diff --git a/srcpkgs/kernel/common-vars b/srcpkgs/kernel/common-vars
index 0a5a0fd2f89..29a29744a4d 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/kernel/common-vars
+++ b/srcpkgs/kernel/common-vars
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 # build templates.
 _kernel_ver=2.6.38
 #version=${_kernel_ver}
-_kernel_patch_ver=3
+_kernel_patch_ver=4
 version=${_kernel_ver}.${_kernel_patch_ver}
 wrksrc="linux-$version"
 distfiles="${KERNEL_SITE}/kernel/v2.6/linux-$version.tar.bz2"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
-checksum=6f3bbedc0c9a7670c81841bf64b69f4f21dfe0efe533270452be505216231802
+checksum=dad61f6c980209d60d5b891324e9db04b9c80d16b4515d9e7a550388899bc46c
diff --git a/srcpkgs/kernel/files/x86_64-dotconfig b/srcpkgs/kernel/files/x86_64-dotconfig
index fe95ca28688..2cf5b620bd3 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/kernel/files/x86_64-dotconfig
+++ b/srcpkgs/kernel/files/x86_64-dotconfig
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
-# Linux/x86_64 2.6.38.1 Kernel Configuration
-# Thu Mar 24 09:53:02 2011
+# Linux/x86_64 2.6.38.4 Kernel Configuration
+# Wed Apr 27 14:52:46 2011
 #
 CONFIG_64BIT=y
 # CONFIG_X86_32 is not set
@@ -4882,6 +4882,7 @@ CONFIG_ASYNC_RAID6_TEST=m
 # CONFIG_SAMPLES is not set
 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KGDB=y
 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK=y
+CONFIG_TEST_KSTRTOX=m
 CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM=y
 CONFIG_X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP=y
 CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y