diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils-initscripts/files/PD.patch b/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils-initscripts/files/PD.patch
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+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [licensing]
+
+Index: modutils-initscripts-1.0/LICENSE
+===================================================================
+--- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
++++ modutils-initscripts-1.0/LICENSE	2010-12-06 14:26:03.570339002 -0800
+@@ -0,0 +1 @@
++Public Domain
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils-initscripts/files/modutils.sh b/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils-initscripts/files/modutils.sh
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+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils-initscripts/files/modutils.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+### BEGIN INIT INFO
+# Provides:          module-init-tools
+# Required-Start:    
+# Required-Stop:     
+# Should-Start:      checkroot
+# Should-stop:
+# Default-Start:     S
+# Default-Stop:
+# Short-Description: Process /etc/modules.
+# Description:       Load the modules listed in /etc/modules.
+### END INIT INFO
+
+LOAD_MODULE=modprobe
+[ -f /proc/modules ] || exit 0
+[ -f /etc/modules ] || [ -d /etc/modules-load.d ] || exit 0
+[ -e /sbin/modprobe ] || LOAD_MODULE=insmod
+
+if [ ! -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep ]; then
+	[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && echo "Calculating module dependencies ..."
+	depmod -Ae
+fi
+
+loaded_modules=" "
+
+process_file() {
+	file=$1
+
+	(cat $file; echo; ) |
+	while read module args
+	do
+		case "$module" in
+			\#*|"") continue ;;
+		esac
+		[ -n "$(echo $loaded_modules | grep " $module ")" ] && continue
+		[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && echo -n "$module "
+		eval "$LOAD_MODULE $module $args >/dev/null 2>&1"
+		loaded_modules="${loaded_modules}${module} "
+	done
+}
+
+[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && echo -n "Loading modules: "
+[ -f /etc/modules ] && process_file /etc/modules
+
+[ -d /etc/modules-load.d ] || exit 0
+
+for f in /etc/modules-load.d/*.conf; do
+	process_file $f
+done
+[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && echo
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils-initscripts/modutils-initscripts.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils-initscripts/modutils-initscripts.bb
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+SUMMARY = "Initscript for auto-loading kernel modules on boot"
+SECTION = "base"
+LICENSE = "PD"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=7bf87fc37976e93ec66ad84fac58c098"
+SRC_URI = "file://modutils.sh \
+	   file://PD.patch"
+
+PR = "r7"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}"
+
+INITSCRIPT_NAME = "modutils.sh"
+INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 05 S ."
+
+inherit update-rc.d
+
+do_compile () {
+}
+
+do_install () {
+	install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/
+	install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/modutils.sh ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/
+}
+
+DEPENDS_append = " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','systemd-systemctl-native','',d)}"
+pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
+	if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','true','false',d)}; then
+		if [ -n "$D" ]; then
+			OPTS="--root=$D"
+		fi
+		systemctl $OPTS mask modutils.service
+	fi
+}