diff --git a/packages/x11/driver/xf86-video-nvidia-legacy/patches/xf86-video-nvidia-legacy-05-fix-SUBDIRS-removed-in-5.4-rc2.patch b/packages/x11/driver/xf86-video-nvidia-legacy/patches/xf86-video-nvidia-legacy-05-fix-SUBDIRS-removed-in-5.4-rc2.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3b1d555098
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/x11/driver/xf86-video-nvidia-legacy/patches/xf86-video-nvidia-legacy-05-fix-SUBDIRS-removed-in-5.4-rc2.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From 8d1388c2ec0febfd77527a8bc5791a5b75bfcb66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: MilhouseVH <milhouseVH.github@nmacleod.com>
+Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 04:08:51 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix deprecated SUBDIRS= in 5.4-rc2
+
+Ref: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.4-rc2&id=7e35b42591c058b91282f95ce3b2cf0c05ffe93d
+---
+ kernel/nvidia-modules-common.mk | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/kernel/nvidia-modules-common.mk b/kernel/nvidia-modules-common.mk
+index 918e8a9..8d36dbb 100644
+--- a/kernel/nvidia-modules-common.mk
++++ b/kernel/nvidia-modules-common.mk
+@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ ifndef NV_VERBOSE
+ endif
+ 
+ KBUILD_PARAMS += KBUILD_VERBOSE=$(NV_VERBOSE)
+-KBUILD_PARAMS += -C $(KERNEL_SOURCES) SUBDIRS=$(PWD)
++KBUILD_PARAMS += -C $(KERNEL_SOURCES) M=$(PWD)
+ KBUILD_PARAMS += ARCH=$(ARCH)
+ 
+ #
+-- 
+2.14.1
+