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Commit 65cab850 authored by Dave Taht's avatar Dave Taht Committed by David S. Miller
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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.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 69d2c867
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