diff --git a/tests/kernel/profiling/profiling_api/Kconfig b/tests/kernel/profiling/profiling_api/Kconfig
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-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-config KERNEL_PROFILING_API_TEST
-	bool
-	default y
-	help
-	  Hidden option enabling LPS_0 power state regardless of hardware
-	  support. This ensures that power management hooks used in this
-	  test to profile idle thread will be executed.
-
-# Include Zephyr's Kconfig.
-source "Kconfig"