diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.4.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.4.bb
index 70ed967..92129b6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.4.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ SRCREV_machine_qemux86-64 ?= "5432e2acb6053f9f7563cf63abd101ed2fdc1b6f"
 SRCREV_machine ?= "5432e2acb6053f9f7563cf63abd101ed2fdc1b6f"
 SRCREV_meta ?= "7e0cd2990798aae80565baa17d3b6c771874f284"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://git.yoctoproject.org/linux-yocto-3.4.git;protocol=git;nocheckout=1;branch=${KBRANCH},${KMETA};name=machine,meta"
+KSRC_linux_yocto_3_4_repo ?= "git.yoctoproject.org/linux-yocto-3.4.git;protocol=git"
+SRC_URI = "git://${KSRC_linux_yocto_3_4_repo};nocheckout=1;branch=${KBRANCH},${KMETA};name=machine,meta"
 
 LINUX_VERSION ?= "3.4.24"