diff --git a/meta-phosphor/classes/obmc-phosphor-utils.bbclass b/meta-phosphor/classes/obmc-phosphor-utils.bbclass
index 713c892..baaa19d 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/classes/obmc-phosphor-utils.bbclass
+++ b/meta-phosphor/classes/obmc-phosphor-utils.bbclass
@@ -42,3 +42,11 @@
     lists = [listvar_to_list(d, x) for x in listvars]
     lst = [fmt.format(*x) for x in zip(*lists)]
     return (kw.get('sep') or ' ').join(lst)
+
+
+def append_suffix(val, suffix):
+    words = val.split(' ')
+    newval = []
+    for w in words:
+        newval.append(w + suffix)
+    return ' '.join(newval)
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