diff --git a/modalias.prov b/modalias.prov
index c5eda32..3b7337f 100644
--- a/modalias.prov
+++ b/modalias.prov
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ combine_modaliases() {
     print_modaliases "$class" "$variants" "$pos"
 }
 
-for module in $(grep -E '/lib/modules/.+\.ko$') $*; do
+for module in $(grep -E '/lib/modules/.+\.ko(\.gz|\.bz2|\.xz)?$') "$@"; do
     # | head -n1 because some modules have *two* version tags. *cough*b44*cough*
     modver=$(/sbin/modinfo -F version "$module"| head -n1)
     modver=${modver// /_}