diff --git a/meta-ibm/meta-romulus/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-hwmon%.bbappend b/meta-ibm/meta-romulus/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-hwmon%.bbappend
index d5a2ebe..536d797 100644
--- a/meta-ibm/meta-romulus/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-hwmon%.bbappend
+++ b/meta-ibm/meta-romulus/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-hwmon%.bbappend
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
 
-# Pin the revision so the patch is guaranteed to be appliable
-# TODO: Remove this when the error handling in hwmon is done:
-# https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/#/c/8073/
-SRCREV = "a23babd6952cb21397d6aa408a827047d1de81de"
-
-SRC_URI += " file://0001-sysfs-Return-ETIMEDOUT-instead-of-throw-exception.patch"
+EXTRA_OECONF_append_romulus = " --enable-negative-errno-on-fail"
 
 CHIPS = " \
         i2c@1e78a000/i2c-bus@440/w83773g@4c \
diff --git a/meta-ibm/meta-romulus/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-hwmon%/0001-sysfs-Return-ETIMEDOUT-instead-of-throw-exception.patch b/meta-ibm/meta-romulus/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-hwmon%/0001-sysfs-Return-ETIMEDOUT-instead-of-throw-exception.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 67268b3..0000000
--- a/meta-ibm/meta-romulus/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-hwmon%/0001-sysfs-Return-ETIMEDOUT-instead-of-throw-exception.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-From 26989b5e7c85ac1d5715a5ef2667335061920e96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Lei YU <mine260309@gmail.com>
-Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 16:14:51 +0800
-Subject: [PATCH] sysfs: Return -ETIMEDOUT instead of throw exception
-
-Aspeed fan tach gives ETIMEDOUT error when host is powered off, it
-causes phosphor-hwmon exit with read failure exception.
-Make it return -ETIMEDOUT so that it gives negative value for fan speed
-as workaround.
-
-Signed-off-by: Lei YU <mine260309@gmail.com>
----
- sysfs.cpp | 6 ++++++
- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/sysfs.cpp b/sysfs.cpp
-index 369d2e7..f390de6 100644
---- a/sysfs.cpp
-+++ b/sysfs.cpp
-@@ -308,6 +308,12 @@ uint32_t HwmonIO::read(
-                 throw std::system_error(rc, std::generic_category());
-             }
- 
-+            if (rc == ETIMEDOUT)
-+            {
-+                // Workaround for AST fan tach driver
-+                // that returns -ETIMEDOUT when fan is not runnings
-+                return -rc;
-+            }
-             --retries;
-             std::this_thread::sleep_for(delay);
-             continue;
--- 
-1.9.1
-