On Wednesday 03 November 2010 11:25:12 Tobias Klauser wrote:
I was refering to the following part of the patch:
if (is_bcast(ethhdr->h_dest) || is_mcast(ethhdr->h_dest)) {
if (is_multicast_ether_addr(ethhdr->h_dest)) {
I think this change should be legitimate as the same branch is done for multicast and broadcast addresses.
Soon we will have different code paths for broadcast and multicast right at this spot as multicast can be optimized further. But I think we can merge the change for the time being.
Regards, Marek