diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/0001-client-conf-Add-allow-autospawn-for-root.patch b/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/0001-client-conf-Add-allow-autospawn-for-root.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d19eb7c19b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/0001-client-conf-Add-allow-autospawn-for-root.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+From 1cb5647f76dc8cd7bacbce2a64fac9e6c2dc3b16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Tanu Kaskinen <tanu.kaskinen@linux.intel.com>
+Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:32:43 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH] client-conf: Add allow-autospawn-for-root
+
+Usually autospawning for root is a bad idea, since it can easily
+interfere with other users' PulseAudio instances, but in embedded
+environments where only root exists, autospawning is fine.
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.pulseaudio.general/23549]
+
+Signed-off-by: Tanu Kaskinen <tanu.kaskinen@linux.intel.com>
+---
+ man/pulse-client.conf.5.xml.in | 9 +++++++++
+ src/pulse/client-conf.c        | 1 +
+ src/pulse/client-conf.h        | 1 +
+ src/pulse/client.conf.in       | 1 +
+ src/pulse/context.c            | 2 +-
+ 5 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/man/pulse-client.conf.5.xml.in b/man/pulse-client.conf.5.xml.in
+index 1002dbe..0058490 100644
+--- a/man/pulse-client.conf.5.xml.in
++++ b/man/pulse-client.conf.5.xml.in
+@@ -71,6 +71,15 @@ License along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+     </option>
+ 
+     <option>
++      <p><opt>allow-autospawn-for-root=</opt> Allow autospawning also for root.
++      Takes a boolean value, defaults to <opt>no</opt>. If the <opt>autospawn
++      </opt> option is disabled, this option has no effect. Autospawning for
++      root is disabled by default, because running PulseAudio as root will
++      interfere with regular users' PulseAudio instances. This option should be
++      enabled only in environments where there are no regular users at all.</p>
++    </option>
++
++    <option>
+       <p><opt>daemon-binary=</opt> Path to the PulseAudio daemon to
+       run when autospawning. Defaults to a path configured at compile
+       time.</p>
+diff --git a/src/pulse/client-conf.c b/src/pulse/client-conf.c
+index 83331f8..0474583 100644
+--- a/src/pulse/client-conf.c
++++ b/src/pulse/client-conf.c
+@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ void pa_client_conf_load(pa_client_conf *c, bool load_from_x11, bool load_from_e
+         { "default-server",         pa_config_parse_string,   &c->default_server, NULL },
+         { "default-dbus-server",    pa_config_parse_string,   &c->default_dbus_server, NULL },
+         { "autospawn",              pa_config_parse_bool,     &c->autospawn, NULL },
++        { "allow-autospawn-for-root", pa_config_parse_bool,   &c->allow_autospawn_for_root, NULL },
+         { "cookie-file",            pa_config_parse_string,   &c->cookie_file_from_client_conf, NULL },
+         { "disable-shm",            pa_config_parse_bool,     &c->disable_shm, NULL },
+         { "enable-shm",             pa_config_parse_not_bool, &c->disable_shm, NULL },
+diff --git a/src/pulse/client-conf.h b/src/pulse/client-conf.h
+index eac705a..131393a 100644
+--- a/src/pulse/client-conf.h
++++ b/src/pulse/client-conf.h
+@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ typedef struct pa_client_conf {
+     char *cookie_file_from_application;
+     char *cookie_file_from_client_conf;
+     bool autospawn, disable_shm, auto_connect_localhost, auto_connect_display;
++    bool allow_autospawn_for_root;
+     size_t shm_size;
+ } pa_client_conf;
+ 
+diff --git a/src/pulse/client.conf.in b/src/pulse/client.conf.in
+index 26b7790..69830ef 100644
+--- a/src/pulse/client.conf.in
++++ b/src/pulse/client.conf.in
+@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
+ ; default-dbus-server =
+ 
+ ; autospawn = yes
++; allow-autospawn-for-root = no
+ ; daemon-binary = @PA_BINARY@
+ ; extra-arguments = --log-target=syslog
+ 
+diff --git a/src/pulse/context.c b/src/pulse/context.c
+index 4bc445f..d6c3f6d 100644
+--- a/src/pulse/context.c
++++ b/src/pulse/context.c
+@@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ int pa_context_connect(
+     if (!(flags & PA_CONTEXT_NOAUTOSPAWN) && c->conf->autospawn) {
+ 
+ #ifdef HAVE_GETUID
+-        if (getuid() == 0)
++        if (!c->conf->allow_autospawn_for_root && getuid() == 0)
+             pa_log_debug("Not doing autospawn since we are root.");
+         else {
+             c->do_autospawn = true;
+-- 
+1.9.3
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio_6.0.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio_6.0.bb
index fb33c7c85d..465b224641 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio_6.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio_6.0.bb
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ require pulseaudio.inc
 
 SRC_URI = "http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/${BP}.tar.xz \
            file://0001-padsp-Make-it-compile-on-musl.patch \
+           file://0001-client-conf-Add-allow-autospawn-for-root.patch \
            file://volatiles.04_pulse \
 "
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "b691e83b7434c678dffacfa3a027750e"