From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ryan Reich <ryanr@uchicago.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.2: "-" or "_", thats the question
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:02:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040217160226.GB2178@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4031B01B.80006@t-online.de>
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?
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-17 15:46 UTC|newest]
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2004-02-16 23:28 ` Ryan Reich
2004-02-17 6:09 ` Harald Dunkel
2004-02-17 16:02 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2004-02-17 16:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-17 19:49 ` Harald Dunkel
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2004-02-15 15:02 ` Ryan Reich
2004-02-16 7:21 ` Harald Dunkel
2004-02-16 8:48 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-02-16 11:11 ` Harald Dunkel
2004-02-16 14:13 ` Ryan Reich
2004-02-16 14:22 ` Ryan Reich
2004-02-16 19:01 ` Harald Dunkel
2004-02-18 21:58 ` Tony Breeds
2004-02-11 19:54 Harald Dunkel
2004-02-15 2:38 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2004-02-15 9:58 ` Harald Dunkel
2004-02-17 7:41 ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-18 1:28 ` Wakko Warner
2004-02-18 8:46 ` Harald Dunkel
2004-02-18 17:25 ` Wakko Warner
2004-02-19 1:52 ` Randy.Dunlap
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