diff --git a/package/base/udev/udev.conf b/package/base/udev/udev.conf
index a16b53ff5..12aa6e832 100644
--- a/package/base/udev/udev.conf
+++ b/package/base/udev/udev.conf
@@ -28,9 +28,10 @@ udev_pm() {
 	chmod +x $root/etc/udev/scripts/{ide-devfs.sh,scsi-devfs.sh}
 	cp -v $confdir/permissions.rules $root/etc/udev/rules.d/
 	ln -svf ../etc/udev/scripts $root/lib/udev
+	install_init udevd $confdir/udevd.init
 }
-
-makeopt="prefix=$root udevdir=$root/dev"
-makeinstopt="prefix=$root udevdir=$root/dev install"
+prefix="$root"
+makeopt="udevdir=$root/dev"
+makeinstopt="udevdir=$root/dev install"
 hook_add postmake 1 udev_pm
 
diff --git a/package/base/udev/udev.desc b/package/base/udev/udev.desc
index 80c6e67e8..88f9791dc 100644
--- a/package/base/udev/udev.desc
+++ b/package/base/udev/udev.desc
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Beta
-[V] 077
+[V] 079
 [P] X -?-3-----9 188.400
 
-[D] 1496491118 udev-077.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/
+[D] 3397531651 udev-079.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/