From: Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@irc.pl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Module Names - Hyphen Converted to Underscore
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 20:54:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1104177282.5683.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41D064D0.6050509@transtec.demon.co.uk>
Dnia 27-12-2004, pon o godzinie 19:38 +0000, AJM napisał(a):
> I have compiled stock (kernel.org) 2.6.3 and 2.6.9 kernels which exhibit
> the following unusual behaviour on module loading: If the kernel module
> has a hyphen in its name, then this appears to be translated into an
> underscore by the kernel, such that, for example after "insmod 3w-xxxx",
> lsmod shows "3w_xxxx", "rmmod 3w-xxxx" fails but "rmmod 3w_xxxx" succeeds.
> Any suggestions as to why this is happening?
That convenience thing, look at man modprobe:
modprobe intelligently adds or removes a module from the Linux kernel:
note that for convenience,there is no difference between _ and
- in module names.
--
Tomasz Torcz
zdzichu@irc.-spam.nie-.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-27 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-27 19:38 Module Names - Hyphen Converted to Underscore AJM
2004-12-27 19:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-27 19:54 ` Tomasz Torcz [this message]
2004-12-27 20:09 ` Alan Curry
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