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>
diff --git a/net/ethernet/eth.c b/net/ethernet/eth.c
index 9bd3c31..f777e17 100644
--- a/net/ethernet/eth.c
+++ b/net/ethernet/eth.c
@@ -169,20 +169,9 @@
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