diff --git a/import-layers/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/start-stop-daemon/start-stop-daemon/0001-dpkg-start-stop-daemon-Accept-SIG-prefixed-signal-na.patch b/import-layers/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/start-stop-daemon/start-stop-daemon/0001-dpkg-start-stop-daemon-Accept-SIG-prefixed-signal-na.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e988efd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/import-layers/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/start-stop-daemon/start-stop-daemon/0001-dpkg-start-stop-daemon-Accept-SIG-prefixed-signal-na.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+From 685645a20e39cf2ab7db8d1f5e3666a4228abca8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@ni.com>
+Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 09:44:57 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH 1/1] dpkg start-stop-daemon: Accept SIG prefixed signal names
+
+---
+ utils/start-stop-daemon.c | 9 +++++++++
+ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/utils/start-stop-daemon.c b/utils/start-stop-daemon.c
+index 6aebe9b..e805082 100644
+--- a/utils/start-stop-daemon.c
++++ b/utils/start-stop-daemon.c
+@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
+  *                 and Andreas Schuldei <andreas@schuldei.org>
+  *
+  * Changes by Ian Jackson: added --retry (and associated rearrangements).
++ *
++ * Changes by Haris Okanovic <haris.okanovic@ni.com> to support 'SIG'
++ *     prefixed signal names placed in public domain as well.
+  */
+ 
+ #include <config.h>
+@@ -661,6 +664,12 @@ parse_signal(const char *sig_str, int *sig_num)
+ 	if (parse_unsigned(sig_str, 10, sig_num) == 0)
+ 		return 0;
+ 
++        /* Skip over optional "SIG" prefix */
++        if (strncmp(sig_str, "SIG", 3) == 0) {
++                warning("Using deprecated signal name %s. Drop the 'SIG' prefix.\n", sig_str);
++                sig_str += 3;
++        }
++
+ 	for (i = 0; i < array_count(siglist); i++) {
+ 		if (strcmp(sig_str, siglist[i].name) == 0) {
+ 			*sig_num = siglist[i].signal;
+-- 
+2.1.4
+