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@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c index a28f0254c..635d3338f 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c @@ -417,15 +417,15 @@ static void ql_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *ndev, { struct ql_adapter *qdev = netdev_priv(ndev); - strlcpy(drvinfo->driver, qlge_driver_name, sizeof(drvinfo->driver)); - strlcpy(drvinfo->version, qlge_driver_version, + strscpy(drvinfo->driver, qlge_driver_name, sizeof(drvinfo->driver)); + strscpy(drvinfo->version, qlge_driver_version, sizeof(drvinfo->version)); snprintf(drvinfo->fw_version, sizeof(drvinfo->fw_version), "v%d.%d.%d", (qdev->fw_rev_id & 0x00ff0000) >> 16, (qdev->fw_rev_id & 0x0000ff00) >> 8, (qdev->fw_rev_id & 0x000000ff)); - strlcpy(drvinfo->bus_info, pci_name(qdev->pdev), + strscpy(drvinfo->bus_info, pci_name(qdev->pdev), sizeof(drvinfo->bus_info)); } -- 2.29.2 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel