diff -urNp module-init-tools-3.3-pre11_orig/depmod.c module-init-tools-3.3-pre11/depmod.c
--- module-init-tools-3.3-pre11_orig/depmod.c	2007-03-22 12:36:02.000000000 -0400
+++ module-init-tools-3.3-pre11/depmod.c	2007-03-22 15:07:15.000000000 -0400
@@ -701,13 +701,8 @@ static void filename2modname(char *modna
 	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';
 }