diff --git a/target/linux/kirkwood/Makefile b/target/linux/kirkwood/Makefile
index adc7a496e1..c5ed939d76 100644
--- a/target/linux/kirkwood/Makefile
+++ b/target/linux/kirkwood/Makefile
@@ -11,10 +11,8 @@ BOARD:=kirkwood
 BOARDNAME:=Marvell Kirkwood
 FEATURES:=usb nand squashfs ramdisk
 CPU_TYPE:=xscale
-MAINTAINER:=Luka Perkov <luka@openwrt.org>
 
-KERNEL_PATCHVER:=4.14
-KERNEL_TESTING_PATCHVER := 4.19
+KERNEL_PATCHVER:=5.4
 
 include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/target.mk