Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:41:32 +1100 | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.2: "-" or "_", thats the question |
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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:58:54 +0100 Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de> wrote:
> Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > > Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > >> > >> What would be the correct way to get the filename of a > >> loaded module? The basename would be sufficient. > >> > >> > > The symbole names used in source code, like function names tend to use > > "_", while the file names use "-" IMHO. > > > > Naturally the symbols in the code use '_', cause for C '-' > is not allowed within symbol names. > > I am interested in the module file names. 'cat /proc/modules' > should return the correct module names, but for some modules > (like uhci_hcd vs uhci-hcd.ko) '_' and '-' are messed up.
We canonicalize them at every point: you can use both.
Most users don't want to remember that it's ip_conntrack but uhci-hcd.
Hope that clarifies, Rusty. -- there are those who do and those who hang on and you don't see too many doers quoting their contemporaries. -- Larry McVoy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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