diff --git a/services/surfaceflinger/SurfaceFlinger.cpp b/services/surfaceflinger/SurfaceFlinger.cpp
index cae4dea..6ee14fe 100644
--- a/services/surfaceflinger/SurfaceFlinger.cpp
+++ b/services/surfaceflinger/SurfaceFlinger.cpp
@@ -3121,10 +3121,8 @@
             // We don't trigger a traversal here because if no other state is
             // changed, we don't want this to cause any more work
         }
-        // Always re-parent the children that explicitly requested to get
-        // re-parented before the general re-parent of all children.
-        if (what & layer_state_t::eReparentChild) {
-            if (layer->reparentChild(s.parentHandleForChild, s.childHandle)) {
+        if (what & layer_state_t::eReparent) {
+            if (layer->reparent(s.parentHandleForChild)) {
                 flags |= eTransactionNeeded|eTraversalNeeded;
             }
         }