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/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c index 80d74cce2..df77b6bf5 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c @@ -939,8 +939,8 @@ static int do_devinfo_ioctl(struct comedi_device *dev, /* fill devinfo structure */ devinfo.version_code = COMEDI_VERSION_CODE; devinfo.n_subdevs = dev->n_subdevices; - strlcpy(devinfo.driver_name, dev->driver->driver_name, COMEDI_NAMELEN); - strlcpy(devinfo.board_name, dev->board_name, COMEDI_NAMELEN); + strscpy(devinfo.driver_name, dev->driver->driver_name, COMEDI_NAMELEN); + strscpy(devinfo.board_name, dev->board_name, COMEDI_NAMELEN); s = comedi_file_read_subdevice(file); if (s) -- 2.29.2 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel