diff --git a/sys/mips/conf/ERL b/sys/mips/conf/ERL
index 8be3b8de428..07332ee09d9 100644
--- a/sys/mips/conf/ERL
+++ b/sys/mips/conf/ERL
@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@ ident		ERL
 makeoptions	ARCH_FLAGS="-march=octeon -mabi=64"
 makeoptions	LDSCRIPT_NAME=ldscript.mips.octeon1
 
-# Don't build any modules yet.
-makeoptions	MODULES_OVERRIDE=""
 makeoptions	KERNLOADADDR=0xffffffff80100000
 
 # We don't need to build a trampolined version of the kernel.