[PATCH] arm64: defconfig: Enable HSR driver

Ravi Gunasekaran r-gunasekaran at ti.com
Thu Apr 18 23:25:24 PDT 2024


Arnd,

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.

>     Arnd

-- 
Regards,
Ravi



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