
 	/lib/firmware/ath6k/AR6003/hw2.1.1/nullTestFlow.bin \
 	/lib/firmware/ath6k/AR6003/hw2.1.1/utf.bin \
-	/lib/udev/firmware.sh \
 	"
 FILES_${PN}_append_cpx2 = " \
 	/lib/firmware/ath6k/AR6003/hw2.1.1/calData_AR6103_Digi_X2e_B.bin \