diff --git a/utils/aa-autodep b/utils/aa-autodep
index deb5be01c..331dc5348 100755
--- a/utils/aa-autodep
+++ b/utils/aa-autodep
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=_('Generate a basic AppArmor profil
 parser.add_argument('--force', action='store_true', default=False, help=_('overwrite existing profile'))
 parser.add_argument('-d', '--dir', type=str, help=_('path to profiles'))
 parser.add_argument('program', type=str, nargs='+', help=_('name of program'))
+parser.add_argument('--no-reload', dest='do_reload', action='store_false', default=True, help=_('Do not reload the profile after modifying it'))
 args = parser.parse_args()
 
 tool = apparmor.tools.aa_tools('autodep', args)