diff --git a/toolchain/patch-kernel.sh b/toolchain/patch-kernel.sh
index 5a29c6773a..e2e89486d3 100755
--- a/toolchain/patch-kernel.sh
+++ b/toolchain/patch-kernel.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#! /bin/sh
+#! /bin/bash
 # A little script I whipped up to make it easy to
 # patch source trees and have sane error handling
 # -Erik