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/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw-ethtool.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw-ethtool.c b/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw-ethtool.c index d7f4ed1df..0af2e9914 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw-ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw-ethtool.c @@ -38,19 +38,19 @@ static void dpaa2_switch_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *netdev, u16 version_major, version_minor; int err; - strlcpy(drvinfo->driver, KBUILD_MODNAME, sizeof(drvinfo->driver)); + strscpy(drvinfo->driver, KBUILD_MODNAME, sizeof(drvinfo->driver)); err = dpsw_get_api_version(port_priv->ethsw_data->mc_io, 0, &version_major, &version_minor); if (err) - strlcpy(drvinfo->fw_version, "N/A", + strscpy(drvinfo->fw_version, "N/A", sizeof(drvinfo->fw_version)); else snprintf(drvinfo->fw_version, sizeof(drvinfo->fw_version), "%u.%u", version_major, version_minor); - strlcpy(drvinfo->bus_info, dev_name(netdev->dev.parent->parent), + strscpy(drvinfo->bus_info, dev_name(netdev->dev.parent->parent), sizeof(drvinfo->bus_info)); } -- 2.29.2