Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: intel: ixgbe: ixgbe_main.c: Cleaning up missing null-terminate in conjunction with strncpy

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:24:36 +0200
Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Replacing strncpy with strlcpy to avoid strings that lacks null terminate.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
			   hw->mac.type, hw->phy.type, hw->phy.sfp_type,

This patch doesn't change anything.
Netdev is already zeroed when allocated therefore doing strncpy() guarantees
it will be null terminated.
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