From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752779Ab0JRA0b (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:26:31 -0400 Received: from proofpoint-cluster.metrocast.net ([65.175.128.136]:34688 "EHLO proofpoint-cluster.metrocast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752465Ab0JRA0V (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:26:21 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv4: Remove check for ipv4_is_lbcast() that will always return false From: Andy Walls To: David Miller Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, kaber@trash.net In-Reply-To: <20101012.122841.183039561.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1286727021.2435.17.camel@localhost> <20101012.122841.183039561.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:25:51 -0400 Message-ID: <1287361551.2320.17.camel@morgan.silverblock.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 (2.28.3-1.fc12) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.2.15,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2010-10-17_08:2010-10-15,2010-10-17,1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=5 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-1005130000 definitions=main-1010170109 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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.