diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 078fabb1e..c3d28a639 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 217:
           servers that do not do forwarding, "fq" may perform better.
           Systems without a good clocksource should use "pfifo_fast".
 
+          [ reverted in this branch ]
+
         * If kdbus is enabled during build a new option BusPolicy= is
           available for service units, that allows locking all service
           processes into a stricter bus policy, in order to limit
diff --git a/sysctl.d/50-default.conf b/sysctl.d/50-default.conf
index f18923399..8fc9ab77a 100644
--- a/sysctl.d/50-default.conf
+++ b/sysctl.d/50-default.conf
@@ -25,9 +25,6 @@ net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_source_route = 0
 net.ipv4.conf.default.promote_secondaries = 1
 net.ipv4.conf.all.promote_secondaries = 1
 
-# Fair Queue CoDel packet scheduler to fight bufferbloat
-net.core.default_qdisc = fq_codel
-
 # Enable hard and soft link protection
 fs.protected_hardlinks = 1
 fs.protected_symlinks = 1