diff --git a/packages/sysutils/systemd/package.mk b/packages/sysutils/systemd/package.mk
index cc8c0ddbda..f04c34c806 100644
--- a/packages/sysutils/systemd/package.mk
+++ b/packages/sysutils/systemd/package.mk
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="systemd"
-PKG_VERSION="209"
+PKG_VERSION="210"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
diff --git a/packages/sysutils/systemd/patches/systemd-08_epoll-fix.patch b/packages/sysutils/systemd/patches/systemd-08_epoll-fix.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a808410d0..0000000000
--- a/packages/sysutils/systemd/patches/systemd-08_epoll-fix.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur systemd-209/src/journal/journald-server.c systemd-209.patch/src/journal/journald-server.c
---- systemd-209/src/journal/journald-server.c	2014-02-20 00:03:09.000000000 +0100
-+++ systemd-209.patch/src/journal/journald-server.c	2014-02-21 16:41:49.152296403 +0100
-@@ -1430,6 +1430,14 @@
- 
-         r = sd_event_add_io(s->event, &s->hostname_event_source, s->hostname_fd, 0, dispatch_hostname_change, s);
-         if (r < 0) {
-+                /* kernels prior to 3.2 don't support polling this file.
-+                 * quietly ignore the failure. */
-+                if (r == -EPERM) {
-+                        close_nointr_nofail(s->hostname_fd);
-+                        s->hostname_fd = -1;
-+                        return 0;
-+                }
-+
-                 log_error("Failed to register hostname fd in event loop: %s", strerror(-r));
-                 return r;
-         }