linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v3 1/2] hwmon: introduce hwmon_sanitize

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Message-ID: <dd24d0ecc84e4576bfde16d80d971f88@AcuMS.aculab.com>
Date:   Tue, 5 Apr 2022 08:20:09 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Guenter Roeck' <linux@...ck-us.net>, Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>,
        "Michael Walle" <michael@...le.cc>, Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@...el.com>,
        Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
CC:     "linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 1/2] hwmon: introduce hwmon_sanitize_name()

From: Guenter Roeck
> Sent: 05 April 2022 00:31
...
> >>   /**
> >>    * hwmon_is_bad_char - Is the char invalid in a hwmon name
> >
> > This still needed in *.h ?
> >
> 
> Yes, because it is used by out-of-tree drivers. We can only move
> that into hwmon.c after all users are gone.

And drivers might want to 'sanitize' a copy of the name without
reallocating it.

	David

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