diff --git a/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/include/phosphor-defaults.inc b/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/include/phosphor-defaults.inc
index ed2cd74..526108e 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/include/phosphor-defaults.inc
+++ b/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/include/phosphor-defaults.inc
@@ -244,3 +244,5 @@
 # Will add a build dependency to host-ipmid on the
 # phosphor-ipmi-fru-whitelist-native recipe.
 VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_phosphor-ipmi-providers ?= "phosphor-ipmi-fru"
+
+PREFERRED_VERSION_phosphor-gpio-monitor = "1.0"
diff --git a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/gpio/phosphor-gpio-monitor_git.bb b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/gpio/phosphor-gpio-monitor_git.bb
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..711c057
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/gpio/phosphor-gpio-monitor_git.bb
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+phosphor-gpio-monitor.bb
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