diff --git a/packages/sysutils/busybox/package.mk b/packages/sysutils/busybox/package.mk
index 0570112e7c..0afa6e5679 100644
--- a/packages/sysutils/busybox/package.mk
+++ b/packages/sysutils/busybox/package.mk
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="busybox"
-PKG_VERSION="1.24.0"
+PKG_VERSION="1.24.1"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
diff --git a/packages/sysutils/busybox/patches/busybox-01_check_cc.patch b/packages/sysutils/busybox/patches/busybox-01_check_cc.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6f485085db..0000000000
--- a/packages/sysutils/busybox/patches/busybox-01_check_cc.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur busybox-1.24.0/scripts/trylink busybox-1.24.0.patch/scripts/trylink
---- busybox-1.24.0/scripts/trylink	2015-10-12 14:37:58.000000000 +0200
-+++ busybox-1.24.0.patch/scripts/trylink	2015-10-13 18:49:50.537508072 +0200
-@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
-     local tempname="$(mktemp)"
-     # Can use "-o /dev/null", but older gcc tend to *unlink it* on failure! :(
-     # "-xc": C language. "/dev/null" is an empty source file.
--    if $CC $CPPFLAGS $CFLAGS $1 -shared -xc /dev/null -o "$tempname".o >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-+    if $CC $CPPFLAGS $CFLAGS $LDFLAGS $1 -shared -xc /dev/null -o "$tempname".o >/dev/null 2>&1; then
- 	echo "$1";
-     else
- 	echo "$2";