linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] EDAC/ghes: Replace deprecated strcpy in ghes_edac_report_mem

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Message-ID: <20251116113759.GAaRm3l7yimgdxc5TD@fat_crate.local>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2025 12:37:59 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] EDAC/ghes: Replace deprecated strcpy in
 ghes_edac_report_mem_error

On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 05:00:05PM +0100, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> strcpy() is deprecated; use strscpy() instead. No functional changes.

Please put the reason why it is deprecated here using

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy

so that the commit message is self-contained.

Then you can point to our documentation instead of some page:

> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88

we don't really control and can become obsolete.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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