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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] power: supply: register HWMON devices with valid names
Hi,

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 03:15:56PM +0200, Romain Izard wrote:
> With the introduction of the HWMON compatibility layer to the power
> supply framework in Linux 5.3, all power supply devices' names can be
> used directly to create HWMON devices with the same names.
>
> But HWMON has rules on allowable names that are different from those
> used in the power supply framework. The dash character is forbidden, as
> it is used by the libsensors library in userspace as a separator,
> whereas this character is used in the device names in more than half of
> the existing power supply drivers. This last case is consistent with the
> typical naming usage with MFD and Device Tree.
>
> This leads to warnings in the kernel log, with the format:
>
> power_supply gpio-charger: hwmon: \
> 'gpio-charger' is not a valid name attribute, please fix
>
> Add a protection to power_supply_add_hwmon_sysfs() that replaces any
> dash in the device name with an underscore when registering with the
> HWMON framework. Other forbidden characters (star, slash, space, tab,
> newline) are not replaced, as they are not in common use.
>
> Fixes: e67d4dfc9ff1 ("power: supply: Add HWMON compatibility layer")
> Signed-off-by: Romain Izard <romain.izard.pro@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> ---

Thanks, queued.

-- Sebastian

>
> v2: Remove a superfluous cast
>
> drivers/power/supply/power_supply_hwmon.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_hwmon.c b/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_hwmon.c
> index 51fe60440d12..75cf861ba492 100644
> --- a/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_hwmon.c
> +++ b/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_hwmon.c
> @@ -284,6 +284,7 @@ int power_supply_add_hwmon_sysfs(struct power_supply *psy)
> struct device *dev = &psy->dev;
> struct device *hwmon;
> int ret, i;
> + const char *name;
>
> if (!devres_open_group(dev, power_supply_add_hwmon_sysfs,
> GFP_KERNEL))
> @@ -334,7 +335,19 @@ int power_supply_add_hwmon_sysfs(struct power_supply *psy)
> }
> }
>
> - hwmon = devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info(dev, psy->desc->name,
> + name = psy->desc->name;
> + if (strchr(name, '-')) {
> + char *new_name;
> +
> + new_name = devm_kstrdup(dev, name, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!new_name) {
> + ret = -ENOMEM;
> + goto error;
> + }
> + strreplace(new_name, '-', '_');
> + name = new_name;
> + }
> + hwmon = devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info(dev, name,
> psyhw,
> &power_supply_hwmon_chip_info,
> NULL);
> --
> 2.17.1
>
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