diff --git a/package/i2c-tools/0001-py-smbus-Use-setuptools-instead-of-distutils.patch b/package/i2c-tools/0001-py-smbus-Use-setuptools-instead-of-distutils.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 63b2a7f82f..0000000000
--- a/package/i2c-tools/0001-py-smbus-Use-setuptools-instead-of-distutils.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-From cf3541b8a7ed50782edd05836020d31230fb86c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:08:53 +0100
-Subject: py-smbus: Use setuptools instead of distutils
-
-As per [1], distutils is deprecated in Python 3.10 and will be removed
-entirely in Python 3.12.
-
-As setuptools is essentially an enhanced version of distutils, it's
-trivial to port to that.
-
-[1] https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.10.html#distutils-deprecated
-
-Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
-Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
-
-Upstream: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.git/commit/?id=cf3541b8a7ed50782edd05836020d31230fb86c6
-
-Signed-off-by: Bernd Kuhls <bernd@kuhls.net>
----
- py-smbus/setup.py | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/py-smbus/setup.py b/py-smbus/setup.py
-index 28a4500..26db33a 100644
---- a/py-smbus/setup.py
-+++ b/py-smbus/setup.py
-@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
- #!/usr/bin/env python
- 
--from distutils.core import setup, Extension
-+from setuptools import setup, Extension
- 
- setup(	name="smbus",
- 	version="1.1",
--- 
-cgit 
-
diff --git a/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.hash b/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.hash
index 9bfdacb3f1..bdefefa2cc 100644
--- a/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.hash
+++ b/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.hash
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # From https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/utils/i2c-tools/sha256sums.asc
-sha256  1f899e43603184fac32f34d72498fc737952dbc9c97a8dd9467fadfdf4600cf9  i2c-tools-4.3.tar.xz
+sha256  8b15f0a880ab87280c40cfd7235cfff28134bf14d5646c07518b1ff6642a2473  i2c-tools-4.4.tar.xz
 
 # License files
 sha256  ab15fd526bd8dd18a9e77ebc139656bf4d33e97fc7238cd11bf60e2b9b8666c6  COPYING
 sha256  dc626520dcd53a22f727af3ee42c770e56c97a64fe3adb063799d8ab032fe551  COPYING.LGPL
-sha256  2293b6e9076984d02184ff620baac557143e16cfa47d88f0a791d05a1271742c  README
+sha256  adcc60d0fdf7b4e2ad22fe8a29d65c260ad3fc619b3105439b70914df5f6b5a8  README
diff --git a/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.mk b/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.mk
index 99388d9537..43d82b4bbb 100644
--- a/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.mk
+++ b/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-I2C_TOOLS_VERSION = 4.3
+I2C_TOOLS_VERSION = 4.4
 I2C_TOOLS_SOURCE = i2c-tools-$(I2C_TOOLS_VERSION).tar.xz
 I2C_TOOLS_SITE = https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/utils/i2c-tools
 I2C_TOOLS_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+, GPL-2.0 (py-smbus), LGPL-2.1+ (libi2c)