[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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