diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a49d6460..4adc96c5 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ oslo.context>=2.21.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.i18n>=3.20.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.utils>=3.36.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.serialization>=2.25.0 # Apache-2.0
-pyinotify>=0.9.6;sys_platform!='win32' and sys_platform!='darwin' and sys_platform!='sunos5' # MIT
 python-dateutil>=2.7.0 # BSD