Re: this code does not get called in dev.c so do we need it?

From: nick@snowman.net
Date: Thu Oct 03 2002 - 15:14:10 EST


I'm not sure if this is a dumb question, but why arn't there any in-tree
drivers with support for this? Is it too ugly to merge?
        Nick

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, David S. Miller wrote:

>
> Fast routing, although not implemented in any in-tree drivers,
> does get used by some people who have hacked up drivers to support
> this.
>
> It allows IPv4 routing to occur right at the level of the device
> driver, it directly pushes an input packet to the output routine
> of the destination device all without leaving the driver.
>
> This code is used.
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