diff --git a/ash/display/display_controller_unittest.cc b/ash/display/display_controller_unittest.cc
index 1499298c41651..cb2bcb2542c20 100644
--- a/ash/display/display_controller_unittest.cc
+++ b/ash/display/display_controller_unittest.cc
@@ -655,8 +655,7 @@ TEST_F(DisplayControllerTest, BoundsUpdated) {
 
   // No change
   UpdateDisplay("400x500*2,300x300");
-  // We still call into Pre/PostDisplayConfigurationChange().
-  EXPECT_EQ(1, observer.CountAndReset());
+  EXPECT_EQ(0, observer.CountAndReset());
   EXPECT_EQ(0, observer.GetFocusChangedCountAndReset());
   EXPECT_EQ(0, observer.GetActivationChangedCountAndReset());
 
diff --git a/ash/display/display_manager.cc b/ash/display/display_manager.cc
index 2769510dd38ef..29eced4cc03ec 100644
--- a/ash/display/display_manager.cc
+++ b/ash/display/display_manager.cc
@@ -884,6 +884,13 @@ void DisplayManager::UpdateDisplays(
   scoped_ptr<NonDesktopDisplayUpdater> non_desktop_display_updater(
       new NonDesktopDisplayUpdater(this, delegate_));
 
+  // Do not update |displays_| if there's nothing to be updated. Without this,
+  // it will not update the display layout, which causes the bug
+  // http://crbug.com/155948.
+  if (display_changes.empty() && added_display_indices.empty() &&
+      removed_displays.empty()) {
+    return;
+  }
   // Clear focus if the display has been removed, but don't clear focus if
   // the destkop has been moved from one display to another
   // (mirror -> docked, docked -> single internal).
@@ -893,22 +900,6 @@ void DisplayManager::UpdateDisplays(
   if (delegate_)
     delegate_->PreDisplayConfigurationChange(clear_focus);
 
-  // Do not update |displays_| if there's nothing to be updated. Without this,
-  // it will not update the display layout, which causes the bug
-  // http://crbug.com/155948.
-  if (display_changes.empty() && added_display_indices.empty() &&
-      removed_displays.empty()) {
-    // When changing from software mirroring mode to sinlge display mode, it
-    // is possible there is no need to update |displays_| and we early out
-    // here. But we still want to run the PostDisplayConfigurationChange()
-    // cause there are some clients need to act on this, e.g.
-    // TouchTransformerController needs to adjust the TouchTransformer when
-    // switching from dual displays to single display.
-    if (delegate_)
-      delegate_->PostDisplayConfigurationChange();
-    return;
-  }
-
   size_t updated_index;
   if (UpdateSecondaryDisplayBoundsForLayout(&new_displays, &updated_index) &&
       std::find(added_display_indices.begin(),