diff --git a/meta-witherspoon/conf/machine/witherspoon.conf b/meta-witherspoon/conf/machine/witherspoon.conf
index 9685e60..69381da 100644
--- a/meta-witherspoon/conf/machine/witherspoon.conf
+++ b/meta-witherspoon/conf/machine/witherspoon.conf
@@ -14,3 +14,6 @@
 
 PHOSPHOR_MRW_URI = "git://github.com/open-power/witherspoon-xml"
 PHOSPHOR_MRW_REV = "3a7d05c38c449d9bcd73544a941c0b41121e8e94"
+
+# Inhibit phosphor-hwmon-config-mrw
+VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_phosphor-hwmon-config = ""