David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> writes:
> 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.
Thanks, but...
Into what tree did you pull it? it's not in net-next as I speak.
I reworked it a bit, giving a hat tip to Vince Fuller and his original
patch here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/7/370
http://www.taht.net/classe/0001-linux-kernel-Allow-class-e-address-assignment-via-ifconfig-ioctl.patch
and was minutes away from submitting that version when you took this.
