netdev - Re: [RFC] skbuff: introduce skb_put

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Message-Id: <20170526.105803.2151646617349245343.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 26 May 2017 10:58:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] skbuff: introduce skb_put_zero()

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 08:58:49 +0200

> On Thu, 2017-05-25 at 13:01 -0400, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
>> Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 09:07:47 +0200
>> 
>> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
>> > 
>> > This pattern was introduced a number of times in mac80211 just now,
>> > and since it's present in a number of other places it makes sense
>> > to add a little helper for it.
>> > 
>> > The transformations of all code were done with the following
>> spatch:
> [...]
>> > NB: the patch won't apply to net-next because a few of the mac80211
>> >     users don't exist there yet
>> 
>> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
>> 
>> No objections, feel free to push this in via your mac80211 tree.
> 
> Do you think I should include the conversions in other drivers, or
> would you prefer to get those as a separate patch later?

Probably better to keep that as a separate patch.