linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] hwmon: introduce hwmon_sanitize

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Message-ID: <32e0a05294d18c88efc41ed85c082c80@walle.cc>
Date:   Thu, 31 Mar 2022 17:12:56 +0200
From:   Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
To:     "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@...el.com>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
        Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] hwmon: introduce hwmon_sanitize_name()

Am 2022-03-31 16:58, schrieb Russell King (Oracle):

> Note that there's another "sanitisation" of hwmon names in
> drivers/net/phy/marvell.c - that converts any non-alnum character to
> an underscore. Not sure why the different approach was chosen there.

I saw that, but I didn't touch it because it would change the
name. I guess that will be an incompatible userspace change.

-michael