diff --git a/include/sound/simple_card_utils.h b/include/sound/simple_card_utils.h
index 50aa7b22a94c80acdf720fa317e8f6c70b1d17fe..b88a8dcfe4ba6f8f4e61cfa729b88d2ce03629c8 100644
--- a/include/sound/simple_card_utils.h
+++ b/include/sound/simple_card_utils.h
@@ -27,5 +27,8 @@ int asoc_simple_card_parse_daifmt(struct device *dev,
 				  struct device_node *codec,
 				  char *prefix,
 				  unsigned int *retfmt);
+int asoc_simple_card_set_dailink_name(struct device *dev,
+				      struct snd_soc_dai_link *dai_link,
+				      const char *fmt, ...);
 
 #endif /* __SIMPLE_CARD_CORE_H */
diff --git a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c
index 3f6b72526f71926ed1fcd1509ea64e621b47f0ab..48c73660b66ae38af3d180580f84ba152faa78b5 100644
--- a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c
+++ b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c
@@ -52,3 +52,26 @@ int asoc_simple_card_parse_daifmt(struct device *dev,
 	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(asoc_simple_card_parse_daifmt);
+
+int asoc_simple_card_set_dailink_name(struct device *dev,
+				      struct snd_soc_dai_link *dai_link,
+				      const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+	va_list ap;
+	char *name = NULL;
+	int ret = -ENOMEM;
+
+	va_start(ap, fmt);
+	name = devm_kvasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL, fmt, ap);
+	va_end(ap);
+
+	if (name) {
+		ret = 0;
+
+		dai_link->name		= name;
+		dai_link->stream_name	= name;
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(asoc_simple_card_set_dailink_name);