During development of the support for the temperature sensor on the GPY
PHY, I've noticed that there is ususually a loop over the name to
replace any invalid characters. Instead of open coding it in the drivers
provide a convenience function.

The last patch is marked as RFC, it should probably be reposted/applied
to the kernel release after next (?).

changes since v1:
 - split patches
 - add hwmon-kernel-api.rst documentation
 - move the strdup into the hwmon core
 - also provide a resource managed variant

Michael Walle (5):
  hwmon: introduce hwmon_sanitize_name()
  hwmon: intel-m10-bmc-hwmon: use devm_hwmon_sanitize_name()
  net: sfp: use hwmon_sanitize_name()
  net: phy: nxp-tja11xx: use devm_hwmon_sanitize_name()
  hwmon: move hwmon_is_bad_char() into core

 Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst |  9 +++-
 drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c                    | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/hwmon/intel-m10-bmc-hwmon.c      |  7 +--
 drivers/net/phy/nxp-tja11xx.c            |  7 +--
 drivers/net/phy/sfp.c                    |  8 +--
 include/linux/hwmon.h                    | 24 +--------
 6 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

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