--- linux-2.4.7-ac3/drivers/char/serial.c_ORIG	Wed Aug  1 23:02:09 2001
+++ linux-2.4.7-ac3/drivers/char/serial.c	Wed Aug  1 23:11:01 2001
@@ -4852,10 +4852,13 @@
 
 MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, serial_pci_tbl);
 
+/* serial_pci_driver_name[] gets truncated to ""  if the pci probe fails */
+static char serial_pci_driver_name[] = "serial";
+
 static struct pci_driver serial_pci_driver = {
-       name:           "serial",
+       name:           serial_pci_driver_name,
        probe:          serial_init_one,
-       remove:	       serial_remove_one,
+       remove:         serial_remove_one,
        id_table:       serial_pci_tbl,
 };