linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ALSA: aoa: Remove redundant size arguments from strscpy()

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Message-ID: <87cy7wrz93.wl-tiwai@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 07:55:20 +0200
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,	Jaroslav Kysela
 <perex@...ex.cz>,	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,	Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...libre.com>,	Takashi Iwai
 <tiwai@...e.de>,	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-sound@...r.kernel.org,	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: aoa: Remove redundant size arguments from strscpy()

On Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:43:22 +0200,
Thorsten Blum wrote:
> 
> The size parameter of strscpy() is optional if the destination buffer
> has a fixed length and strscpy() can automatically determine its size
> using sizeof(). This makes many explicit size arguments redundant.
> 
> Remove them to shorten and simplify the code.
> 
> No functional changes intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>

Thanks, applied now.


Takashi