diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 083e33daa52..46dde3d96e7 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ Release 2.0.4-beta - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-9154. SortedMapWritable#putAll() doesn't add key/value classes to
     the map. (Karthik Kambatla via tomwhite)
 
+    HADOOP-9304. remove addition of avro genreated-sources dirs to build. (tucu)
+
 Release 2.0.3-alpha - 2013-02-06 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
index 28dd128c389..5992992cddd 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
@@ -406,24 +406,6 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-        <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <id>add-avro-test-source</id>
-            <phase>generate-sources</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>add-test-source</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <configuration>
-              <sources>
-                <source>${project.build.directory}/generated-test-sources/java</source>
-              </sources>
-            </configuration>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
         <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>