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/olpc_dcon/olpc_dcon.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/olpc_dcon.c b/drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/olpc_dcon.c index e7281212d..6d8e9a481 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/olpc_dcon.c +++ b/drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/olpc_dcon.c @@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ static struct notifier_block dcon_panic_nb = { static int dcon_detect(struct i2c_client *client, struct i2c_board_info *info) { - strlcpy(info->type, "olpc_dcon", I2C_NAME_SIZE); + strscpy(info->type, "olpc_dcon", I2C_NAME_SIZE); return 0; } -- 2.29.2