Re: Fwd: [PATCH net-next 1/2] lib: string: add strreplace_nonalnum

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 07:04:21PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> On 03.03.2019 18:55, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 06:47:32PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> >> I submitted this through the netdev tree, maybe relevant for you as well.
> >> See also here: https://marc.info/?t=155103900100003&r=1&w=2
> >>
> >> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> >> Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/2] lib: string: add strreplace_nonalnum
> >> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 18:20:50 +0100
> >> From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> CC: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Add a new function strreplace_nonalnum that replaces all
> >> non-alphanumeric characters. Such functionality is needed e.g. when a
> >> string is supposed to be used in a sysfs file name. If '\0' is given
> >> as new character then non-alphanumeric characters are cut. 
> > 
> > sysfs doesn't have any such requirements, it can use whatever you want
> > to give it for a filename.
> > 
> Even a slash?

Is a slash an illegal character for a file to have?  It's up to the vfs
to care about this, don't force random parts of the kernel to care :)

> HWMON drivers is an example where such functionality occurs open-coded.

Is that data coming from userspace or from a kernel driver?

thanks,

greg k-h