On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 02:16:04PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@xxxxxxxxx> 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.taht@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
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
