diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 64d6ebc8..3218b612 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ SVN HEAD
   Man page i2cdetect.8: Scanning range can be restricted
   Module bmcsensors: Fix debugging messages
   Module i2c-ali1563: Improve the status messages (2.6 backport)
+                      Fix device initialization (2.6 backport)
   Module i2c-amd8111: Cleanups (2.6 backport)
                       Fix initialization race (2.6 backport)
   Module i2c-nforce2: Drop unused reference to pci_dev (2.6 backport)
diff --git a/kernel/busses/i2c-ali1563.c b/kernel/busses/i2c-ali1563.c
index 69dc50fa..87cc2d2c 100644
--- a/kernel/busses/i2c-ali1563.c
+++ b/kernel/busses/i2c-ali1563.c
@@ -326,35 +326,12 @@ static u32 ali1563_func(struct i2c_adapter * a)
 }
 
 
-static void ali1563_enable(struct pci_dev * dev)
-{
-	u16 ctrl;
-
-	pci_read_config_word(dev,ALI1563_SMBBA,&ctrl);
-	ctrl |= 0x7;
-	pci_write_config_word(dev,ALI1563_SMBBA,ctrl);
-}
-
 static int __devinit ali1563_setup(struct pci_dev * dev)
 {
 	u16 ctrl;
 
 	pci_read_config_word(dev,ALI1563_SMBBA,&ctrl);
 
-	/* Check if device is even enabled first */
-	if (!(ctrl & ALI1563_SMB_IOEN)) {
-		printk(KERN_WARNING "ali1563: I/O space not enabled, trying manually\n");
-		ali1563_enable(dev);
-	}
-	if (!(ctrl & ALI1563_SMB_IOEN)) {
-		printk(KERN_WARNING "ali1563: I/O space still not enabled, giving up\n");
-		goto Err;
-	}
-	if (!(ctrl & ALI1563_SMB_HOSTEN)) {
-		printk(KERN_WARNING "ali1563: Host Controller not enabled\n");
-		goto Err;
-	}
-
 	/* SMB I/O Base in high 12 bits and must be aligned with the
 	 * size of the I/O space. */
 	ali1563_smba = ctrl & ~(ALI1563_SMB_IOSIZE - 1);
@@ -362,6 +339,24 @@ static int __devinit ali1563_setup(struct pci_dev * dev)
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "ali1563: ali1563_smba Uninitialized\n");
 		goto Err;
 	}
+
+	/* Check if device is enabled */
+	if (!(ctrl & ALI1563_SMB_HOSTEN)) {
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "ali1563: Host Controller not enabled\n");
+		goto Err;
+	}
+	if (!(ctrl & ALI1563_SMB_IOEN)) {
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "I/O space not enabled, trying manually\n");
+		pci_write_config_word(dev, ALI1563_SMBBA,
+				      ctrl | ALI1563_SMB_IOEN);
+		pci_read_config_word(dev, ALI1563_SMBBA, &ctrl);
+		if (!(ctrl & ALI1563_SMB_IOEN)) {
+			printk(KERN_WARNING "I/O space still not enabled, "
+			       "giving up\n");
+			goto Err;
+		}
+	}
+
 	if (!request_region(ali1563_smba, ALI1563_SMB_IOSIZE,
 			    ali1563_pci_driver.name)) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "ali1563: Could not allocate I/O space "