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diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst index c41eb6108103..e2975d5caf34 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst @@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ register/unregister functions:: void devm_hwmon_device_unregister(struct device *dev); + char *hwmon_sanitize_name(const char *name); + + char *devm_hwmon_sanitize_name(struct device *dev, const char *name); + hwmon_device_register_with_groups registers a hardware monitoring device. The first parameter of this function is a pointer to the parent device. The name parameter is a pointer to the hwmon device name. The registration @@ -95,6 +99,18 @@ All supported hwmon device registration functions only accept valid device names. Device names including invalid characters (whitespace, '*', or '-') will be rejected. The 'name' parameter is mandatory. +If the driver doesn't use a static device name (for example it uses +dev_name()), and therefore cannot make sure the name only contains valid +characters, hwmon_sanitize_name can be used. This convenience function +will duplicate the string and replace any invalid characters with an +underscore. It will allocate memory for the new string and it is the +responsibility of the caller to release the memory when the device is +removed. + +devm_hwmon_sanitize_name is the resource managed version of +hwmon_sanitize_name; the memory will be freed automatically on device +removal. + Using devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info() -------------------------------------------- |