Re: bridge-netfilter patch

[David S. Miller]

   From: Bart De Schuymer <[e-mail]>
   Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:05:40 +0200

   On Friday 13 September 2002 20:22, David S. Miller wrote:
   > First explain to me why the copy is needed for.
   
   memcpy(skb2->data - 16, skb->data - 16, 16);
   
   This is for purely bridged packets.

Why is it being added, therefore, to ip_queue_xmit() which is only
ever invoked by TCP output processing?

If the patch adds the call somewhere else, please correct me, but
I specifically remember it being added to ip_queue_xmit() which is
why I barfed when seeing it :-)