Re: Module Names - Hyphen Converted to Underscore

[Tomasz Torcz]

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. 


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Tomasz Torcz
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