diff --git a/libatasmart-initialize.patch b/libatasmart-initialize.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9177567
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libatasmart-initialize.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- 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 a6391ab..826f0ca 100644
--- a/libatasmart.changes
+++ b/libatasmart.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+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 06babd6..c1aec21 100644
--- a/libatasmart.spec
+++ b/libatasmart.spec
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ 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
@@ -65,6 +66,7 @@ health monitoring.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0
 
 %build
 %configure --disable-static