Re: [RFC] skbuff: introduce skb_put_zero()

From: Johannes Berg <redacted>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 08:58:49 +0200

On Thu, 2017-05-25 at 13:01 -0400, David Miller wrote:

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From: Johannes Berg <redacted>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 09:07:47 +0200

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From: Johannes Berg <redacted>

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:

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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-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>

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.