diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/iio_hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/iio_hwmon.c
index 17ae2eb26ce2..b550ba5fa58a 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/iio_hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/iio_hwmon.c
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ static int iio_hwmon_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	enum iio_chan_type type;
 	struct iio_channel *channels;
 	const char *name = "iio_hwmon";
+	char *sname;
 
 	if (dev->of_node && dev->of_node->name)
 		name = dev->of_node->name;
@@ -144,7 +145,15 @@ static int iio_hwmon_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	st->attr_group.attrs = st->attrs;
 	st->groups[0] = &st->attr_group;
-	st->hwmon_dev = hwmon_device_register_with_groups(dev, name, st,
+
+	sname = devm_kstrdup(dev, name, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!sname) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto error_release_channels;
+	}
+
+	strreplace(sname, '-', '_');
+	st->hwmon_dev = hwmon_device_register_with_groups(dev, sname, st,
 							  st->groups);
 	if (IS_ERR(st->hwmon_dev)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(st->hwmon_dev);