From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Taht Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow class-e address assignment via ifconfig ioctl Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 17:22:52 -0800 Message-ID: <87sgyye043.fsf@taht.net> References: <1544571034-25925-1-git-send-email-dave.taht@gmail.com> <20181214.153941.143117737784048381.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: dave.taht@gmail.com To: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.taht.net ([176.58.107.8]:32976 "EHLO mail.taht.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727227AbeLPBcn (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Dec 2018 20:32:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20181214.153941.143117737784048381.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:39:41 -0800 (PST)") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David Miller writes: > From: Dave Taht > 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 > > 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.