diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc b/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc
index c2a91e1086..a1614c22fa 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE_${PN}-fstrim = "disable"
 
 do_compile () {
 	set -e
-	oe_runmake ARCH=${TARGET_ARCH} CPU= CPUOPT= 'OPT=${CFLAGS}' 
+	oe_runmake ARCH=${TARGET_ARCH} CPU= CPUOPT= 'OPT=${CFLAGS}'
 }
 
 do_install () {
@@ -220,9 +220,6 @@ ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[fsck.8] = "${mandir}/man8/fsck.8"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[uuid.3] = "${mandir}/man3/uuid.3"
 
 ALTERNATIVE_util-linux-hwclock = "hwclock"
-# There seems to be problem, atleast on nslu2, with these, untill they are
-# fixed the busybox ones have higher priority
-ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY[hwclock] = "10"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[hwclock] = "${base_sbindir}/hwclock"
 
 ALTERNATIVE_util-linux-fdisk = "fdisk"