From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv4: Remove check for ipv4_is_lbcast() that will always return false Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:28:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20101012.122841.183039561.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1286727021.2435.17.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii 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: awalls@md.metrocast.net Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:46527 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751497Ab0JLT2W (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:28:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1286727021.2435.17.camel@localhost> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. Please give Documentation/email-clients.txt a read and resubmit this patch after you have these issues sorted out. Thank you.