diff --git a/package/usbutils/Config.in b/package/usbutils/Config.in
index 7e7029bbfe..fb37b8a9e3 100644
--- a/package/usbutils/Config.in
+++ b/package/usbutils/Config.in
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_USBUTILS
 	bool "usbutils"
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # libusb
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 # libusb
-	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_UDEV # needs hwdb
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_LIBUDEV
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_HWDATA if BR2_PACKAGE_LIBUDEV_ZERO
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_HWDATA_USB_IDS if BR2_PACKAGE_LIBUDEV_ZERO
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBICONV if !BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBUSB
 	help
@@ -10,7 +12,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_USBUTILS
 
 	  http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/
 
-comment "usbutils needs udev /dev management and toolchain w/ threads, gcc >= 4.9"
+comment "usbutils needs libudev and a toolchain w/ threads, wchar, dynamic library, gcc >= 4.9"
 	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || \
-		!BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_UDEV || \
+		!BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_LIBUDEV || \
 		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9
diff --git a/package/usbutils/usbutils.mk b/package/usbutils/usbutils.mk
index 5b6037afa2..afeb7ded2a 100644
--- a/package/usbutils/usbutils.mk
+++ b/package/usbutils/usbutils.mk
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 USBUTILS_VERSION = 019
 USBUTILS_SOURCE = usbutils-$(USBUTILS_VERSION).tar.xz
 USBUTILS_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/linux/utils/usb/usbutils
-USBUTILS_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf libusb udev
+USBUTILS_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf libudev libusb
 USBUTILS_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+ (utils) GPL-2.0 or GPL-3.0 (lsusb.py)
 USBUTILS_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSES/GPL-2.0-only.txt LICENSES/GPL-3.0-only.txt