There are two useless lines in fs/char_dev.c.

In register_chrdev there is a loop to change all '/' into '!' in the
kernel object name.
This code is useless as the same substitution is in kobject_set_name_vargs in
lib/kobject.c:
228         /* ewww... some of these buggers have '/' in the name ... */
229         while ((s = strchr(kobj->name, '/')))
230                 s[0] = '!';

kobject_set_name_vargs is called by kobject_set_name.
kobject_set_name is called just above the useless loop.
Signed-off-by: Renzo Davoli <renzo@cs.unibo.it>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

fs/char_dev.c

@@ -278,8 +278,6 @@ int __register_chrdev(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
 	cdev->owner = fops->owner;
 	cdev->ops = fops;
 	kobject_set_name(&cdev->kobj, "%s", name);
-	for (s = strchr(kobject_name(&cdev->kobj),'/'); s; s = strchr(s, '/'))
-		*s = '!';
 		
 	err = cdev_add(cdev, MKDEV(cd->major, baseminor), count);
 	if (err)