On 3/28/22 04:52, Michael Walle wrote:
More and more drivers will check for bad characters in the hwmon name
and all are using the same code snippet. Consolidate that code by adding
a new hwmon_sanitize_name() function.
Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwmon/intel-m10-bmc-hwmon.c | 5 +----
include/linux/hwmon.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
Separate patches please, and the new function needs to be documented
in Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst.
Thanks,
Guenter
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/intel-m10-bmc-hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/intel-m10-bmc-hwmon.c
index 7a08e4c44a4b..e6e55fc30153 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/intel-m10-bmc-hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/intel-m10-bmc-hwmon.c
@@ -515,7 +515,6 @@ static int m10bmc_hwmon_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
struct intel_m10bmc *m10bmc = dev_get_drvdata(pdev->dev.parent);
struct device *hwmon_dev, *dev = &pdev->dev;
struct m10bmc_hwmon *hw;
- int i;
hw = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*hw), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!hw)
@@ -532,9 +531,7 @@ static int m10bmc_hwmon_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (!hw->hw_name)
return -ENOMEM;
- for (i = 0; hw->hw_name[i]; i++)
- if (hwmon_is_bad_char(hw->hw_name[i]))
- hw->hw_name[i] = '_';
+ hwmon_sanitize_name(hw->hw_name);
hwmon_dev = devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info(dev, hw->hw_name,
hw, &hw->chip, NULL);
diff --git a/include/linux/hwmon.h b/include/linux/hwmon.h
index eba380b76d15..210b8c0b2827 100644
--- a/include/linux/hwmon.h
+++ b/include/linux/hwmon.h
@@ -484,4 +484,20 @@ static inline bool hwmon_is_bad_char(const char ch)
}
}
+/**
+ * hwmon_sanitize_name - Replaces invalid characters in a hwmon name
+ * @name: NUL-terminated name
+ *
+ * Invalid characters in the name will be overwritten in-place by an
+ * underscore.
+ */
+static inline void hwmon_sanitize_name(char *name)
+{
+ while (*name) {
+ if (hwmon_is_bad_char(*name))
+ *name = '_';
+ name++;
+ };
+}
+
#endif
