diff --git a/libatasmart-initialize.patch b/libatasmart-initialize.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9177567..0000000
--- a/libatasmart-initialize.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- strpool.c
-+++ strpool.c
-@@ -435,6 +435,7 @@
-                                                         rl = 0;
- 
-                                                         i->next = NULL;
-+                                                        i->suffix_of = NULL;
- 
-                                                         if (last)
-                                                                 last->next = i;
diff --git a/libatasmart.changes b/libatasmart.changes
index 826f0ca..a6391ab 100644
--- a/libatasmart.changes
+++ b/libatasmart.changes
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-Tue Mar 16 10:35:41 CET 2010 - ro@suse.de
-
-- fix build by initializing member suffix_of in strpool.c 
-
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Nov 13 12:54:33 CET 2009 - vuntz@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/libatasmart.spec b/libatasmart.spec
index c1aec21..06babd6 100644
--- a/libatasmart.spec
+++ b/libatasmart.spec
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ Summary:        ATA S.M.A.R.T. Disk Health Monitoring Library
 Url:            http://git.0pointer.de/?p=libatasmart.git;a=summary
 Group:          System/Libraries
 Source:         %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
-Patch0:         libatasmart-initialize.patch
 BuildRequires:  libudev-devel
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
@@ -66,7 +65,6 @@ health monitoring.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
-%patch0
 
 %build
 %configure --disable-static