diff --git a/libs/libinput/Makefile b/libs/libinput/Makefile
index 988488bb4..a90d13c57 100644
--- a/libs/libinput/Makefile
+++ b/libs/libinput/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2007-2015 OpenWrt.org
-#
 # This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
 # See /LICENSE for more information.
 #
@@ -8,12 +5,12 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=libinput
-PKG_VERSION:=1.3.1
+PKG_VERSION:=1.7.3
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.xz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://www.freedesktop.org/software/libinput/
-PKG_MD5SUM:=458fc483f7227d3c4c330f4abd6dfa77
+PKG_HASH:=096d612d2711f0caa2de544976ff3729e6233511ab373808644cc2dd5affcb1d
 
 PKG_LICENSE:=MIT
 PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=COPYING
@@ -33,7 +30,7 @@ define Package/libinput
   CATEGORY:=Libraries
   TITLE:=a library to handle input devices
   URL:=http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libinput/
-  DEPENDS:=+libevdev +mtdev +libudev
+  DEPENDS:=+libevdev +mtdev +libudev-fbsd
 endef
 
 define Package/libinput/description
diff --git a/libs/libinput/patches/001-no-locale.patch b/libs/libinput/patches/001-no-locale.patch
index 8f5c5a1ca..adf9abeb8 100644
--- a/libs/libinput/patches/001-no-locale.patch
+++ b/libs/libinput/patches/001-no-locale.patch
@@ -1,22 +1,38 @@
 --- a/src/libinput-util.c
 +++ b/src/libinput-util.c
-@@ -216,18 +216,10 @@ parse_mouse_wheel_click_angle_property(c
- double
- parse_trackpoint_accel_property(const char *prop)
+@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
+ #include "config.h"
+ 
+ #include <ctype.h>
+-#include <locale.h>
+ #include <stdarg.h>
+ #include <stdbool.h>
+ #include <stdio.h>
+--- a/src/libinput-util.h
++++ b/src/libinput-util.h
+@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
+ #include <assert.h>
+ #include <errno.h>
+ #include <limits.h>
+-#include <locale.h>
+ #include <math.h>
+ #include <stdarg.h>
+ #include <stdbool.h>
+@@ -448,16 +447,8 @@ safe_atod(const char *str, double *val)
  {
+ 	char *endptr;
+ 	double v;
 -	locale_t c_locale;
- 	double accel;
- 	char *endp;
  
 -	/* Create a "C" locale to force strtod to use '.' as separator */
 -	c_locale = newlocale(LC_NUMERIC_MASK, "C", (locale_t)0);
 -	if (c_locale == (locale_t)0)
--		return 0.0;
--
--	accel = strtod_l(prop, &endp, c_locale);
+-		return false;
 -
+-	errno = 0;
+-	v = strtod_l(str, &endptr, c_locale);
 -	freelocale(c_locale);
-+	accel = strtod(prop, &endp);
- 
- 	if (*endp != '\0')
- 		return 0.0;
++	v = strtod(str, &endptr);
+ 	if (errno > 0)
+ 		return false;
+ 	if (str == endptr)
diff --git a/libs/libinput/patches/002-static_assert.patch b/libs/libinput/patches/002-static_assert.patch
index e5aaee26f..e5b12448e 100644
--- a/libs/libinput/patches/002-static_assert.patch
+++ b/libs/libinput/patches/002-static_assert.patch
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 --- a/src/evdev-tablet.c
 +++ b/src/evdev-tablet.c
-@@ -1155,9 +1155,11 @@ static void
+@@ -1204,9 +1204,11 @@ static void
  tablet_mark_all_axes_changed(struct tablet_dispatch *tablet,
  			     struct libinput_tablet_tool *tool)
  {