From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Walls Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv4: Remove check for ipv4_is_lbcast() that will always return false Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:25:51 -0400 Message-ID: <1287361551.2320.17.camel@morgan.silverblock.net> References: <1286727021.2435.17.camel@localhost> <20101012.122841.183039561.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, kaber@trash.net To: David Miller Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20101012.122841.183039561.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 12:28 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Andy Walls > Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:10:21 -0400 > > > In making an IPv4 routing decision, packets with an all 1's broadcast > > destination are accepted as input packets, before being checked for being a > > martian. Remove the martian check for the all 1's broadcast destination > > address. Make the initial check for the all 1's broadcast destination > > address easier to read. > > > > Signed-off-by: Andy Walls > > Your email client corrupted this patch, by turning tab characters > into spaces, amongst other things. No, that was me in a rush, thoughtlessly cutting and pasting into the e-mail client window. I will resubmit shortly. Sorry for the wasting your time on the malformed submission. Regards, Andy > Please give Documentation/email-clients.txt a read and resubmit this > patch after you have these issues sorted out. > > Thank you.