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firewire: core: document fw_csr_string's truncation of long strings

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fw_csr_string() truncates and terminates target strings like strlcpy()
does.  Unlike strlcpy(), it returns the target strlen, not the source
strlen, hence users of fw_csr_string() are unable to detect truncation.

Point this behavior out in the kerneldoc comment.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
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@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ static int textual_leaf_to_string(const u32 *block, char *buf, size_t size)
*
* The string is taken from a minimal ASCII text descriptor leaf after
* the immediate entry with @key. The string is zero-terminated.
* An overlong string is silently truncated such that it and the
* zero byte fit into @size.
*
* Returns strlen(buf) or a negative error code.
*/
int fw_csr_string(const u32 *directory, int key, char *buf, size_t size)