diff --git a/src/libcamera/pipeline_handler.cpp b/src/libcamera/pipeline_handler.cpp
index f72613b8..21979ea5 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/pipeline_handler.cpp
+++ b/src/libcamera/pipeline_handler.cpp
@@ -604,10 +604,6 @@ void PipelineHandler::registerCamera(std::shared_ptr<Camera> camera)
 {
 	cameras_.push_back(camera);
 
-	if (mediaDevices_.empty())
-		LOG(Pipeline, Fatal)
-			<< "Registering camera with no media devices!";
-
 	/*
 	 * Walk the entity list and map the devnums of all capture video nodes
 	 * to the camera.