via-rhine or via_rhine ?

[James Wilkinson]

Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote:
> I try to autoload the right module for my NIC.
> I see that there is via_rhine and via-rhine working.
> 
> What's the difference between them? are they just the same except the
> name?

You might find this page enlightening:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/2466?PHPSESSID=10e65775fd870bf363f8e1b99110885d

Linus Torvalds says:
> The filesystem policy _tends_ to be that dashes and spaces are turned
> into underscores when used as filenames. Don't ask me why (well, the
> space part is obvious, since real spaces tend to be a pain to use on
> the command line, but don't ask me why people tend to conver a dash to
> an underscore).

And man modprobe says:
> modprobe intelligently adds or removes a module from the Linux kernel:
> note that for convenience, there is no difference between _ and - in
> module names.

Hope this helps,

James.

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