diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog
index 0be412b..deeea8b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ if [ -f /etc/syslog-startup.conf ]; then
 	if [ "$REDUCE" = "yes" ]; then
 		SYSLOG_ARGS="$SYSLOG_ARGS -S"
 	fi
+	if [ -n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then
+	    SYSLOG_ARGS="$SYSLOG_ARGS -l $LOGLEVEL"
+	fi
 else
 	# default: log to 16K shm circular buffer
 	SYSLOG_ARGS="-C"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog-startup.conf b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog-startup.conf
index f58cbe5..83b86f2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog-startup.conf
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog-startup.conf
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ REDUCE=no			# reduce-size logging
 #ROTATEGENS=3			# keep X generations of rotated logs
 BUFFERSIZE=64			# size of circular buffer [kByte]
 FOREGROUND=no			# run in foreground (don't use!)
+#LOGLEVEL=5			# local log level (between 1 and 8)