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From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] tools: Add support for handling
 built-in kernel modules
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:22:19 +0200
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On 01/28/2016 01:17 PM, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>
>
> W dniu 26.01.2016 o 16:23, Thomas Monjalon pisze:
>> 2016-01-20 10:48, krytarowski@caviumnetworks.com:
>>> --- a/tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py
>>> +++ b/tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py
>>> -    for line in loaded_mods:
>>> +    try:
>>> +        # Get list of syfs modules, some of them might be builtin
>>> and merge with mods
>> Please could you explain this comment?
>> Is it remaining from previous versions of the patch?
>
> Yes. It might be changed to:
> # Get list of sysfs modules (both built-in and dynamically loaded)
>
>> [...]
>>> +        # special case for vfio_pci (module is named vfio-pci,
>>> +        # but its .ko is named vfio_pci)
>> Isn't it common to have dash replaced by underscore for kernel modules?
>>
>
> I retained the logic for special case of vfio-pci. At the moment
> (according to my knowledge) there are no other DPDK modules with this
> name replacement.
>
> I checked few example Linux modules and if a module is named with dash,
> it's being replaced to underscore. The modprobe(8) tool can accept both
> names as interchangeable (with dash and underscore).
>
> Would you like to make it a general rule and replace all dashes with
> underscores?

It would be nice to behave the same as modprobe wrt dash and underscore, 
yes.

	- Panu -

> Thank you