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Thanks for taking your time to look into this.
I've been all over the bullrush feats and paths in pathfinder lately and have now returned to the feat "Raging Throw".
I can see how the feat works in 2 ways. But can't tell for sure whether either is correct.
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Raging Throw
You expend some of your rage to throw one opponent at another.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Con 13, rage class feature, Improved Bull Rush, Power Attack, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: While raging, when you attempt a bull rush combat maneuver, you can spend 1 additional round of your rage as a swift action to add your Constitution bonus on your combat maneuver check to the bull rush.
Further, if you bull rush an opponent into a square another creature occupies or into a solid object, the opponent and the creature or object take bludgeoning damage equal to your Strength modifier + your Constitution modifier.
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ultimateCombat/ultimateCombatFeats.html
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I've devided the feat texts in 2, making it easier of understanding how the second ability might not be part of the action of applying the swift action.
The Swift action do enable you to apply your Con bonus to your Bull Rush, but is it required for the damage?
Can the second part of the text be considered passive?
(while the first part requires activation?)
The swift action is required if you wish to add your con bonus to the combat maneuver check. That is the only benefit I see it adding. The damage seems to happen automatically from my reading of it.
If the swift action is to apply to the damage they have would have to word it differently, especially since it is in another sentence.
They could have written the part about the swift action applying to the attack and damage as its own sentence if the intent was to require it to apply to both.