Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] hwmon: introduce hwmon_sanitize()

[Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>]

Am 2022-03-28 18:27, schrieb Guenter Roeck:
> On 3/28/22 05:56, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>> I'm not sure how to handle this correctly, as this touches both the
>>> network tree and the hwmon tree. Also, the GPY PHY temperature senors
>>> driver would use it.
>> 
>> There are a few options:
>> 
>> 1) Get the hwmon_sanitize_name() merged into hwmon, ask for a stable
>> branch, and get it merged into netdev net-next.
>> 
>> 2) Have the hwmon maintainers ACK the change and agree that it can be
>> merged via netdev.
>> 
>> Probably the second option is easiest, and since it is not touching
>> the core of hwmon, it is unlikely to cause merge conflicts.
>> 
> 
> 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?

-michael