Re: [PATCH v2] ASoC: Intel: Skylake: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Jul 27 2023 - 19:27:38 EST


On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 08:30:18PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
>
> A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
> guarantees NUL-termination on its destination buffer argument which is
> _not_ the case for `strncpy`!

Please don't send new patches in reply to old patches or serieses, this
makes it harder for both people and tools to understand what is going
on - it can bury things in mailboxes and make it difficult to keep track
of what current patches are, both for the new patches and the old ones.

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