hwmon: Update documentation to clarify rules for the 'name' attribute

Clarify that the name attribute must report a valid name, and the rules
for valid names. Also clarify that the name parameter must be provided
for all supported API functions.

Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
index 2cc95ad46604..fc337c317c67 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
@@ -86,8 +86,9 @@ given driver if the chip has the feature.
 
 name            The chip name.
                 This should be a short, lowercase string, not containing
-                spaces nor dashes, representing the chip name. This is
-                the only mandatory attribute.
+                whitespace, dashes, or the wildcard character '*'.
+                This attribute represents the chip name. It is the only
+                mandatory attribute.
                 I2C devices get this attribute created automatically.
                 RO