From: Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:30:34 -0800
> 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> Applied, thanks Dave.
