diff --git a/target/linux/generic/patches-3.12/998-enable_wilink_platform_without_drivers.patch b/target/linux/generic/patches-3.12/998-enable_wilink_platform_without_drivers.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d317de1102
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/linux/generic/patches-3.12/998-enable_wilink_platform_without_drivers.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+We use backports for driver updates - make sure we can compile in the glue code regardless
+
+Signed-off-by: Imre Kaloz <kaloz@openwrt.org>
+
+--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/Kconfig
++++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/Kconfig
+@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ source "drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/K
+ 
+ config WILINK_PLATFORM_DATA
+ 	bool "TI WiLink platform data"
+-	depends on WLCORE_SDIO || WL1251_SDIO
++	depends on WLCORE_SDIO || WL1251_SDIO || ARCH_OMAP2PLUS
+ 	default y
+ 	---help---
+ 	Small platform data bit needed to pass data to the sdio modules.