diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 4f11ce0b0d3f..4d51b8423eb1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6367,7 +6367,7 @@ let
 
   # The current default kernel / kernel modules.
   linux = linuxPackages.kernel;
-  linuxPackages = linuxPackages_3_2;
+  linuxPackages = linuxPackages_3_4; # should be latest longterm, see #501
 
   # A function to build a manually-configured kernel
   linuxManualConfig = import ../os-specific/linux/kernel/manual-config.nix {