HWMON device names are not allowed to contain "-* \t\n". Add a helper
which will return true if passed an invalid character. It can be used
to massage a string into a hwmon compatible name by replacing invalid
characters with '_'.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/hwmon.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/hwmon.h b/include/linux/hwmon.h
index b217101ca76e..9493d4a388db 100644
--- a/include/linux/hwmon.h
+++ b/include/linux/hwmon.h
@@ -398,4 +398,27 @@ devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info(struct device *dev,
void hwmon_device_unregister(struct device *dev);
void devm_hwmon_device_unregister(struct device *dev);
+/**
+ * hwmon_is_bad_char - Is the char invalid in a hwmon name
+ * @ch: the char to be considered
+ *
+ * hwmon_is_bad_char() can be used to determine if the given character
+ * may not be used in a hwmon name.
+ *
+ * Returns true if the char is invalid, false otherwise.
+ */
+static inline bool hwmon_is_bad_char(const char ch)
+{
+ switch (ch) {
+ case '-':
+ case '*':
+ case ' ':
+ case '\t':
+ case '\n':
+ return true;
+ default:
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
#endif
--
2.18.0
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