Re: sdhci-pci or sdhci_pci

[Richard Weinberger]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Muni Sekhar <munisekharrms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  [ Please keep me in CC as I'm not subscribed to the list]
>
> Hello,
>
> I loaded sdhci-pci.ko, but lsmod shows it as sdhci_pci.
> Why is that lsmod shows wrong module name( '-' changed to '_')?
>
>
> # lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> sdhci_pci              23301  0
> sdhci                  43685  1 sdhci_pci

The problem is that module names must contain a dash. This is why kbuild
is renaming them.
IIRC because the modalias mechanism is using them.
CC'ing Rusty. Maybe he can give more details. :)

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Thanks,
//richard
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