diff --git a/package/swupdate/0002-Makefile.flags-SURICATTA_HAWKBIT-needs-librt-under-o.patch b/package/swupdate/0002-Makefile.flags-SURICATTA_HAWKBIT-needs-librt-under-o.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1f8d8e72f2..0000000000
--- a/package/swupdate/0002-Makefile.flags-SURICATTA_HAWKBIT-needs-librt-under-o.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-From 66ccd99c6299ebe70a5549da78063fd7b1e02ea2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
-Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 22:28:03 +0300
-Subject: [PATCH] Makefile.flags: SURICATTA_HAWKBIT needs librt under older
- glibc
-
-glibc before 2.17 requires linking against librt for clock_gettime(). Fixes
-the following build failure:
-
-ld: suricatta/lib.a(server_hawkbit.o): undefined reference to symbol 'clock_gettime@@GLIBC_2.2'
-
-Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
----
-Upstream status:
-https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/swupdate/77QWIka27es
-
- Makefile.flags | 1 +
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
-
-diff --git a/Makefile.flags b/Makefile.flags
-index 391fc7f82682..8db5dfeacc2f 100644
---- a/Makefile.flags
-+++ b/Makefile.flags
-@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ LDLIBS += crypto ssl
- endif
- endif
- ifneq ($(CONFIG_SURICATTA_HAWKBIT),)
-+LDLIBS += rt
- ifeq ($(strip $(findstring json-c,$(LDLIBS))),)
- LDLIBS += json-c
- endif
--- 
-2.11.0
-
diff --git a/package/swupdate/swupdate.config b/package/swupdate/swupdate.config
index 51869bb9d9..643347013d 100644
--- a/package/swupdate/swupdate.config
+++ b/package/swupdate/swupdate.config
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE=""
 CONFIG_SYSROOT=""
 CONFIG_EXTRA_CFLAGS=""
 CONFIG_EXTRA_LDFLAGS=""
-CONFIG_EXTRA_LDLIBS=""
+CONFIG_EXTRA_LDLIBS="rt"
 
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