diff --git a/package/prosody/Config.in b/package/prosody/Config.in
index 4b7ea94256..bb3a5025fa 100644
--- a/package/prosody/Config.in
+++ b/package/prosody/Config.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_PROSODY
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # fork
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_LUAINTERPRETER
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # luaexpat, luasec, luasocket, luafilesystem
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_LUABITOP if !BR2_PACKAGE_LUAJIT # runtime
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_LUABITOP if BR2_PACKAGE_LUA_5_1 # runtime
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LUAEXPAT # runtime
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LUASEC # runtime
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LUASOCKET # runtime