diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-bfin.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-bfin.c
index a118eb0f1e67..b11485b9f21c 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-bfin.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-bfin.c
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ static int __devinit bfin_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	}
 
 	/* Grab the IRQ and init the hardware */
-	ret = request_irq(IRQ_RTC, bfin_rtc_interrupt, IRQF_SHARED, pdev->name, dev);
+	ret = request_irq(IRQ_RTC, bfin_rtc_interrupt, 0, pdev->name, dev);
 	if (unlikely(ret))
 		goto err_reg;
 	/* sometimes the bootloader touched things, but the write complete was not