From: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 13:22:41 -0500 > 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. I don't think this is -stable material at all.
