diff --git a/package/base/linux24/linux24.conf b/package/base/linux24/linux24.conf
index 79835df65..1fea9b533 100644
--- a/package/base/linux24/linux24.conf
+++ b/package/base/linux24/linux24.conf
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ main_lx() {
 		  cp -vf vmlinux $root/boot/vmlinux
 		eval $MAKE zImage
 		# copy some specially pre-processed files with version
-		for file in `(cd arch/ppc/boot/images/ ; ls zImage.*)` ; do
+		for x in $(cd arch/ppc/boot/images/ ; ls zImage.*) ; do
 			cp -v arch/ppc/boot/images/$x
 			  $root/boot/${x/zImage/zImage-$ver}
 		done