Current version of Linux kernel checkpatch now complains about usages of strlcpy because the Linux kernel prefers strcspy.
WARNING:STRLCPY: Prefer strscpy over strlcpy But DPDK project allows strlcpy, therefore suppress the warning. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> --- v3 - yet another commit message typo 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