diff --git a/core/linux-kirkwood/PKGBUILD b/core/linux-kirkwood/PKGBUILD
index 60e2faad1..3f315cd01 100644
--- a/core/linux-kirkwood/PKGBUILD
+++ b/core/linux-kirkwood/PKGBUILD
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ pkgbase=linux-kirkwood
 pkgname=('linux-kirkwood' 'linux-headers-kirkwood')
 #pkgname=linux-test       # Build kernel with a different name
 _kernelname=${pkgname#linux}
-_basekernel=3.12
+_basekernel=3.12.1
 pkgver=${_basekernel}
 pkgrel=1
 cryptover=1.6
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ source=("ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-${_basekernel}.tar.xz"
 	"http://algo.ing.unimo.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/patches/$(echo $_basekernel |cut -c 1-4).0-${bfqver}/0002-block-introduce-the-BFQ-${bfqver}-I-O-sched-for-$(echo $_basekernel |cut -c 1-4).patch"
 	"http://algo.ing.unimo.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/patches/$(echo $_basekernel |cut -c 1-4).0-${bfqver}/0003-block-bfq-add-Early-Queue-Merge-EQM-to-BFQ-${bfqver}-for-$(echo $_basekernel |cut -c 1-4).0.patch")
 
-md5sums=('cc6ee608854e0da4b64f6c1ff8b6398c'
+md5sums=('f6f34baf553f278ff4637d8eaeff5dcd'
          '1c87cbbc3355eb8741143b4595d0bb5e'
          'f7a4e67288ff6d2148bc8175a0a18ac3'
          'SKIP'
diff --git a/core/linux-kirkwood/linux-kirkwood.install b/core/linux-kirkwood/linux-kirkwood.install
index aa5fa4ed4..56e9605eb 100644
--- a/core/linux-kirkwood/linux-kirkwood.install
+++ b/core/linux-kirkwood/linux-kirkwood.install
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # arg 2:  the old package version
 
 KERNEL_NAME=-kirkwood
-KERNEL_VERSION=3.12.0-1-ARCH
+KERNEL_VERSION=3.12.1-1-ARCH
 
 post_install () {
   # updating module dependencies