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diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst index 8297acfa3a2d..e47fc757e63e 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst @@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ hwmon_device_register_with_info. All supported hwmon device registration functions only accept valid device names. Device names including invalid characters (whitespace, '*', or '-') -will be rejected. The 'name' parameter is mandatory. +will be rejected. If NULL is passed as name parameter, the hardware monitoring +device name will be derived from the parent device name. If the driver doesn't use a static device name (for example it uses dev_name()), and therefore cannot make sure the name only contains valid |