diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 342a9b854c73..8721f8b7d0e9 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 872e79add7561645b130fba63aa7ca12098a9361
+refs/heads/master: 999517f6742b4ca4692c041752afc4298fbbf0da
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/iio/kfifo_buf.c b/trunk/drivers/iio/kfifo_buf.c
index 5bc5c860e9ca..a923c78d5cb4 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/iio/kfifo_buf.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/iio/kfifo_buf.c
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ static inline int __iio_allocate_kfifo(struct iio_kfifo *buf,
 	if ((length == 0) || (bytes_per_datum == 0))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	__iio_update_buffer(&buf->buffer, bytes_per_datum, length);
 	return __kfifo_alloc((struct __kfifo *)&buf->kf, length,
 			     bytes_per_datum, GFP_KERNEL);
 }
diff --git a/trunk/include/linux/iio/buffer.h b/trunk/include/linux/iio/buffer.h
index f3eea18fdf46..2bac0eb8948d 100644
--- a/trunk/include/linux/iio/buffer.h
+++ b/trunk/include/linux/iio/buffer.h
@@ -103,19 +103,6 @@ int iio_update_buffers(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
  **/
 void iio_buffer_init(struct iio_buffer *buffer);
 
-/**
- * __iio_update_buffer() - update common elements of buffers
- * @buffer:		buffer that is the event source
- * @bytes_per_datum:	size of individual datum including timestamp
- * @length:		number of datums in buffer
- **/
-static inline void __iio_update_buffer(struct iio_buffer *buffer,
-				       int bytes_per_datum, int length)
-{
-	buffer->bytes_per_datum = bytes_per_datum;
-	buffer->length = length;
-}
-
 int iio_scan_mask_query(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
 			struct iio_buffer *buffer, int bit);