netdev - Re: [RFC 1/3] networking: make skb_put & friends return void pointers

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Date:   Fri, 16 Jun 2017 13:03:40 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] networking: make skb_put & friends return void
 pointers

On Fri, 2017-06-16 at 03:39 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> I would suggest avoiding using skb_put_u8 as it
> would suggest there should be skb_put_u16 etc

If there are enough users, I don't know why we wouldn't add it? Though
it should be _unaligned_le16 and _unaligned_be16, if at all :)

johannes