diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.4.0.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.4.0.bb
index 65ba70b..b557d69 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.4.0.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.4.0.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Keytable files and keyboard utilities"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.kbd-project.org/"
+DESCRIPTION = "The kbd project contains tools for managing Linux console (Linux console, virtual terminals, keyboard, etc.) – mainly, what they do is loading console fonts and keyboard maps."
 # everything minus console-fonts is GPLv2+
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=892f569a555ba9c07a568a7c0c4fa63a"