From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263632AbUBRIrt (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 03:47:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263898AbUBRIrt (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 03:47:49 -0500 Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.80]:48620 "EHLO mailout01.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263632AbUBRIrr (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 03:47:47 -0500 Message-ID: <40332666.60703@t-online.de> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:46:30 +0100 From: Harald Dunkel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040214 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wakko Warner , rusty@rustcorp.com.au CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.2: "-" or "_", thats the question References: <402A887D.7030408@t-online.de> <402EDBA8.4070102@lovecn.org> <402F42DE.5090308@t-online.de> <20040217184132.541a5a76.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20040217202839.A16590@animx.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20040217202839.A16590@animx.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Seen: false X-ID: Tzo-wqZcre7uZ-QWtuaCGuDsh27WRjmdPKaNM4llPLAevt7eHiwW0l Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Wakko Warner wrote: > Rusty Russell wrote: > >>Most users don't want to remember that it's ip_conntrack but uhci-hcd. > > > I'd like to chime in about this. > > I'd prefer it be - all the way around (I know I can use either). Since I > can ask for module uhci_hcd or uhci-hcd and get uhci-hcd.ko loaded, I've > been using -. It's a bit easier to type since I don't have to hit shift for > each _ > It is really not important here whether anybody prefers '_' or '-'. IMHO everybody should be free to use both, even within one symbol filename. What I do not like is that /proc/modules lies about the names of the loaded modules. I can understand that you are not affected by this problem, because all you see is module-init-tools, but others _are_ affected. Regards Harri