[PATCH 0/2] cleanup use of rte_strlcpy
Tyler Retzlaff
roretzla at linux.microsoft.com
Fri Jun 2 23:46:35 CEST 2023
On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 11:18:52AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 03:05:31PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > In DPDK API's rte_strlcpy() is not intended to be used directly.
> > It was introduced as a replacement for when operating system
> > libraries were missing strlcpy(). Over time it appears several
> > drivers and subsystems started using it directly, which is
> > inefficient since the wrapper uses snprintf().
> >
> > This series makes sure that the only usage of rte_strlcpy()
> > is in rte_string_fns.h where it is needed.
> >
> > Perhaps checkpatch should warn about other uses?
> >
> > Stephen Hemminger (2):
> > lib: replace rte_strlcpy() with strlcpy()
> > drivers: don't use rte_strlcpy
> >
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
Acked-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla at linux.microsoft.com>
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