linux-kernel - Re: [Fwd: [PATCH 1/2] string: Add stracpy and stracpy

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jul 2019 09:28:34 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
        cocci <cocci@...teme.lip6.fr>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [PATCH 1/2] string: Add stracpy and stracpy_pad
 mechanisms]

On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 10:07 -0400, Julia Lawall wrote:
> I see that stracpy is now in linux-next.  Would it be reasonable to send
> patches adding uses now?

My preference would be to have:

o A provably correct script  If a small subset of
  possible conversions are skipped, that's fine.
o As piecemeal patches cause a lot of churn, work
  for individual maintainers, and also are not
  universally applied, have that script run
  kernel-wide after an rc1 and applied all-at-once.