The patch number 8444 was added via Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
to http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb master development tree.

Kernel patches in this development tree may be modified to be backward
compatible with older kernels. Compatibility modifications will be
removed before inclusion into the mainstream Kernel

If anyone has any objections, please let us know by sending a message to:
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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
backport commit e282959ef3ebae0d72ac0b24242c376fa34da585


Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
     Date:   Wed May 21 12:52:33 2008 -0700

    device create: dvb: convert device_create to device_create_drvdata

    device_create() is race-prone, so use the race-free
    device_create_drvdata() instead as device_create() is going away.

kernel-sync:

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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 linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff -r 08d83bd597d4 -r 439cdc0fc36a linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
--- a/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c Thu Jul 24 12:35:53 2008 -0300
+++ b/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c Thu Jul 24 12:46:11 2008 -0300
@@ -242,9 +242,15 @@ int dvb_register_device(struct dvb_adapt
 
        mutex_unlock(&dvbdev_register_lock);
 
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 26)
+       clsdev = device_create_drvdata(dvb_class, adap->device,
+                              MKDEV(DVB_MAJOR, nums2minor(adap->num, type, 
id)),
+                              NULL, "dvb%d.%s%d", adap->num, dnames[type], id);
+#else
        clsdev = device_create(dvb_class, adap->device,
                               MKDEV(DVB_MAJOR, nums2minor(adap->num, type, 
id)),
                               "dvb%d.%s%d", adap->num, dnames[type], id);
+#endif
        if (IS_ERR(clsdev)) {
                printk(KERN_ERR "%s: failed to create device dvb%d.%s%d 
(%ld)\n",
                       __func__, adap->num, dnames[type], id, PTR_ERR(clsdev));


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Patch is available at: 
http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/rev/439cdc0fc36a0852f66a34beb2d8d9676db9b896

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