diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libnl/files/enable-serial-tests.patch b/meta/recipes-support/libnl/files/enable-serial-tests.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index db774ad821..0000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libnl/files/enable-serial-tests.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-From b1476d89bf7a0bc6062438731ee4e9026696328b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Eric Xu <chi.xu@windriver.com>
-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 03:38:49 +0000
-Subject: [PATCH] Add ptest for libnl
-
-serial-tests is required to generate those targets.
-
-Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [oe-specific]
-Signed-off-by: Eric Xu <chi.xu@windriver.com>
----
- configure.ac | 2 +-
- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
-index dfead98..2cc8257 100644
---- a/configure.ac
-+++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ AC_INIT(libnl, [libnl_version], [], [], [http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/])
- AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([lib/defs.h])
- AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
- AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
--AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall foreign subdir-objects])
-+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall foreign subdir-objects serial-tests])
- m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES(yes)], [])
- m4_ifdef([AM_PROG_AR], [AM_PROG_AR])
- 
--- 
-2.13.3
-
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libnl/files/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-support/libnl/files/run-ptest
index e5c9eb0a32..0d0c665cd2 100755
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libnl/files/run-ptest
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libnl/files/run-ptest
@@ -1,16 +1,3 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#! /bin/sh
 
-num_fail=0
-
-for test in check*
-do
-    ./"$test" \
-         && echo "PASS: $test" \
-         || {
-            echo "FAIL: $test"
-            num_fail=$(( ${num_fail} + 1))
-         }
-
-done
-
-exit $num_fail
+CK_AUTOMAKE=1 ./check-all
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libnl/libnl_3.7.0.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libnl/libnl_3.7.0.bb
index ef286a6429..38d21ffe9c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libnl/libnl_3.7.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libnl/libnl_3.7.0.bb
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 DEPENDS = "flex-native bison-native"
 
 SRC_URI = "${GITHUB_BASE_URI}/download/${BPN}${@d.getVar('PV').replace('.','_')}/${BP}.tar.gz \
-           file://enable-serial-tests.patch \
            file://run-ptest \
            "
 
@@ -51,26 +50,15 @@ FILES:${PN}-xfrm  = "${libdir}/libnl-xfrm-3.so.*"
 RREPLACES:${PN}-genl = "libnl-genl2"
 RCONFLICTS:${PN}-genl = "libnl-genl2"
 
-RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "libcheck"
-RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-ptest += "kernel-module-dummy kernel-module-bonding"
 DEPENDS += "${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', 'libcheck', '', d)}"
-
-# make sure the tests don't link against wrong so file
-EXTRA_OECONF += "${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', '--disable-rpath', '', d)}"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-ptest += "kernel-module-dummy kernel-module-bonding"
 
 do_compile_ptest() {
-    # hack to remove the call to `make runtest-TESTS`
-    sed -i 's/$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) runtest-TESTS//g' Makefile
-    oe_runmake check
+    oe_runmake ./tests/check-all
 }
 
-do_install_ptest(){
-    # legacy? tests are also installed, but ptest-runner will not run them
-    # upstream are not running these tests in their CI pipeline
-    # issue opened https://github.com/thom311/libnl/issues/270
-    install -m 0755 tests/.libs/* ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/
-    # contains build paths
-    rm ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/*.la
+do_install_ptest() {
+    ./libtool install install ./tests/check-all ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/
 }
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"