From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266246AbUBQQBg (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:01:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266256AbUBQQBg (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:01:36 -0500 Received: from node-d-1fcf.a2000.nl ([62.195.31.207]:40066 "EHLO laptop.fenrus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266246AbUBQQBY (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:01:24 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.2: "-" or "_", thats the question From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Harald Dunkel , Rusty Russell , Ryan Reich , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20040217160226.GB2178@mars.ravnborg.org> References: <1pw4i-hM-27@gated-at.bofh.it> <1pw4i-hM-29@gated-at.bofh.it> <1pw4i-hM-31@gated-at.bofh.it> <1pw4i-hM-25@gated-at.bofh.it> <1pLmG-4E7-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <1pRLz-21o-33@gated-at.bofh.it> <1pRVi-2am-27@gated-at.bofh.it> <1pWi8-65a-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <40315225.3010104@uchicago.edu> <4031B01B.80006@t-online.de> <20040217160226.GB2178@mars.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ZfkjybrSRKqEEQLCgYUB" Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-Id: <1077033661.6331.2.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:01:01 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-ZfkjybrSRKqEEQLCgYUB Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > When 2.7 opens I will try to find out if we can rename all victims. > I can tweak kbuild to warn for modules using '-', so we in the > end can get rid of this inconsistency. >=20 > Rusty - do you see any problems with this? well I'm not Rusty by a long shot, but I do see a problem with this, or at least a subtlety that needs taking into account: the pcmcia subsystem (I include cardmgr in that) has an internal declaration of the module name inside the module, and the filename of the module *HAS* to match that or things just won't work. ide-cs is the one at risk here; I've had to debug what turned out to be a mismatch during 2.4.2-era on this one and believe me, that's not funny.=20 --=-ZfkjybrSRKqEEQLCgYUB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAMjq7xULwo51rQBIRAm8qAJ0TQnwdEq9F6RavaRsVjX6vFkVr7ACeND9A 3ZYAF9E8mrUialsa3PdH1aQ= =azGN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ZfkjybrSRKqEEQLCgYUB--