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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c index affff8195fff..9a02c452f9e5 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c @@ -544,9 +544,11 @@ __hwmon_device_register(struct device *dev, const char *name, void *drvdata, struct device *hdev; int i, j, err, id; - /* Do not accept invalid characters in hwmon name attribute */ + /* Complain about invalid characters in hwmon name attribute */ if (name && (!strlen(name) || strpbrk(name, "-* \t\n"))) - return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + dev_warn(dev, + "hwmon: '%s' is not a valid name attribute, please fix\n", + name); id = ida_simple_get(&hwmon_ida, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL); if (id < 0) |