Subject: Re: [PATCH] skbuff: make skb_put_zero() return void

From: Johannes Berg <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 22:40:29 +0200

On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 13:36 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> Given you are adding a lot of these, it might be better
> to add an exported function that duplicates most of
> skb_put with a memset at the end.

Yeah, could be done. I'm not sure why you'd want to duplicate it rather
than call it though? To make it about as fast?

Anyway, no objections really - just originally thought of it more as a
typing aid than an optimisation.

johannes