Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Module Names - Hyphen Converted to Underscore | From | Tomasz Torcz <> | Date | Mon, 27 Dec 2004 20:54:42 +0100 |
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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
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