diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 3afb3939..260cb592 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ Martin Hammerschmid <martin@hammerschmid.com>
  for implementing pege up/down with the "Left" and "Right" keys
  for detecting a deadlock when switching channels via Schedule/Now|Next/Switch
  for adding a missing #include to ringbuffer.c
+ for adding a missing 'public' keyword in device.h
 
 Bastian Guse <bastian@nocopy.de>
  for writing the FORMATS entry for timers.conf
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 9d7f3683..2d41bd02 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -1515,3 +1515,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 
   This is the diff for the 'setup' example that comes with VDR, so your line
   numbers may be different.
+- Added a missing 'public' keyword in device.h (thanks to Martin Hammerschmid).
diff --git a/device.h b/device.h
index bc8d2f28..29f88a63 100644
--- a/device.h
+++ b/device.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: device.h 1.18 2002/09/15 11:05:41 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: device.h 1.19 2002/09/21 09:14:08 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __DEVICE_H
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class cPlayer;
 class cReceiver;
 class cSpuDecoder;
 
-class cDevice : cThread {
+class cDevice : public cThread {
 private:
   static int numDevices;
   static int useDevice;