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SubjectRe: [PATCH 06/13] staging: octeon: Switch from strlcpy to strscpy
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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