On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 02:16:04PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
From: Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com>
commit 65cab850f0eeaa9180bd2e10a231964f33743edf upstream.
While most distributions long ago switched to the iproute2 suite
of utilities, which allow class-e (240.0.0.0/4) address assignment,
distributions relying on busybox, toybox and other forms of
ifconfig cannot assign class-e addresses without this kernel patch.
While CIDR has been obsolete for 2 decades, and a survey of all the
open source code in the world shows the IN_whatever macros are also
obsolete... rather than obsolete CIDR from this ioctl entirely, this
patch merely enables class-e assignment, sanely.
Signed-off-by: Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.wall...@linaro.org>
Is this really a fix? This isn't something that ever worked.
Either way, David Miller will need to sign off on this since he manages
net/ -stable patches.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
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