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| author | Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <ldir@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> | 2018-12-16 19:13:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <ldir@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> | 2018-12-17 10:40:20 +0000 |
| commit | 2574c86ce66c4032e5905d46601106ccc0c69676 (patch) | |
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kernel: backport ifconfig ioctl support for class e addresses
Backport net: Allow class-e address assignment via ifconfig ioctl
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.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=65cab850f0eeaa9180bd2e10a231964f33743edf
Signed-off-by: Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <ldir@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>
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