This patch by itself does nothing useful, other than remove a method.
If we assume you did the patch backwards, and wanted to add the method instead, then where is this method ever called? Ben Christophe Devriese wrote:
diff -rU3 linux-2.6.17.7/net/core/dev.c linux-2.6.17.7-wapper/net/core/dev.c --- linux-2.6.17.7/net/core/dev.c 2006-07-25 05:36:01.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.17.7-wapper/net/core/dev.c 2006-07-27 20:16:36.000000000 +0200 @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ #include <linux/sockios.h> #include <linux/errno.h> #include <linux/interrupt.h> +#include <linux/if_bonding.h> #include <linux/if_ether.h> #include <linux/netdevice.h> #include <linux/etherdevice.h> @@ -1518,37 +1519,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_rx_ni); -static inline struct net_device *skb_bond(struct sk_buff *skb) -{ - struct net_device *dev = skb->dev; - - if (dev->master) { - /* - * On bonding slaves other than the currently active - * slave, suppress duplicates except for 802.3ad - * ETH_P_SLOW and alb non-mcast/bcast. - */ - if (dev->priv_flags & IFF_SLAVE_INACTIVE) { - if (dev->master->priv_flags & IFF_MASTER_ALB) { - if (skb->pkt_type != PACKET_BROADCAST && - skb->pkt_type != PACKET_MULTICAST) - goto keep; - } - - if (dev->master->priv_flags & IFF_MASTER_8023AD && - skb->protocol == __constant_htons(ETH_P_SLOW)) - goto keep; - - kfree_skb(skb); - return NULL; - } -keep: - skb->dev = dev->master; - } - - return dev; -} - static void net_tx_action(struct softirq_action *h) { struct softnet_data *sd = &__get_cpu_var(softnet_data);
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