diff --git a/meta/packages/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/functions b/meta/packages/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/functions
index 514618770a..689fd32b39 100644
--- a/meta/packages/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/functions
+++ b/meta/packages/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/functions
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #               shell scripts in the /etc/init.d directory.
 #
 
-cpuinfo_id() {		# return the Hardware module ID
-    awk 'BEGIN { FS=": " } /Hardware/ { print $2 } ' </proc/cpuinfo
+machine_id() {		# return the machine ID
+    awk 'BEGIN { FS=": " } /Hardware/ { gsub(" ", "_", $2); print tolower($2) } ' </proc/cpuinfo
 }
 
 killproc() {		# kill the named process(es)
diff --git a/meta/packages/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb b/meta/packages/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
index d2fc3d5e52..377cc14102 100644
--- a/meta/packages/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/packages/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ PRIORITY = "required"
 DEPENDS = "makedevs"
 RDEPENDS = "makedevs"
 LICENSE = "GPL"
-PR = "r116"
+PR = "r117"
 
 SRC_URI = "file://functions \
            file://halt \