diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.adoc b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.adoc
index 89fc700452..f0b0508f53 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.adoc
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.adoc
@@ -631,6 +631,12 @@ different steps of the build process.
   This is seldom used, as package usually have no strict requirements on
   the kernel options.
 
+* +LIBFOO_BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FIXUPS+ lists the Busybox configuration
+  options that are needed to use this package especially in some scripts,
+  or at contrario the useless options. This shall be a set of
+  calls to one of the kconfig tweaking option: `KCONFIG_ENABLE_OPT`,
+  `KCONFIG_DISABLE_OPT`, or `KCONFIG_SET_OPT`.
+
 The preferred way to define these variables is:
 
 ----
diff --git a/package/busybox/busybox.mk b/package/busybox/busybox.mk
index 900e5e7877..b7f1439fbc 100644
--- a/package/busybox/busybox.mk
+++ b/package/busybox/busybox.mk
@@ -422,6 +422,7 @@ define BUSYBOX_KCONFIG_FIXUP_CMDS
 	$(BUSYBOX_SET_SELINUX)
 	$(BUSYBOX_SET_LESS_FLAGS)
 	$(BUSYBOX_SET_INDIVIDUAL_BINARIES)
+	$(PACKAGES_BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FIXUPS)
 endef
 
 define BUSYBOX_BUILD_CMDS
diff --git a/package/pkg-generic.mk b/package/pkg-generic.mk
index fb9d9996c8..8fb6f97be8 100644
--- a/package/pkg-generic.mk
+++ b/package/pkg-generic.mk
@@ -1242,6 +1242,9 @@ endif
 ifneq ($$($(2)_USERS),)
 PACKAGES_USERS += $$($(2)_USERS)$$(sep)
 endif
+ifneq ($$($(2)_BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FIXUPS),)
+PACKAGES_BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FIXUPS += $$($(2)_BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FIXUPS)$$(sep)
+endif
 ifneq ($$($(2)_LINUX_CONFIG_FIXUPS),)
 PACKAGES_LINUX_CONFIG_FIXUPS += $$($(2)_LINUX_CONFIG_FIXUPS)$$(sep)
 endif