netdev - Re: [PATCH] Allow class-e address assignment via ifconfig ioctl

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Date:   Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:39:41 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dave.taht@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow class-e address assignment via ifconfig ioctl

From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@...il.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.taht@...il.com>

Applied, thanks Dave.