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LinuxKPI: treat firmware file names more lenient
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Authored by bz on Mar 31 2021, 3:44 PM.
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Summary

A lot of firmware files have a "-" in the name. That "-" is a problem
when dealing with shell variables or loader (e.g., auto-loading .ko).
It may thus often be convenient to generate firmware kernel object files
with s/-/_/g in the name. In order to automatically find them from
drivers using LinuxKPI also substitue the '-' for a '_' like we do
for '/' and '.' already.

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