diff --git a/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.conf b/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.conf
index 906e79e2c..e101e886c 100644
--- a/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.conf
+++ b/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.conf
@@ -26,5 +26,6 @@
 # point to the strip binary (would need to be -s ...)
 
 STRIP=""
+CC_WRAPPER_REMOVE="-Werror"
 
 postinstall="install_init mdadm $confdir/mdadm.init"
diff --git a/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.desc b/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.desc
index 047f078fc..77eae5765 100644
--- a/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.desc
+++ b/package/base/mdadm/mdadm.desc
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 2.5.6
+[V] 2.6
 [P] X -?---5---9 195.200
 
-[D] 968018393 mdadm-2.5.6.tar.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
+[D] 3235121256 mdadm-2.6.tar.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/