diff --git a/patches/openwrt/0004-package-base-files-change-sysctl-handling.patch b/patches/openwrt/0004-package-base-files-change-sysctl-handling.patch
index 13259e23..f2605897 100644
--- a/patches/openwrt/0004-package-base-files-change-sysctl-handling.patch
+++ b/patches/openwrt/0004-package-base-files-change-sysctl-handling.patch
@@ -2,10 +2,9 @@ From: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
 Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 13:31:13 +0100
 Subject: package/base-files: change sysctl handling
 
-Move /etc/init.d/sysctl to index 00 and add hotplug script that applies
-interface specific sysctls for interfaces that only appear later - this
-allows to reliably configure per-interface parameters in sysctl.conf, e.g.
-to disable ipv6 autoconfig on a specific iface.
+Add hotplug script that applies interface specific sysctls for interfaces that
+only appear later - this allows to reliably configure per-interface parameters
+in sysctl.conf, e.g. to disable ipv6 autoconfig on a specific iface.
 
 Cherry-picked from Barrier Breaker
 
@@ -21,16 +20,3 @@ index 0000000..5d9da8a
 +	sed -ne "/^[[:space:]]*net\..*\.$DEVICENAME\./p" /etc/sysctl.conf | \
 +		sysctl -e -p - | logger -t sysctl
 +fi
-diff --git a/package/base-files/files/etc/init.d/sysctl b/package/base-files/files/etc/init.d/sysctl
-index 3480d66..beeb79f 100755
---- a/package/base-files/files/etc/init.d/sysctl
-+++ b/package/base-files/files/etc/init.d/sysctl
-@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
- #!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
- # Copyright (C) 2006 OpenWrt.org 
- 
--START=11
-+START=0
- start() {
- 	[ -f /etc/sysctl.conf ] && sysctl -p -e >&-
- }