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ethernet: cleanup eth_type_trans

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Remove old legacy comment and weird if condition.
The comment has outlived it's stay and is throwback to some
early net code (before my time). Maybe Dave remembers what it meant.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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stephen hemminger 2013-09-27 17:19:41 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 06b0a9a4b2
commit 12861b7bc2
1 changed files with 3 additions and 14 deletions
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net/ethernet/eth.c
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@ -169,20 +169,9 @@ __be16 eth_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
else
skb->pkt_type = PACKET_MULTICAST;
}
/*
* This ALLMULTI check should be redundant by 1.4
* so don't forget to remove it.
*
* Seems, you forgot to remove it. All silly devices
* seems to set IFF_PROMISC.
*/
else if (1 /*dev->flags&IFF_PROMISC */) {
if (unlikely(!ether_addr_equal_64bits(eth->h_dest,
dev->dev_addr)))
skb->pkt_type = PACKET_OTHERHOST;
}
else if (unlikely(!ether_addr_equal_64bits(eth->h_dest,
dev->dev_addr)))
skb->pkt_type = PACKET_OTHERHOST;
/*
* Some variants of DSA tagging don't have an ethertype field