diff --git a/community/linux-tools/01-cpupower-governor-fix.patch b/community/linux-tools/01-cpupower-governor-fix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..714319ea0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/community/linux-tools/01-cpupower-governor-fix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpufreq-set.c b/tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpufreq-set.c
+index b4bf769..f2d1bbd 100644
+--- a/tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpufreq-set.c
++++ b/tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpufreq-set.c
+@@ -296,9 +296,10 @@ int cmd_freq_set(int argc, char **argv)
+ 			struct cpufreq_affected_cpus *cpus;
+ 
+ 			if (!bitmask_isbitset(cpus_chosen, cpu) ||
+-			    cpupower_is_cpu_online(cpu))
++			    cpupower_is_cpu_online(cpu) != 1)
+ 				continue;
+ 
++
+ 			cpus = cpufreq_get_related_cpus(cpu);
+ 			if (!cpus)
+ 				break;
+@@ -316,11 +317,10 @@ int cmd_freq_set(int argc, char **argv)
+ 	     cpu <= bitmask_last(cpus_chosen); cpu++) {
+ 
+ 		if (!bitmask_isbitset(cpus_chosen, cpu) ||
+-		    cpupower_is_cpu_online(cpu))
+-			continue;
+-
+-		if (cpupower_is_cpu_online(cpu) != 1)
++		    cpupower_is_cpu_online(cpu) != 1) {
++      printf(_("Ignoring cpu: %d\n"), cpu);
+ 			continue;
++    }
+ 
+ 		printf(_("Setting cpu: %d\n"), cpu);
+ 		ret = do_one_cpu(cpu, &new_pol, freq, policychange);
diff --git a/community/linux-tools/PKGBUILD b/community/linux-tools/PKGBUILD
index 0c31e40f6..1a0c7df0b 100644
--- a/community/linux-tools/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/linux-tools/PKGBUILD
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ pkgname=(
   'usbip'
 )
 pkgver=4.7
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 license=('GPL2')
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url='http://www.kernel.org'
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ source=("https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-${pkgver}.tar.xz"
         'cpupower.systemd'
         'cpupower.service'
         'usbipd.service'
+        '01-cpupower-governor-fix.patch'
         '02-archlinux-paths.patch'
         '04-fix-usip-h-path.patch')
 md5sums=('SKIP'
@@ -47,11 +48,14 @@ md5sums=('SKIP'
          '34f5ecc19770a1abbcd0fd65bfd1f065'
          '86c4e419e4ba80835c330d49ba3f56ad'
          'bb35634f480325a78b943f7e10165e86'
+         '33c871519adfd4e5575643c4579d019b'
          '1bc4f8c7a21a30e1a873d07e69fb698b'
          'a73ea3ea6d9c9ecb1cc910871eead3ff')
 
 prepare() {
   cd linux-$pkgver
+  # apply stable kernel patch
+  #xz -kcd "$srcdir"/patch-4.7.1.xz | patch -p1 -N
   # apply patch from the source array (should be a pacman feature)
   local filename
   for filename in "${source[@]}"; do