diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
index 4ee42349f8..474e914c13 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
@@ -1568,7 +1568,7 @@ from the module-init-tools project.")
   ;; The post-systemd fork, maintained by Gentoo.
   (package
     (name "eudev")
-    (version "2.1.1")
+    (version "3.1.5")
     (source (origin
               (method url-fetch)
               (uri (string-append
@@ -1576,55 +1576,15 @@ from the module-init-tools project.")
                     version ".tar.gz"))
               (sha256
                (base32
-                "0shf5vqiz9fdxl95aa1a8vh0xjxwim3psc39wr2xr8lnahf11vva"))
-              (patches (list (search-patch "eudev-rules-directory.patch")))
-              (modules '((guix build utils)))
-              (snippet
-               ;; 'configure' checks uses <linux/btrfs.h> as an indication of
-               ;; whether Linux headers are available, but it doesn't actually
-               ;; use it, and our 'linux-libre-headers' package doesn't
-               ;; provide it.  So just remove that.
-               '(substitute* "configure"
-                  (("linux/btrfs\\.h")
-                   "")))))
+                "0akg9gcc3c2p56xbhlvbybqavcprly5q0bvk655zwl6d62j8an7p"))
+              (patches (list (search-patch "eudev-rules-directory.patch")))))
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
     (native-inputs
      `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
-       ("gperf" ,gperf)
-       ("glib" ,glib "bin")                       ; glib-genmarshal, etc.
-       ("perl" ,perl)                             ; for the tests
-       ("python" ,python-2)))                     ; ditto
+       ("perl" ,perl)
+       ("gperf" ,gperf)))
     (inputs
-     `(("kmod" ,kmod)
-       ("pciutils" ,pciutils)
-       ("usbutils" ,usbutils)
-       ("util-linux" ,util-linux)
-       ("glib" ,glib)
-       ("gobject-introspection" ,gobject-introspection)))
-    (arguments
-     `(#:configure-flags (list "--enable-libkmod"
-
-                               (string-append
-                                "--with-pci-ids-path="
-                                (assoc-ref %build-inputs "pciutils")
-                                "/share/pci.ids.gz")
-
-                               "--with-firmware-path=/no/firmware"
-
-                               ;; Work around undefined reference to
-                               ;; 'mq_getattr' in sc-daemon.c.
-                               "LDFLAGS=-lrt")
-       #:phases
-       (alist-cons-before
-        'build 'pre-build
-        ;; The program 'g-ir-scanner' (part of the package
-        ;; 'gobject-introspection'), to generate .gir files, makes some
-        ;; library pre-processing.  During that phase it looks for the C
-        ;; compiler as either 'cc' or as defined by the environment variable
-        ;; 'CC' (with code in 'giscanner/dumper.py').
-        (lambda* _
-          (setenv "CC" "gcc"))
-        %standard-phases)))
+     `(("kmod" ,kmod)))
     (home-page "http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eudev/")
     (synopsis "Userspace device management")
     (description "Udev is a daemon which dynamically creates and removes
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/eudev-rules-directory.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/eudev-rules-directory.patch
index 9173e22f76..54fc01c6d5 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/patches/eudev-rules-directory.patch
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/eudev-rules-directory.patch
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ The old udev 182 supported $UDEV_CONFIG_FILE, which in turn allowed
 the search path to be customized, but eudev no longer has this, hence
 this hack.
 
---- eudev-1.9/src/udev/udev-rules.c	2014-09-13 10:21:59.615980259 +0200
-+++ eudev-1.9/src/udev/udev-rules.c	2014-09-13 10:24:13.839976335 +0200
-@@ -46,15 +46,11 @@
+--- eudev-3.1.5/src/udev/udev-rules.c	2015-10-13 06:22:14.000000000 +0800
++++ eudev-3.1.5/src/udev/udev-rules.c	2015-10-16 20:45:38.491934336 +0800
+@@ -47,15 +47,11 @@
          };
  };
  
@@ -14,23 +14,23 @@ this hack.
 +static const char* rules_dirs[] = {
          UDEV_CONF_DIR "/rules.d",
          UDEV_RULES_DIR,
--        "/run/udev/rules.d",
+-        UDEV_ROOT_RUN "/udev/rules.d",
          UDEV_LIBEXEC_DIR "/rules.d",
 -#ifdef HAVE_SPLIT_USR
 -        "/lib/udev/rules.d",
 -        "/usr/lib/udev/rules.d",
 -#endif
-+	NULL,			  /* placeholder for $EUDEV_RULES_DIRECTORY */
++        NULL,			/* placeholder for $EUDEV_RULES_DIRECTORY */
          NULL};
  
  struct udev_rules {
-@@ -1637,6 +1633,9 @@
+@@ -1704,6 +1700,9 @@
  
          udev_rules_check_timestamp(rules);
  
-+	/* Allow the user to specify an additional rules directory.  */
-+	rules_dirs[3] = getenv("EUDEV_RULES_DIRECTORY");
++        /* Allow the user to specify an additional rules directory.  */
++        rules_dirs[3] = getenv("EUDEV_RULES_DIRECTORY");
 +
          r = conf_files_list_strv(&files, ".rules", NULL, rules_dirs);
          if (r < 0) {
-                 log_error("failed to enumerate rules files: %s", strerror(-r));
+                 log_error_errno(r, "failed to enumerate rules files: %m");