diff --git a/poky/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
index 9da9818..b346a60 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
 # the symlink.
 do_unpack[cleandirs] += " ${S} ${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR} ${B} ${STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR}"
 do_clean[cleandirs] += " ${S} ${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR} ${B} ${STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR}"
-base_do_unpack_append () {
+python do_symlink_kernsrc () {
     s = d.getVar("S")
     if s[-1] == '/':
         # drop trailing slash, so that os.symlink(kernsrc, s) doesn't use s as directory name and fail
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@
             shutil.move(s, kernsrc)
             os.symlink(kernsrc, s)
 }
+addtask symlink_kernsrc before do_configure after do_unpack
 
 inherit kernel-arch deploy