I've tested this and can confirm it works. dvb_class will be set too late without the change to subsys_initcall. On Tue, 1 May 2007, Simon Arlott wrote: > dvb-core is not started early enough when device drivers that use dvb are > compiled in so device_register_device fails (silently) since dvb_class is ^dvb_register_device > NULL, this runs dvb_init using subsys_initcall instead of module_init. > > dvb_register_device will now check the return value of class_device_create. > All the printks had missing level prefixes so I've fixed these too. Probably better to make this a separate patch, since it's not related. > - printk ("%s: could get find free device id...\n", __FUNCTION__); > + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: could get find free device id...\n", __FUNCTION__); "couldn't find free device id" If it's ok with you, I'll import your patch as two seperate patches with the spelling errors fixed? > + dprintk(KERN_DEBUG "DVB: register adapter%d/%s%d @ minor: %i (0x%02x)\n", > adap->num, dnames[type], id, nums2minor(adap->num, type, id), > nums2minor(adap->num, type, id)); The dvb-core dvbdev_debug parameter does nothing but turn on this one single dprintk. I'm tempted to just delete it. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb