diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index e6e4d3335e14..f8e4269ff3a2 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: bb521c5de070b86a1e049e2dbf62328f717ff1e8
+refs/heads/master: dd5d81f326da8d151939b833993b799c0d0d1d6e
diff --git a/trunk/fs/char_dev.c b/trunk/fs/char_dev.c
index 3cbc57f932d2..d6db933df2b2 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -264,7 +264,6 @@ int __register_chrdev(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
 {
 	struct char_device_struct *cd;
 	struct cdev *cdev;
-	char *s;
 	int err = -ENOMEM;
 
 	cd = __register_chrdev_region(major, baseminor, count, name);
@@ -278,8 +277,6 @@ 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)