From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:56:05 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] skd: use strncpy() as a cleanup Message-Id: <20130913125605.GL25896@mwanda> List-Id: References: <20130913080539.GG19211@elgon.mountain> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Jens Axboe , Jeff Moyer , Ramprasad Chinthekindi , Akhil Bhansali , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org" On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 02:03:23PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Dan Carpenter > > + strncpy(inq.driver_version, DRV_VER_COMPL, > > + min(sizeof(inq.driver_version), strlen(DRV_VER_COMPL))); > > This does the exact same thing as memcpy(), right? So why not use that? > memcpy() has much simpler semantics than strncpy(). You're right. I've redone this. regards, dan carpenter