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From: "Alan Curry" <pacman-kernel@manson.clss.net>
Subject: Re: Module Names - Hyphen Converted to Underscore
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In-Reply-To: <1104177282.5683.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> from "Tomasz Torcz" at Dec 27, 2004 08:54:42 PM
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Tomasz Torcz writes the following:
>
> modprobe intelligently adds or removes a module from the Linux kernel:
>note  that  for  convenience,there  is  no  difference  between  _  and
>- in module names. 

What definition of convenience led to this?

In that spirit, should fs now interpret backslash as a directory separator?
Having to remember the difference is SO inconvenient.