netdev - Re: [PATCH v6] net/hsr: Add support for the High-availability Seamless Redundancy protocol (HSRv0)

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Message-ID: <1383602585.28651.10.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:03:05 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Arvid Brodin <arvid.brodin@...n.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Javier Boticario <jboticario@...il.com>,
	"balferreira@...glemail.com" <balferreira@...glemail.com>,
	Elías Molina Muñoz 
	<elias.molina@....es>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] net/hsr: Add support for the High-availability
 Seamless Redundancy protocol (HSRv0)

On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 20:34 +0100, Arvid Brodin wrote:
> On 2013-10-30 21:15, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 21:10 +0100, Arvid Brodin wrote:
> >> High-availability Seamless Redundancy ("HSR") provides instant failover
> >> redundancy for Ethernet networks. It requires a special network topology where
> >> all nodes are connected in a ring (each node having two physical network
> >> interfaces). It is suited for applications that demand high availability and
> >> very short reaction time.
> > 
> > Thanks Arvid.  Maybe add a MAINTAINERS entry too?
> 
> Something like this?

Yes, with a nit below:

>  S:     Maintained
>  F:     drivers/net/usb/hso.c
>  
> +HSR NETWORK PROTOCOL
> +M:     Arvid Brodin <arvid.brodin@...n.com>
> +L:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
> +S:     Maintained
> +F:     net/hsr/*

Using
F:	net/hsr/

will allow any subdirectories to also be under
the same "Maintained" block.

> This would indicate that people should CC me when they send patches or find bugs, 
> and that I should review the patch within a couple of weeks and get back to the
> sender and the list with my comments, right? Just making sure I understand what 
> would be expected of me.
> 
> And where should the MAINTAINERS patch go - to netdev or to lkml?

I think netdev with lkml cc'd.


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