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

From: Andy Walls
Date: Sun Oct 17 2010 - 20:26:35 EST


On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 12:28 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 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.


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.


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