The patch titled remove null chars from dvb names has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is remove-null-chars-from-dvb-names.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: remove null chars from dvb names From: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> DVB null terminates its device names, which seems odd, and should be unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- diff -puN drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c~remove-null-chars-from-dvb-names drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c --- a/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c~remove-null-chars-from-dvb-names +++ a/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c @@ -2823,7 +2823,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, pci_tbl); static struct saa7146_extension av7110_extension = { - .name = "dvb\0", + .name = "dvb", .flags = SAA7146_I2C_SHORT_DELAY, .module = THIS_MODULE, diff -puN drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget-ci.c~remove-null-chars-from-dvb-names drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget-ci.c --- a/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget-ci.c~remove-null-chars-from-dvb-names +++ a/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget-ci.c @@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@ static struct pci_device_id pci_tbl[] = MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, pci_tbl); static struct saa7146_extension budget_extension = { - .name = "budget_ci dvb\0", + .name = "budget_ci dvb", .flags = SAA7146_I2C_SHORT_DELAY, .module = THIS_MODULE, diff -puN drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget-patch.c~remove-null-chars-from-dvb-names drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget-patch.c --- a/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget-patch.c~remove-null-chars-from-dvb-names +++ a/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget-patch.c @@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ static void __exit budget_patch_exit(voi } static struct saa7146_extension budget_extension = { - .name = "budget_patch dvb\0", + .name = "budget_patch dvb", .flags = 0, .module = THIS_MODULE, diff -puN drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget.c~remove-null-chars-from-dvb-names drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget.c --- a/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget.c~remove-null-chars-from-dvb-names +++ a/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget.c @@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ static struct pci_device_id pci_tbl[] = MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, pci_tbl); static struct saa7146_extension budget_extension = { - .name = "budget dvb\0", + .name = "budget dvb", .flags = SAA7146_I2C_SHORT_DELAY, .module = THIS_MODULE, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from davej@xxxxxxxxxx are git-agpgart.patch git-cpufreq.patch remove-null-chars-from-dvb-names.patch remove-silly-messages-from-input-layer.patch git-kbuild.patch via-sata-oops-on-init.patch tickle-nmi-watchdog-on-serial-output.patch debug-variants-of-linked-list-macros.patch tty_ioc-keep-davej-sane.patch sched-dont-print-migration-cost-when-only-1-cpu.patch fbcon-use-persistent-allocation-for-cursor-blinking.patch post-halloween-doc.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html