diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/0002-Passthrough-r-to-linker.patch b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/0002-Passthrough-r-to-linker.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index de286fb746..0000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/0002-Passthrough-r-to-linker.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-From df2cc76cdebc4773361477f3db203790f6986e3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
-Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 23:42:40 -0700
-Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Passthrough -r to linker
-
-clang does not have -r switch and it does not pass it down to linker
-either, LDFLAGS_RELOCATABLE is used when CC is used for LD, so this
-should not cause side effects
-
-Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
----
-Upstream-Status: Pending
-
- Makefile | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
-index 9da02cb..10dd4a9 100644
---- a/Makefile
-+++ b/Makefile
-@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ CHECKFLAGS     := -D__linux__ -Dlinux -D__STDC__ -Dunix -D__unix__ -Wbitwise $(C
- MODFLAGS	= -DMODULE
- CFLAGS_MODULE   = $(MODFLAGS)
- AFLAGS_MODULE   = $(MODFLAGS)
--LDFLAGS_RELOCATABLE = -r -nostdlib
-+LDFLAGS_RELOCATABLE = -Xlinker -r -nostdlib
- LDFLAGS_MODULE  = $(LDFLAGS_RELOCATABLE)
- CFLAGS_KERNEL	=
- AFLAGS_KERNEL	=
--- 
-2.1.4
-
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.24.1.bb b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.24.1.bb
index 174ca472cd..bdaa5a5640 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.24.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.24.1.bb
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-${PV}.tar.bz2;name=tarball \
            file://recognize_connmand.patch \
            file://busybox-cross-menuconfig.patch \
            file://0001-Use-CC-when-linking-instead-of-LD-and-use-CFLAGS-and.patch \
-           file://0002-Passthrough-r-to-linker.patch \
            file://busybox-1.24.1-unzip.patch \
            file://busybox-1.24.1-unzip-regression.patch \
            file://busybox-1.24.1-truncate-open-mode.patch \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_git.bb b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_git.bb
index ae16b5935a..c29b894349 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_git.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 require busybox.inc
 
-SRCREV = "966423d4034067f52b419570a1016d1dfc4aeacd"
+SRCREV = "1b7c17391de66502dd7a97c866e0a33681edbb1f"
 # Lookout for PV bump too when SRCREV is changed
 PV = "1.25.0+git${SRCPV}"
 
@@ -35,12 +35,17 @@ SRC_URI = "git://busybox.net/busybox.git \
            file://recognize_connmand.patch \
            file://busybox-cross-menuconfig.patch \
            file://0001-Use-CC-when-linking-instead-of-LD-and-use-CFLAGS-and.patch \
-           file://0002-Passthrough-r-to-linker.patch \
            file://mount-via-label.cfg \
            file://sha1sum.cfg \
            file://sha256sum.cfg \
            file://getopts.cfg \
            file://resize.cfg \
+           ${@["", "file://init.cfg"][(d.getVar('VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager', True) == 'busybox')]} \
+           ${@["", "file://mdev.cfg"][(d.getVar('VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_dev_manager', True) == 'busybox-mdev')]} \
+           file://inittab \
+           file://rcS \
+           file://rcK \
+           file://runlevel \
 "
 SRC_URI_append_libc-musl = " file://musl.cfg "