Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] net: Allow class-e address assignment via ifconfig ioctl

2019-02-14 Thread Kevin 'ldir' Darbyshire-Bryant
Hi Linus, FYI this was backported to the Openwrt patch tree by yours truly in https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=2574c86ce66c4032e5905d46601106ccc0c69676 and the follow up fix in

[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] net: Allow class-e address assignment via ifconfig ioctl

2019-02-14 Thread Linus Walleij
From: Dave Taht 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