linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-2.6.24] remove bogus qeth type check

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Date:	Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:46:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	mm-commits@...r.kernel.org, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.24] remove bogus qeth type check

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:24:58 -0700

[ SOrry, I just noticed this was different... ]

> Not sure why this crept in with hard-header-ops change.
> Just kill it. Need to start doing cross-compiles for s390...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
> 
> --- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c	2007-10-10 08:26:48.000000000 -0700
> +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c	2007-10-11 13:21:17.000000000 -0700
> @@ -6581,9 +6581,6 @@ qeth_hard_header_parse(const struct sk_b
>  	const struct qeth_card *card;
>  	const struct ethhdr *eth;
>  
> -	if (dev->type != ARPHRD_IEEE802_TR)
> -		return 0;
> -
>  	card = qeth_get_card_from_dev(skb->dev);
>  	if (card->options.layer2)
>  		goto haveheader;

I think you copied the check from another part of the driver.
Perhaps you should double check before we kill this outright.
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