diff --git a/package/prosody/Config.in b/package/prosody/Config.in
index 0b01547103..c32ca20e23 100644
--- a/package/prosody/Config.in
+++ b/package/prosody/Config.in
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_PROSODY
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_LUAINTERPRETER
 	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_LUA_5_3
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # luaexpat, luasec, luasocket, luafilesystem
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_LUA_BIT32 if BR2_PACKAGE_LUA_5_1 # runtime
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_LUABITOP if !BR2_PACKAGE_LUAJIT # runtime
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LUAEXPAT # runtime
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LUASEC # runtime
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LUASOCKET # runtime