diff --git a/srpt/Makefile b/srpt/Makefile
index 4f585ce34..31d73f2db 100644
--- a/srpt/Makefile
+++ b/srpt/Makefile
@@ -115,4 +115,7 @@ extraclean: clean
 	-$(MAKE) clean
 	$(call set_var,build_mode,BUILDMODE,PERF)
 
+release-archive:
+	@version="$$(sed -n 's/^#define DRV_VERSION[ 	]*\"\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/p' src/ib_srpt.c)"; patch -sp0 <release-archive.patch && tar --owner=root --group=root --transform="s|^|srpt-$$version/|" -cjf srpt-$$version.tar.bz2 $$(svn status -v -q | cut -c11- | while read rev1 rev2 user path; do [ -d "$$path" ] || echo "$$path"; done) && patch -Rsp0 <release-archive.patch && ls -l srpt-$$version.tar.bz2
+
 .PHONY: all install clean extraclean 2debug 2release 2perf
diff --git a/srpt/release-archive.patch b/srpt/release-archive.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1f9fafa77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srpt/release-archive.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Index: src/Makefile
+===================================================================
+--- src/Makefile	(revision 4033)
++++ src/Makefile	(working copy)
+@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
+-SCST_INC_DIR := $(SUBDIRS)/../../scst/include/
+-EXTRA_CFLAGS += -I$(SCST_INC_DIR)
+-
+ -include $(SUBDIRS)/../build_mode
+ 
+ SRPTFLAGS = -DCONFIG_SCST_TRACING -DCONFIG_SCST_DEBUG \