diff --git a/community/linux-tools/PKGBUILD b/community/linux-tools/PKGBUILD
index 01f16cbf5..a9712af16 100644
--- a/community/linux-tools/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/linux-tools/PKGBUILD
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ pkgname=('linux-tools-meta'
          'perf'
          'cpupower'
          'usbip')
-pkgver=3.9
-pkgrel=3
+pkgver=3.10
+pkgrel=1
 license=('GPL2')
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url='http://www.kernel.org'
@@ -32,19 +32,21 @@ source=("http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-$pkgver.tar.xz"
         'cpupower.systemd'
         'cpupower.service'
         'usbipd.service')
-sha256sums=('60bc3e64ee5dc778de2cd7cd7640abf518a4c9d4f31b8ed624e16fad53f54541'
+sha256sums=('df27fa92d27a9c410bfe6c4a89f141638500d7eadcca5cce578954efc2ad3544'
             '4fa509949d6863d001075fa3e8671eff2599c046d20c98bb4a70778595cd1c3f'
             'fbf6e0ce6eb0ef15703fe212958de6ca46e62188900b5e9f9272ed3cc9cfd54e'
             'a89284d0ecb556ca53a66d1c2087b5fd6d0a901ab2769cd3aebb93f4478905dc'
             '2e187734d8aec58a3046d79883510d779aa93fb3ab20bd3132c1a607ebe5498f')
 
-build() {
+prepare() {
   # apply stable patching set
-  if (( NOEXTRACT == 0 )) && [[ -e "$srcdir"/patch-* ]]; then
+  if [[ -e "$srcdir"/patch-* ]]; then
     msg2 'Applying stable patch set'
     patch -N -p1 -i "$srcdir"/patch-*
   fi
-
+}
+ 
+build() {
   msg2 'Build libtraceevent'
   pushd linux-$pkgver/tools/lib/traceevent
   make