netdev - Re: [PATCH 11/18] wireless/ti: change strncpy+truncation to strlcpy

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Message-ID: <5B485917.7090102@broadcom.com>
Date:   Fri, 13 Jul 2018 09:47:35 +0200
From:   Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
Cc:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/18] wireless/ti: change strncpy+truncation to strlcpy

On 7/13/2018 9:38 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 03:25:49AM +0200, Dominique Martinet wrote:
>> Generated by scripts/coccinelle/misc/strncpy_truncation.cocci
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
>
> I don't know about other maintainers, but I know I wouldn't take such a
> horrid changelog description as this :)
>
> good luck!

especially as that script is not in the kernel tree yet. The patch 
adding that script contains a good motivation, but I would want to see 
that in commit message of every patch or at least the gist of it.

Regards,
Arend