diff --git a/drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c b/drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c
index 231f5dbb18b4..64c638ecdd4b 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c
@@ -582,6 +582,7 @@ module_exit(videodev_exit)
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Alan Cox, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Device registrar for Video4Linux drivers v2");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV_MAJOR(VIDEO_MAJOR);
 
 
 /*