On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 00:50:28 +0200 Michael Walle wrote: > > No, it isn't the easiest solution because it also modifies a hwmon > > driver to use it. > > So that leaves us with option 1? The next version will contain the > additional patch which moves the hwmon_is_bad_char() from the include > to the core and make it private. That will then need an immutable > branch from netdev to get merged back into hwmon before that patch > can be applied, right? If anything immutable branch from hwmon that we can pull, because hwmon is the home of the API, and netdev is just _a_ consumer. Either way I think you can post the patch that adds the new helper for review.