[PATCH] module-init-tools: don't do '-' substitutions in depmod

The attached patch removes the '-' for '_' substitution from
depmod - this makes the names printed for modules in module.alias
match the actual names of the module files.

Bill

diff -ru depmod.c.old depmod.c
--- depmod.c	2005-04-30 08:38:46.000000000 -0400
+++ depmod.c	2005-09-08 15:52:26.000000000 -0400
@@ -607,13 +607,8 @@
 	else
 		afterslash++;
 
-	/* Convert to underscores, stop at first . */
-	for (i = 0; afterslash[i] && afterslash[i] != '.'; i++) {
-		if (afterslash[i] == '-')
-			modname[i] = '_';
-		else
+	for (i = 0; afterslash[i] && afterslash[i] != '.'; i++)
 			modname[i] = afterslash[i];
-	}
 	modname[i] = '\0';
 }
 

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