On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 11:29:12AM +0100, Peter Hessler wrote: > On 2016 Dec 13 (Tue) at 10:51:40 +0100 (+0100), Reyk Floeter wrote: > :Non-contiguous netmasks will still be printed in full > > Why do we want to still support this? Can that be removed now? > > After a brief look, we only support non-contigous netmasks on lo > interfaces. Regardless, they are an artifact of a bad past that we > should kill off. >
Simple reasons: this is a different discussion or diff. If we would want to remove non-contiguous netmasks completely, it should be done in the stack. Until then, it is better that ifconfig can cope with them. Reyk
