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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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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?

	Sam