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/sm750fb/sm750.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c index 029f0d09e..c237a8f8e 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c +++ b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c @@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ static int lynxfb_set_fbinfo(struct fb_info *info, int index) fix->ywrapstep = crtc->ywrapstep; fix->accel = FB_ACCEL_SMI; - strlcpy(fix->id, fixId[index], sizeof(fix->id)); + strscpy(fix->id, fixId[index], sizeof(fix->id)); fix->smem_start = crtc->oScreen + sm750_dev->vidmem_start; pr_info("fix->smem_start = %lx\n", fix->smem_start); -- 2.29.2