Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Feb 2021 15:36:24 +0100 | From | Robert Richter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 06/13] staging: octeon: Switch from strlcpy to strscpy |
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On 31.01.21 22:58:27, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi wrote: > strlcpy is marked as deprecated in Documentation/process/deprecated.rst, > and there is no functional difference when the caller expects truncation > (when not checking the return value). strscpy is relatively better as it > also avoids scanning the whole source string. > > This silences the related checkpatch warnings from: > 5dbdb2d87c29 ("checkpatch: prefer strscpy to strlcpy") > > Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> > --- > drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
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