diff --git a/cfg/posix.cfg b/cfg/posix.cfg
index eab1ba014..23d2d8f95 100644
--- a/cfg/posix.cfg
+++ b/cfg/posix.cfg
@@ -803,6 +803,7 @@
   <podtype name="termios"/>
   <podtype name="intptr_t"/>
   <podtype name="timespec"/>
+  <podtype name="timeval"/>
   <!-- http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/arpa/inet.h.html -->
   <!-- uint32_t htonl(uint32_t); -->
   <function name="htonl">