Re: [PATCH] IPv4: Remove check for ipv4_is_lbcast() that willalways return false

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Oct 12 2010 - 15:28:26 EST


From: Andy Walls <awalls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 <awalls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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.
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