diff --git a/package/modem-manager/modem-manager.mk b/package/modem-manager/modem-manager.mk
index 100c4a2941..fe4a7a95da 100644
--- a/package/modem-manager/modem-manager.mk
+++ b/package/modem-manager/modem-manager.mk
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ MODEM_MANAGER_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+ (programs, plugins), LGPL-2.0+ (libmm-glib)
 MODEM_MANAGER_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING COPYING.LIB
 MODEM_MANAGER_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf host-intltool libglib2 libgudev
 MODEM_MANAGER_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
+MODEM_MANAGER_CONF_OPTS = --disable-more-warnings
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_MODEM_MANAGER_LIBQMI),y)
 MODEM_MANAGER_DEPENDENCIES += libqmi