diff --git a/usr.sbin/kldxref/kldxref.8 b/usr.sbin/kldxref/kldxref.8
--- a/usr.sbin/kldxref/kldxref.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/kldxref/kldxref.8
@@ -50,14 +50,12 @@
 that directory) is removed.
 .Pp
 .Nm
-ignores files with at least two "."s in the filename, such as
-.Pa foo.ko.debug
-or
-.Pa bar.ko.pkgsave .
-Note that this means that modules cannot have names such as
-.Pa foo.bar.ko .
-This limitation however, has been lived practice since the beginning of
-FreeBSD's kernel modules.
+only processes files that either have no dots in their name like
+.Pa kernel
+or that end in
+.Dq .ko
+like
+.Pa foo.ko .
 .Pp
 The following options are available:
 .Bl -tag -width indent
diff --git a/usr.sbin/kldxref/kldxref.c b/usr.sbin/kldxref/kldxref.c
--- a/usr.sbin/kldxref/kldxref.c
+++ b/usr.sbin/kldxref/kldxref.c
@@ -842,10 +842,11 @@
 			continue;
 		/*
 		 * Skip files that generate errors like .debug, .symbol and .pkgsave
-		 * by generally skipping all files with 2 dots.
+		 * by generally skipping all files not ending with ".ko" or that have
+		 * no dots in the name (like kernel).
 		 */
-		dot = strchr(p->fts_name, '.');
-		if (dot && strchr(dot + 1, '.') != NULL)
+		dot = strrchr(p->fts_name, '.');
+		if (dot != NULL && strcmp(dot, ".ko") != 0)
 			continue;
 		read_kld(p->fts_path, p->fts_name);
 	}