netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/4] bridge: don't change packet type

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Message-Id: <20070425.220517.62667709.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:05:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bridge@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] bridge: don't change packet type

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:47:38 -0700

> The change to forward STP bpdu's (for usermode STP) through normal path,
> changed the packet type in the process. Since link local stuff is multicast, it
> should stay pkt_type = PACKET_MULTICAST.  The code was probably copy/pasted
> incorrectly from the bridge pseudo-device receive path.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>

Applied.

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