diff --git a/legacy/eet/src/lib/eet_lib.c b/legacy/eet/src/lib/eet_lib.c
index 94df47dcb5..b97c6fb98d 100644
--- a/legacy/eet/src/lib/eet_lib.c
+++ b/legacy/eet/src/lib/eet_lib.c
@@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ eet_write(Eet_File *ef, char *name, void *data, int size, int compress)
      memcpy(data2, data, size);
 
    /* Does this node already exist? */
-   if (ef->mode = EET_FILE_MODE_RW)
+   if (ef->mode == EET_FILE_MODE_RW)
      {
 	int i;
 	for (i = 0; i < node_size; i++)