diff --git a/package/irda-utils/0004-musl.patch b/package/irda-utils/0004-musl.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6cf975b8c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/irda-utils/0004-musl.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+Replace use of <net/if_packet.h> with <linux/if_packet.h>.
+
+kernel headers <linux/if_packet.h> already provides the
+needed definitions, moreover not all libc implementations
+provide if_packet.h e.g. musl
+
+Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+[From http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/plain/meta/recipes-connectivity/irda-utils/irda-utils-0.9.18/musl.patch.]
+Signed-off-by: Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls@t-online.de>
+
+Index: irda-utils-0.9.18/irdaping/irdaping.c
+===================================================================
+--- irda-utils-0.9.18.orig/irdaping/irdaping.c
++++ irda-utils-0.9.18/irdaping/irdaping.c
+@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
+ #include <sys/socket.h>
+ #include <sys/ioctl.h>
+ #include <net/if.h>		/* For struct ifreq */
+-#include <net/if_packet.h>	/* For struct sockaddr_pkt */
+ #include <net/if_arp.h>		/* For ARPHRD_IRDA */
+ #include <netinet/if_ether.h>	/* For ETH_P_ALL */
+ #include <netinet/in.h>		/* For htons */
+@@ -46,6 +45,7 @@
+ #include <asm/byteorder.h>	/* __cpu_to_le32 and co. */
+ 
+ #include <linux/types.h>	/* For __u8 and co. */
++#include <linux/if_packet.h>	/* For struct sockaddr_pkt */
+ #include <irda.h>
+ 
+ #ifndef AF_IRDA