diff --git a/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.hash b/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.hash
deleted file mode 100644
index c12ffe845b..0000000000
--- a/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.hash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# locally computed hash
-sha256	db5e69f2e2a6e3aa2ecdfe6a5f490b149c504468770f58921c8c5b8a7860a441  i2c-tools-3.1.2.tar.bz2
diff --git a/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.mk b/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.mk
index 187bd09754..9625acf8f0 100644
--- a/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.mk
+++ b/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-I2C_TOOLS_VERSION = 3.1.2
-I2C_TOOLS_SOURCE = i2c-tools-$(I2C_TOOLS_VERSION).tar.bz2
-I2C_TOOLS_SITE = http://dl.lm-sensors.org/i2c-tools/releases
+I2C_TOOLS_VERSION = v3.1.2
+I2C_TOOLS_SITE = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.git
 I2C_TOOLS_LICENSE = GPLv2+, GPLv2 (py-smbus)
 I2C_TOOLS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING