diff --git a/lustre/kernel_patches/patches/inode-max-readahead-chaos-2.4.18.patch b/lustre/kernel_patches/patches/inode-max-readahead-chaos-2.4.18.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6993eb16087aabaeef7ac5d035b9a781301bd0da..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/lustre/kernel_patches/patches/inode-max-readahead-chaos-2.4.18.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- linux-2.4.24-l32/include/linux/fs.h.inode_ramax	2004-03-14 13:15:49.000000000 -0800
-+++ linux-2.4.24-l32/include/linux/fs.h	2004-03-15 11:56:56.000000000 -0800
-@@ -410,6 +410,8 @@
- #define KERNEL_HAS_DIRECT_FILEIO /* Unfortunate kludge due to lack of foresight */
- 	int (*direct_fileIO)(int, struct file *, struct kiobuf *, unsigned long, int);
- 	void (*removepage)(struct page *); /* called when page gets removed from the inode */
-+#define KERNEL_HAS_AS_MAX_READAHEAD
-+	int (*max_readahead)(struct inode *);
- };
- 
- struct address_space {
diff --git a/lustre/kernel_patches/series/chaos-2.4.18 b/lustre/kernel_patches/series/chaos-2.4.18
index 050e0068d5bc097d80ac6ed67dfe35904d955b75..c69f42f82b3a881a746664aec7cf2681c3208da8 100644
--- a/lustre/kernel_patches/series/chaos-2.4.18
+++ b/lustre/kernel_patches/series/chaos-2.4.18
@@ -36,5 +36,5 @@ ext3-xattr-ptr-arith-fix.patch
 kernel_text_address-2.4.18-chaos.patch
 procfs-ndynamic-2.4.patch 
 ext3-truncate-buffer-head.patch
-inode-max-readahead-chaos-2.4.18.patch
+inode-max-readahead-2.4.24.patch
 dcache_refcount_debug.patch