On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 5:45 PM Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:01 AM Loganaden Velvindron
> <logana...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 6:15 PM Loganaden Velvindron <logana...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I read the guidelines for LTS/stable.
> > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
> > >
> > >
> > > Although this is not a bugfix, I am humbly submitting a request so
> > > that commit id
> > > -- 96125bf9985a75db00496dd2bc9249b777d2b19b Allow 0.0.0.0/8 as a valid
> > > address range -- is backported to all LTS kernels.
> > >
> > > My motivation for such a request is that we need this patch to be as
> > > widely deployed as possible and as early as possible for interop and
> > > hopefully move into better utilization of ipv4 addresses space. Hence
> > > my request for it be added to -stable.
> > >
> >
> > Any feedback ?
> >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > //Logan
>
> I am perfectly willing to wait a year or so on the -stable front to
> see what, if any, problems that ensue from mainlining this in 5.3.
> It's straightforward for distros that wish to do this backport (like
> openwrt) to do it now, and other OSes will take longer than this to
> adopt, regardless.
>
>
ping davem
> --
>
> Dave Täht
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> http://www.teklibre.com
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