diff --git a/package/sg3_utils/0001-support-uclinux-as-a-linux.patch b/package/sg3_utils/0001-support-uclinux-as-a-linux.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d9106cd9f8..0000000000
--- a/package/sg3_utils/0001-support-uclinux-as-a-linux.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-Recognise uclinux as a linux
-
-Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
-
-diff -durN sg3_utils-1.42.orig/configure.ac sg3_utils-1.42/configure.ac
---- sg3_utils-1.42.orig/configure.ac	2015-10-21 01:10:59.000000000 +0200
-+++ sg3_utils-1.42/configure.ac	2016-08-14 19:30:37.841766149 +0200
-@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
- 
- # Define platform-specific symbol.
- AM_CONDITIONAL(OS_FREEBSD, [echo $host_os | grep 'freebsd' > /dev/null])
--AM_CONDITIONAL(OS_LINUX, [echo $host_os | grep '^linux' > /dev/null])
-+AM_CONDITIONAL(OS_LINUX, [echo $host_os | grep -E '^(uc)?linux' > /dev/null])
- AM_CONDITIONAL(OS_OSF, [echo $host_os | grep '^osf' > /dev/null])
- AM_CONDITIONAL(OS_SOLARIS, [echo $host_os | grep '^solaris' > /dev/null])
- AM_CONDITIONAL(OS_WIN32_MINGW, [echo $host_os | grep '^mingw' > /dev/null])
diff --git a/package/sg3_utils/sg3_utils.hash b/package/sg3_utils/sg3_utils.hash
index 39510b4dc2..ff2ef55180 100644
--- a/package/sg3_utils/sg3_utils.hash
+++ b/package/sg3_utils/sg3_utils.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Locally calculated from download (no sig, hash)
-sha256  59c268b10b93ce31a517af13e19c88f285c12b7dd065f50e36b16a7b6fa7b9a0  sg3_utils-1.46.tar.xz
+sha256  ddb0cab85fedd8b0db020f3e3f02f6967a055616bf16ea9d5c7408cde41472b2  sg3_utils-1.47.tar.xz
 
 # Hash for license files
-sha256  256ec2d7e4e79faabb105ed1ddf32aec11d830c3dadb955a4ab2616eb87439ba  COPYING
+sha256  d212debdb0a5d7754c977f6dc53bb6c88b4ace7ab784ddbccd06bb970adb1a37  COPYING
 sha256  8ddd1d82f2be2f5cbd5b5c3b5c2ee94a90d2ca7112958448da74dd78384fd96a  BSD_LICENSE
diff --git a/package/sg3_utils/sg3_utils.mk b/package/sg3_utils/sg3_utils.mk
index 1983a12261..055f7befb9 100644
--- a/package/sg3_utils/sg3_utils.mk
+++ b/package/sg3_utils/sg3_utils.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SG3_UTILS_VERSION = 1.46
+SG3_UTILS_VERSION = 1.47
 SG3_UTILS_SOURCE = sg3_utils-$(SG3_UTILS_VERSION).tar.xz
 SG3_UTILS_SITE = http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p
 SG3_UTILS_LICENSE = BSD-2-Clause (library)
@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@ SG3_UTILS_LICENSE += , GPL-2.0+ (programs), BSD-2-Clause (programs)
 endif
 SG3_UTILS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING BSD_LICENSE
 
-# Patching configure.ac/Makefile.am
-SG3_UTILS_AUTORECONF = YES
-
 # install the libsgutils2 library
 SG3_UTILS_INSTALL_STAGING = YES