Re: [PATCH] media: radio: Replace strlcat() with seq_buf in TEA drivers

[David Laight]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2026 10:41:06 -0800
Mariia Nikitash <nikitash.mariiaw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> David, I also see your point about leaving strlcat() in place until a
> more suitable append helper is available. I'll revisit the approach
> before deciding on a v2.

I really don't understand why strlcat() got marked deprecated without
a suitable replacement.
The performance of any form of strcpy(t + strlen(t), s) is horrid.
The only extra issue strlcat() has is to do with it doing strlen(s)
to generated the return value that most code doesn't want
(and in pretty much all reasonable cases is actually fine).

David