diff --git a/ARM_io_getevents.diff b/ARM_io_getevents.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index 342fc0d..0000000
--- a/ARM_io_getevents.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-# from http://projects.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-commits/2006-October/001139.html
-diff -Napur _/src/io_getevents.c libaio-0.3.104/src/io_getevents.c
---- _/src/io_getevents.c	2003-06-18 21:58:21.000000000 +0200
-+++ libaio-0.3.104/src/io_getevents.c	2009-07-30 01:15:06.687173277 +0200
-@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
- #include <time.h>
- #include "syscall.h"
- 
--io_syscall5(int, __io_getevents_0_4, io_getevents, io_context_t, ctx, long, min_nr, long, nr, struct io_event *, events, struct timespec *, timeout)
-+io_syscall5(int, io_getevents_0_4, io_getevents, io_context_t, ctx, long, min_nr, long, nr, struct io_event *, events, struct timespec *, timeout)
- 
- #define AIO_RING_MAGIC                  0xa10a10a1
- 
-@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ int io_getevents_0_4(io_context_t ctx, l
- 	}
- 	
- do_syscall:	
--	return __io_getevents_0_4(ctx, min_nr, nr, events, timeout);
-+	return io_getevents_0_4(ctx, min_nr, nr, events, timeout);
- }
- 
- DEFSYMVER(io_getevents_0_4, io_getevents, 0.4)
diff --git a/libaio.changes b/libaio.changes
index d5fdc49..7c2d68a 100644
--- a/libaio.changes
+++ b/libaio.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Sep 30 12:36:33 UTC 2011 - adrian@suse.de
+
+- drop debian arm hack to fix build on arm ;)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Mar 15 13:44:15 UTC 2011 - jengelh@medozas.de
 
diff --git a/libaio.spec b/libaio.spec
index 6cfc5e0..0d3ea64 100644
--- a/libaio.spec
+++ b/libaio.spec
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ Patch4:         00_arches_sh.patch
 Patch5:         01_link_libgcc.patch
 Patch6:         02_libdevdir.patch
 Patch7:         03_man_errors.patch
-Patch500:       ARM_io_getevents.diff
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
 %description
@@ -74,9 +73,6 @@ with, for the Linux-native asynchronous I/O facility ("async I/O", or
 %setup -q
 %patch2 -p1
 %patch -p1 -P 3 -P 4 -P 5 -P 6 -P 7
-%ifarch %arm
-%patch500 -p1
-%endif
 
 %build
 make %{?_smp_mflags} OPTFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS"