On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 10:54:43AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Latest versions of Linux kernel checkpatch now complain about
> uses of strlcpy (kernel perfers strcspy).
>
> WARNING:STRLCPY: Prefer strscpy over strlcpy
>
> But DPDK does not have strcspy so suppress the warning.
^^^
typo :-)
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
We actually do have an rte_strscpy function, but on the other hand I
believe that strlcpy should very much also be acceptable.
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>
> ---
> devtools/checkpatches.sh | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/devtools/checkpatches.sh b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> index c314d83a29d3..057208c8e1ea 100755
> --- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> +++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ VOLATILE,PREFER_PACKED,PREFER_ALIGNED,PREFER_PRINTF,\
> PREFER_KERNEL_TYPES,PREFER_FALLTHROUGH,BIT_MACRO,CONST_STRUCT,\
> SPLIT_STRING,LONG_LINE_STRING,C99_COMMENT_TOLERANCE,\
> LINE_SPACING,PARENTHESIS_ALIGNMENT,NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE,\
> -NEW_TYPEDEFS,COMPARISON_TO_NULL"
> +NEW_TYPEDEFS,COMPARISON_TO_NULL,STRLCPY"
> options="$options $DPDK_CHECKPATCH_OPTIONS"
>
> print_usage () {
> --
> 2.30.2
>
