diff --git a/meta-google/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-hwmon_%.bbappend b/meta-google/recipes-phosphor/sensors/phosphor-hwmon_%.bbappend
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+EXTRA_OEMESON:append:gbmc = " \
+  -Dupdate-functional-on-fail=true \
+  -Dnegative-errno-on-fail=false \
+"