diff --git a/src/liblwevent/300_fdevent.c b/src/liblwevent/300_fdevent.c
index fd73e3a..5d04bf4 100644
--- a/src/liblwevent/300_fdevent.c
+++ b/src/liblwevent/300_fdevent.c
@@ -8,18 +8,16 @@
 
 
 /* _lwevent_activate()
- *  Activates the event `ev'. Called with EPOLL_CTL_ADD in `op' when creating a new event in 
- *  lwevent_new() or when reactivating an event in lwevent_reactivate(). Called with EPOLL_CTL_MOD
- *  in lwevent_set_events(). Calls epoll_ctl(), returning -1 on permanent failure.
+ *  Activates the event `ev'. Calls epoll_ctl(), returning -1 on permanent failure.
  */
-static int _lwevent_activate(int op, struct lwevent* ev)
+static int _lwevent_activate(struct lwevent* ev)
 {
     struct epoll_event ee;
 
     ee.events = ev->events;
     ee.data.ptr = ev;
 
-    return TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY( epoll_ctl(lwevent_epoll_fd, op, ev->fd, &ee) );
+    return TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY( epoll_ctl(lwevent_epoll_fd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, ev->fd, &ee) );
 }
 
 
@@ -39,7 +37,7 @@ struct lwevent* lwevent_new(int fd, int events, lwevent_callback callback)
     ev->events = events;
     ev->callback = callback;
 
-    if(_lwevent_activate(EPOLL_CTL_ADD, ev)) {
+    if(_lwevent_activate(ev)) {
         free(ev);
         return 0;
     }
@@ -80,7 +78,7 @@ int lwevent_deactivate(struct lwevent* ev)
  */
 int lwevent_reactivate(struct lwevent* ev)
 {
-    return _lwevent_activate(EPOLL_CTL_ADD, ev);
+    return _lwevent_activate(ev);
 }