Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/14] net: dsa: Add support for hardware monitoring

From: Guenter Roeck <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 06:53:57 -0700

On 10/23/2014 12:55 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
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>
> Does hwmon offer a function to sanitise a string?
>
No, that wasn't necessary so far. The 'name' string is a constant string
provided by the driver.

> The switch index definitely should be used and i would probably
> combine that with a sanitised version of the ethernet device name and
> "dsa".
>

How is this ?

em1dsa0-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
temp1:        +38.0°C  (high = +100.0°C)

This is the sanitized network device name + 'dsa' + index.

Guenter