diff --git a/srcpkgs/thermald/patches/musl.patch b/srcpkgs/thermald/patches/musl.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4f33f846eb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/thermald/patches/musl.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff --git Makefile.am Makefile.am
+index 68c89d0..403407d 100644
+--- Makefile.am
++++ Makefile.am
+@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ AM_CXXFLAGS = ${DBUS_CFLAGS}\
+ 		-Wmissing-field-initializers\
+ 		-Wtype-limits\
+ 		-Wuninitialized\
+-		-Werror
++		-Werror\
++		-Wno-error=cpp
+ 
+ EXTRA_DIST=Makefile.glib \
+ 	thermald.pc.in
diff --git a/srcpkgs/thermald/template b/srcpkgs/thermald/template
index 664bca87077..53b9c64ac38 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/thermald/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/thermald/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'thermald'
 pkgname=thermald
-version=1.5.1
+version=1.7.1
 revision=1
 _pkgname=thermal_daemon
 wrksrc="${_pkgname}-${version}"
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ maintainer="Andrea Brancaleoni <abc@pompel.me>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="https://github.com/01org/${_pkgname}"
 distfiles="${homepage}/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=fa4be6163bdc85f0fee54b8fb90982b8910349db5d815667ca6d6739b47e5e3d
+checksum=c4465d9312304b879908289e2e9da7417e88151c1529dff42acb8e3fb6aa4f47
 conf_files="
  /etc/thermald/thermal-conf.xml
  /etc/thermald/thermal-cpu-cdev-order.xml"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/thermald/update b/srcpkgs/thermald/update
deleted file mode 100644
index 2b4a7130cb0..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/thermald/update
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-site="https://api.github.com/repos/01org/thermal_daemon/tags"
-pattern='"name":\s*"\K[^\d]*([\d\.]+)(?=")'