diff --git a/configure b/configure
index fe3147b..f808f48 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1025,7 +1025,6 @@ echo "  --disable-linux-aio      disable Linux AIO support"
 echo "  --enable-linux-aio       enable Linux AIO support"
 echo "  --disable-attr           disables attr and xattr support"
 echo "  --enable-attr            enable attr and xattr support"
-echo "  --enable-io-thread       enable IO thread"
 echo "  --disable-blobs          disable installing provided firmware blobs"
 echo "  --enable-docs            enable documentation build"
 echo "  --disable-docs           disable documentation build"