diff --git a/package/base/linux/linux.desc b/package/base/linux/linux.desc
index 95c05138c..b94fc742b 100644
--- a/package/base/linux/linux.desc
+++ b/package/base/linux/linux.desc
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@
 #endif
 
 #if xpkg == linux26.*
-[V] 2.6.21.5
-[D] 2287474728 linux-2.6.21.5.tar.bz2 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/
+[V] 2.6.22.1
+[D] 3202303695 linux-2.6.22.1.tar.bz2 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/
 #endif
 
 [CD] <COPY> for x in $cachedir/linux2[46].cache; do cp $x $confdir/$pkg.cache; done
diff --git a/package/base/linux/linux26/76-no-new-variable.patch b/package/base/linux/linux26/76-no-new-variable.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index be792f314..000000000
--- a/package/base/linux/linux26/76-no-new-variable.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +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/linux/linux26/76-no-new-variable.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 ---
-
---- ./include/asm-i386/system.h.vanilla	2006-01-10 17:46:21.000000000 +0100
-+++ ./include/asm-i386/system.h	2006-01-10 17:48:39.000000000 +0100
-@@ -269,26 +269,26 @@
- #endif
- 
- static inline unsigned long __cmpxchg(volatile void *ptr, unsigned long old,
--				      unsigned long new, int size)
-+				      unsigned long ulnew, int size)
- {
- 	unsigned long prev;
- 	switch (size) {
- 	case 1:
- 		__asm__ __volatile__(LOCK_PREFIX "cmpxchgb %b1,%2"
- 				     : "=a"(prev)
--				     : "q"(new), "m"(*__xg(ptr)), "0"(old)
-+				     : "q"(ulnew), "m"(*__xg(ptr)), "0"(old)
- 				     : "memory");
- 		return prev;
- 	case 2:
- 		__asm__ __volatile__(LOCK_PREFIX "cmpxchgw %w1,%2"
- 				     : "=a"(prev)
--				     : "r"(new), "m"(*__xg(ptr)), "0"(old)
-+				     : "r"(ulnew), "m"(*__xg(ptr)), "0"(old)
- 				     : "memory");
- 		return prev;
- 	case 4:
- 		__asm__ __volatile__(LOCK_PREFIX "cmpxchgl %1,%2"
- 				     : "=a"(prev)
--				     : "r"(new), "m"(*__xg(ptr)), "0"(old)
-+				     : "r"(ulnew), "m"(*__xg(ptr)), "0"(old)
- 				     : "memory");
- 		return prev;
- 	}