[PATCH] arm64: defconfig: Enable HSR driver

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024, at 08:25, Ravi Gunasekaran wrote:
> On 4/19/24 11:32 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 19, 2024, at 08:00, Ravi Gunasekaran wrote:
>>> HSR is a redundancy protocol that can be realized with any
>>> two port ethernet controller.
>>>
>>> Many of TI's K3 SoCs support multi port ethernet controller.
>>> So enable HSR driver inorder to support this protocol on
>>> such SoCs.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ravi Gunasekaran <r-gunasekaran at ti.com>
>> 
>> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>> 
>> The normal way this gets picked up into mainline is that you
>> send it to the K3 platform maintainers (added to Cc) and they
>> send me a pull request or forward the patch to soc at kernel.org.
>> 
>
> I usually do that for TI specific patches. This one seemed like a
> generic one as HSR protocol can be run on any multi port ethernet
> controller. So I wasn't sure about including TI maintainers. 
>
> But no harm in Cc'ing them. I will follow this advice for future
> patches.

Ah, I think I misread this as being much more hardware specific.
In a case like this, going through either a platform maintainer
or sending the patch directly to soc at kernel.org (with the usual
Ccs) is equally fine.

    Arnd