hwmon: Add helper to tell if a char is invalid in a name

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@lunn.ch>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/include/linux/hwmon.h b/include/linux/hwmon.h
index b217101ca76ed0f99ead3f8b4915aec8d43394d7..9493d4a388dbb9a3ac71b0fe9e56566eb90c8327 100644 (file)
--- 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