On Monday 26 April 2010 17:24:13 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
They are not really needed, but just wanted to have them in for later usage and to have it more consistent (otherwise copy and paste easily leads to funny effects for some people which cannot be reproduced by the maintainers). So it could be removed in recv_icmp_packet and recv_unicast_packet if you prefer it.
Ok, I somehow figured that this was meant to combat copy & paste but I wanted to make sure. :-) Your patch was applied in revision 1640.
Thanks, Marek