diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6d681e6d5..078a808c2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ rustls-tls-manual-roots = ["__rustls"]
 rustls-tls-webpki-roots = ["webpki-roots", "__rustls"]
 rustls-tls-native-roots = ["rustls-native-certs", "__rustls"]
 
-blocking = ["futures-util/io", "tokio/rt-multi-thread", "tokio/sync"]
+blocking = ["futures-util/io", "tokio/sync"]
 
 cookies = ["cookie_crate", "cookie_store"]
 
diff --git a/src/blocking/client.rs b/src/blocking/client.rs
index 195081391..689e6a0d8 100644
--- a/src/blocking/client.rs
+++ b/src/blocking/client.rs
@@ -1172,7 +1172,7 @@ impl Default for Timeout {
     }
 }
 
-pub(crate) struct KeepCoreThreadAlive(Option<Arc<InnerClientHandle>>);
+pub(crate) struct KeepCoreThreadAlive(#[allow(unused)] Option<Arc<InnerClientHandle>>);
 
 impl KeepCoreThreadAlive {
     pub(crate) fn empty() -> KeepCoreThreadAlive {