diff --git a/target/linux/generic-2.4/patches/051-remove_pcmcia_modinst_compat.patch b/target/linux/generic-2.4/patches/051-remove_pcmcia_modinst_compat.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..091e4ba7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/linux/generic-2.4/patches/051-remove_pcmcia_modinst_compat.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+--- linux.old/Makefile	Tue Oct 10 22:24:41 2006
++++ linux.dev/Makefile	Tue Oct 10 22:26:19 2006
+@@ -427,17 +427,8 @@
+ depmod_opts	:= -b $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH) -r
+ endif
+ .PHONY: _modinst_post
+-_modinst_post: _modinst_post_pcmcia
++_modinst_post:
+ 	if [ -r System.map ]; then $(DEPMOD) -ae -F System.map $(depmod_opts) $(KERNELRELEASE); fi
+-
+-# Backwards compatibilty symlinks for people still using old versions
+-# of pcmcia-cs with hard coded pathnames on insmod.  Remove
+-# _modinst_post_pcmcia for kernel 2.4.1.
+-.PHONY: _modinst_post_pcmcia
+-_modinst_post_pcmcia:
+-	cd $(MODLIB); \
+-	mkdir -p pcmcia; \
+-	find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia
+ 
+ .PHONY: $(patsubst %, _modinst_%, $(SUBDIRS))
+ $(patsubst %, _modinst_%, $(SUBDIRS)) :