From 670536f68513e3d84556e8d06a530a611294e52a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Clay <matt@mystile.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 16:17:35 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Clear the plugin path cache when adding new
 directories" (#17785)

This reverts commit 5a57313dd72e574d38272364df3ef01d6a3646ef.
---
 lib/ansible/plugins/__init__.py | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/__init__.py
index 77033d85652..f5a6f112a88 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/__init__.py
@@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ class PluginLoader:
             if directory not in self._extra_dirs:
                 # append the directory and invalidate the path cache
                 self._extra_dirs.append(directory)
-                self._plugin_path_cache.clear()
                 self._paths = None
 
     def find_plugin(self, name, mod_type=''):