Advice on first patch
Bjørn Mork
bjorn at mork.no
Tue Oct 2 07:29:14 EDT 2012
matthew at walster.org writes:
> I'm hopefully going to be submitting the attached patch to the
> mainline kernel tree, and as it's my first patch, I figured it would
> be wise to run it past KN first in case I'd done something
> monumentally stupid! I found it through a checkpatch run, from the
> excellent talk by GregKH at FOSDEM a year or so back.
>
> Any input would be greatly appreciated!
Looks fine to me, but you might want to remove/update the related
comment as well:
/*
* 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;
}
Looks like someone was expecting a 1.4 at the time. We know better now
:-)
Bjørn
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