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/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_ethtool.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_ethtool.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_ethtool.c index 6ae7a67e7..f4f7b74c8 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_ethtool.c @@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ static void _rtl92e_ethtool_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *dev, { struct r8192_priv *priv = rtllib_priv(dev); - strlcpy(info->driver, DRV_NAME, sizeof(info->driver)); - strlcpy(info->version, DRV_VERSION, sizeof(info->version)); - strlcpy(info->bus_info, pci_name(priv->pdev), sizeof(info->bus_info)); + strscpy(info->driver, DRV_NAME, sizeof(info->driver)); + strscpy(info->version, DRV_VERSION, sizeof(info->version)); + strscpy(info->bus_info, pci_name(priv->pdev), sizeof(info->bus_info)); } static u32 _rtl92e_ethtool_get_link(struct net_device *dev) -- 2.29.2