Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:02:26 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.2: "-" or "_", thats the question |
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 07:09:31AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Ryan Reich wrote: > > > Anyway, if you really want to correct the inconsistencies you need only > > edit the sources for the modules in question; the names which appear in > > /proc/modules appear to be defined in, for example, > > drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c, where the .description section of the module > > is set. Or change the filenames, though I don't know how that will fly > with > > the make process. > > > > Of course I could patch the kernel sources to remove the > inconsistencies in the module names. But IMHO it is much > more important to convince the kernel developers that this > inconsistency is bad.
When 2.7 opens I will try to find out if we can rename all victims. I can tweak kbuild to warn for modules using '-', so we in the end can get rid of this inconsistency.
Rusty - do you see any problems with this?
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