diff --git a/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/obmc-libobmc-intf/gpio_defs.json b/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/obmc-libobmc-intf/gpio_defs.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6e4ef9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/obmc-libobmc-intf/gpio_defs.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+    "_comments": "This file should be overridden with one from the machine layer."
+}