EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_create_vargs);
 
 /**
- * device_create_drvdata - creates a device and registers it with sysfs
+ * device_create - creates a device and registers it with sysfs
  * @class: pointer to the struct class that this device should be registered to
  * @parent: pointer to the parent struct device of this new device, if any
  * @devt: the dev_t for the char device to be added
  * Note: the struct class passed to this function must have previously
  * been created with a call to class_create().
  */
-struct device *device_create_drvdata(struct class *class,
-                                    struct device *parent,
-                                    dev_t devt,
-                                    void *drvdata,
-                                    const char *fmt, ...)
+struct device *device_create(struct class *class, struct device *parent,
+                            dev_t devt, void *drvdata, const char *fmt, ...)
 {
        va_list vargs;
        struct device *dev;
        va_end(vargs);
        return dev;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_create_drvdata);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_create);
 
 static int __match_devt(struct device *dev, void *data)
 {
 
                                          void *drvdata,
                                          const char *fmt,
                                          va_list vargs);
-extern struct device *device_create_drvdata(struct class *cls,
-                                           struct device *parent,
-                                           dev_t devt,
-                                           void *drvdata,
-                                           const char *fmt, ...)
+extern struct device *device_create(struct class *cls, struct device *parent,
+                                   dev_t devt, void *drvdata,
+                                   const char *fmt, ...)
                                    __attribute__((format(printf, 5, 6)));
+#define device_create_drvdata  device_create
 extern void device_destroy(struct class *cls, dev_t devt);
 
 /*