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authorstephen hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>2013-09-28 04:19:41 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-10-01 08:52:52 +0400
commit12861b7bc2a32f7d36cdbc2ab5236819fa203836 (patch)
tree2fc148251d0450ef62138e2d047dd3e8b30b45ea /net
parent06b0a9a4b272c5bece2910f3c2118189baa684bc (diff)
downloadlinux-12861b7bc2a32f7d36cdbc2ab5236819fa203836.tar.xz
ethernet: cleanup eth_type_trans
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ethernet/eth.c17
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/net/ethernet/eth.c b/net/ethernet/eth.c
index 9bd3c31c30e5..f777e17d28c8 100644
--- a/net/ethernet/eth.c
+++ b/net/ethernet/eth.c
@@ -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