diff --git a/udev/PKGBUILD b/udev/PKGBUILD
index f97be8f54..280be0340 100644
--- a/udev/PKGBUILD
+++ b/udev/PKGBUILD
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 pkgname=udev
 pkgver=181
-pkgrel=5
+pkgrel=6
 pkgdesc="The userspace dev tools (udev)"
 depends=('util-linux' 'libusb-compat' 'glib2' 'kmod' 'pciutils' 'usbutils' 'pciutils')
 install=udev.install
@@ -46,13 +46,6 @@ package() {
   cd $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver
   make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install
 
-  # /dev/loop0 is created for convenience, to autoload the module if necessary
-  # this is no longer needed when util-linux-2.21 is released as /dev/loop-control
-  # will be used instead. Support for this will go away in a future version of udev
-  install -d -m755 ${pkgdir}/lib/udev/devices/
-  mknod ${pkgdir}/lib/udev/devices/loop0 b 7 0
-  chgrp disk ${pkgdir}/lib/udev/devices/loop0
-
   # udevd moved, symlink to make life easy for restarting udevd manually
   ln -s /lib/udev/udevd ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/udevd
 
diff --git a/udev/udev.install b/udev/udev.install
index bc686ef67..d479df340 100644
--- a/udev/udev.install
+++ b/udev/udev.install
@@ -52,4 +52,6 @@ post_upgrade() {
   echo " * udev-compat has been removed, and should be uninstalled."
   echo " * Framebuffers are no longer blacklisted by default."
   echo " * binaries moved from /sbin to /usr/bin"
+  echo " * if your kernel does not provide /dev/loop-control, you need to manually"
+  echo "   load the 'loop' module before using losetup"
 }