[PATCH v2] checkpatches: suppress warning about strlcpy

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Nov 16 00:20:19 CET 2021


Current version of Linux kernel checkpatch now complains about
usages of strlcpy because the Linux kernel perfers strcspy.

WARNING:STRLCPY: Prefer strscpy over strlcpy

But DPDK project allows strlcpy, therefore suppress the warning.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
v2 - fix typo in commit messag

 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



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