diff --git a/defaults/initrd.scripts b/defaults/initrd.scripts
index ca149e5..8181681 100644
--- a/defaults/initrd.scripts
+++ b/defaults/initrd.scripts
@@ -109,22 +109,6 @@ plymouth_newroot() {
 	is_plymouth_started && "${PLYMOUTH_BIN}" --newroot="${1}"
 }
 
-# We should ship the initramfs with modules.dep.bb
-# But current busybox depmod has broken -b support
-# so we can't do that at build time, unless we want
-# to chroot into the initramfs root, which is much more
-# fragile. See bug #472312
-busybox_depmod_workaround() {
-	local depmod_args
-	if [ -n "${DEBUG}" ]
-	then
-		depmod_args="-v"
-	elif [ -n "${QUIET}" ]; then
-		depmod_args="-q"
-	fi
-	depmod ${depmod_args}
-}
-
 modules_load() {
 	for module in $*
 	do
diff --git a/defaults/linuxrc b/defaults/linuxrc
index 09799b5..4fb241b 100644
--- a/defaults/linuxrc
+++ b/defaults/linuxrc
@@ -310,13 +310,6 @@ mount_devfs
 # Mount sysfs
 mount_sysfs
 
-# We should ship the initramfs with modules.dep.bb
-# But current busybox depmod has broken -b support
-# so we can't do that at build time, unless we want
-# to chroot into the initramfs root, which is much more
-# fragile. See bug #472312
-busybox_depmod_workaround
-
 # Setup hotplugging for firmware loading
 if is_udev
 then