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/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c index 0bf545849..1bb91a904 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c +++ b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c @@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ static void cvm_oct_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_drvinfo *info) { - strlcpy(info->driver, KBUILD_MODNAME, sizeof(info->driver)); - strlcpy(info->version, UTS_RELEASE, sizeof(info->version)); - strlcpy(info->bus_info, "Builtin", sizeof(info->bus_info)); + strscpy(info->driver, KBUILD_MODNAME, sizeof(info->driver)); + strscpy(info->version, UTS_RELEASE, sizeof(info->version)); + strscpy(info->bus_info, "Builtin", sizeof(info->bus_info)); } static int cvm_oct_nway_reset(struct net_device *dev) -- 2.29.2 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel