diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/dbus-broker/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/dbus-broker/default.nix
index 6e7034e0c1e..51d0fb5e125 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/dbus-broker/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/dbus-broker/default.nix
@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
 { stdenv, fetchgit, fetchFromGitHub, docutils, meson, ninja, pkgconfig
-, dbus, glib, linuxHeaders, systemd }:
+, dbus, glib, systemd }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "dbus-broker-${version}";
-  version = "11";
+  version = "9";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner           = "bus1";
     repo            = "dbus-broker";
     rev             = "v${version}";
-    sha256          = "19sszb6ac7md494i996ixqmz9b3gim8rrv2nbrmlgjd59gk6hf7b";
+    sha256          = "0q0kbinkkia96bsy7jczlyjz8xgdrfkyx8v6gdr2zflgv0mgbsab";
     fetchSubmodules = true;
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ docutils meson ninja pkgconfig ];
 
-  buildInputs = [ dbus glib linuxHeaders systemd ];
+  buildInputs = [ dbus glib systemd ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 5e3d0c118bb..1f05623beb0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1056,10 +1056,7 @@ with pkgs;
 
   devmem2 = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/devmem2 { };
 
-  # dbus-broker needs kernel 4.14+
-  dbus-broker = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/dbus-broker {
-    linuxHeaders = linuxHeaders_4_15;
-  };
+  dbus-broker = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/dbus-broker {};
 
   ioport = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/ioport {};