diff --git a/conf/patches/quantum/kombu-requirement.patch b/conf/patches/quantum/kombu-requirement.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e875383..00000000
--- a/conf/patches/quantum/kombu-requirement.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/tools/pip-requires b/tools/pip-requires
-index 7ed4a43..bd47095 100644
---- a/tools/pip-requires
-+++ b/tools/pip-requires
-@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ eventlet>=0.9.17
- greenlet>=0.3.1
- httplib2
- iso8601>=0.1.4
--kombu==1.0.4
-+kombu>=1.0.4
- netaddr
- python-quantumclient>=2.2.0,<3.0.0
- pyudev