diff --git a/package/base/cdrtools/cdrtools.conf b/package/base/cdrtools/cdrtools.conf
index 61f0596bb..9aa44c3cb 100644
--- a/package/base/cdrtools/cdrtools.conf
+++ b/package/base/cdrtools/cdrtools.conf
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
 
 # ./configure is a dummy script and does no work ...
 runconf=0
+
 makeinstopt="$makeinstopt INS_BASE=$root/$prefix"
+
+# this avoids conflicting types for e.g. blkcnt_t in types.h
 var_append GCC_WRAPPER_REMOVE " " "-I/usr/src/linux/include"
 
diff --git a/package/base/cdrtools/linux-2.6.7-__user.patch b/package/base/cdrtools/linux-2.6.7-__user.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0521efbeb..000000000
--- a/package/base/cdrtools/linux-2.6.7-__user.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# 
-# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-# Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
-# the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
-# the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
-# 
-# ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/base/cdrtools/linux-2.6.7-__user.patch
-# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Clifford Wolf
-# 
-# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
-# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
-# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
-# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
-# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
-# version.
-# 
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
---- ./libscg/scsi-linux-sg.c.orig	2002-10-21 19:20:35.000000000 +0300
-+++ ./libscg/scsi-linux-sg.c	2004-06-27 15:23:02.670972688 +0300
-@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@
- #include "scsi/scsi.h"
- #endif
- 
-+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= 0x020607
-+#include <linux/compiler.h>
-+#endif
-+
- #include "scsi/sg.h"
- 
- #undef sense			/* conflict in struct cdrom_generic_command */