Re: Module Names - Hyphen Converted to Underscore

From: Alan Curry
Date: Mon Dec 27 2004 - 15:13:28 EST


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.

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