[Babel-users] V4-via-v6, which Linux kernel patches for OpenWrt 22.03?

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Juliusz Chroboczek <jch at irif.fr> writes:

> Hi Linus!
>
>> Regarding [0] does anyone have an overview of which Linux kernel
>> patches might need backporting when trying this v4-via-v6 feature
>> of Babel on OpenWrt 22.03's Linux 5.10 kernel?
>
> Toke will correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I'm aware, it's just this:
>
>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=321827477360

Ah yes, I was trying to remember which patch we were talking about, but
of course it's that one.

Note that if you set an IPv4 address on the loopback interface, that
patch is not needed either; it's only fixes the last-resort address
selection where no address is set on the system at all...

-Toke