diff --git a/packages/tools/syslinux/meta b/packages/tools/syslinux/meta
index da90126145..fd9c8432e8 100644
--- a/packages/tools/syslinux/meta
+++ b/packages/tools/syslinux/meta
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="syslinux"
-PKG_VERSION="4.05"
+PKG_VERSION="4.06"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="i386 x86_64"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
diff --git a/packages/tools/syslinux/patches/syslinux-4.05-ext2_fs.h.patch b/packages/tools/syslinux/patches/syslinux-4.05-ext2_fs.h.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ba340422e8..0000000000
--- a/packages/tools/syslinux/patches/syslinux-4.05-ext2_fs.h.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur a/libinstaller/linuxioctl.h b/libinstaller/linuxioctl.h
---- a/libinstaller/linuxioctl.h	2011-12-09 19:28:17.000000000 +0100
-+++ b/libinstaller/linuxioctl.h	2012-04-18 21:02:43.405941674 +0200
-@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
- 
- #undef SECTOR_SIZE		/* Defined in msdos_fs.h for no good reason */
- #undef SECTOR_BITS
--#include <linux/ext2_fs.h>	/* EXT2_IOC_* */
-+#include <ext2fs/ext2_fs.h>	/* EXT2_IOC_* */
- 
- #ifndef FAT_IOCTL_GET_ATTRIBUTES
- # define FAT_IOCTL_GET_ATTRIBUTES	_IOR('r', 0x10, __u32)
diff --git a/packages/tools/syslinux/patches/syslinux-4.05-fix-types.patch b/packages/tools/syslinux/patches/syslinux-4.05-fix-types.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5b756a6919..0000000000
--- a/packages/tools/syslinux/patches/syslinux-4.05-fix-types.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- syslinux-4.05.prep/libinstaller/linuxioctl.h	2011-12-09 13:28:17.000000000 -0500
-+++ syslinux-4.05/libinstaller/linuxioctl.h	2012-02-15 12:28:13.393212119 -0500
-@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
- #ifndef LIBINSTALLER_LINUXIOCTL_H
- #define LIBINSTALLER_LINUXIOCTL_H
- 
-+typedef unsigned short umode_t;
- #include <sys/ioctl.h>
- 
- #define statfs _kernel_statfs	/* HACK to deal with broken 2.4 distros */