diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst
index 8297acfa3a2d8..e47fc757e63ed 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
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
index 9ed750d4c4f51..b7c0b1e3c23b8 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
@@ -1170,6 +1170,12 @@ devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info(struct device *dev, const char *name,
 	if (!dev)
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
+	if (!name) {
+		name = devm_hwmon_sanitize_name(dev, dev_name(dev));
+		if (IS_ERR(name))
+			return ERR_CAST(name);
+	}
+
 	ptr = devres_alloc(devm_hwmon_release, sizeof(*ptr), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ptr)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);