Hi Randy
On 7/20/20 2:37 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
On 7/20/20 9:57 AM, Murali Karicheri wrote:
diff --git a/net/hsr/Kconfig b/net/hsr/Kconfig
index 8095b034e76e..e2e396870230 100644
--- a/net/hsr/Kconfig
+++ b/net/hsr/Kconfig
@@ -4,24 +4,35 @@
#
config HSR
- tristate "High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR)"
- help
+ tristate "High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR & PRP)"
+ ---help---
Just use:
help
The use of "---help---" has been discontinued.
Ok. Will update.
+ This enables IEC 62439 defined High-availability Seamless
+ Redundancy (HSR) and Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP).
+
If you say Y here, then your Linux box will be able to act as a
- DANH ("Doubly attached node implementing HSR"). For this to work,
- your Linux box needs (at least) two physical Ethernet interfaces,
- and it must be connected as a node in a ring network together with
- other HSR capable nodes.
+ DANH ("Doubly attached node implementing HSR") or DANP ("Doubly
+ attached node implementing PRP"). For this to work, your Linux box
+ needs (at least) two physical Ethernet interfaces.
+
+ For DANH, it must be connected as a node in a ring network together
+ with other HSR capable nodes. All Ethernet frames sent over the hsr
HSR
+ device will be sent in both directions on the ring (over both slave
+ ports), giving a redundant, instant fail-over network. Each HSR node
+ in the ring acts like a bridge for HSR frames, but filters frames
+ that have been forwarded earlier.
- All Ethernet frames sent over the hsr device will be sent in both
- directions on the ring (over both slave ports), giving a redundant,
- instant fail-over network. Each HSR node in the ring acts like a
- bridge for HSR frames, but filters frames that have been forwarded
- earlier.
+ For DANP, it must be connected as a node connecting to two
+ separate networks over the two slave interfaces. Like HSR, Ethernet
+ frames sent over the prp device will be sent to both networks giving
PRP
+ a redundant, instant fail-over network. Unlike HSR, PRP networks
+ can have Singly Attached Nodes (SAN) such as PC, printer, bridges
+ etc and will be able to communicate with DANP nodes.
This code is a "best effort" to comply with the HSR standard as
described in IEC 62439-3:2010 (HSRv0) and IEC 62439-3:2012 (HSRv1),
- but no compliancy tests have been made. Use iproute2 to select
- the version you desire.
+ and PRP standard described in IEC 62439-4:2012 (PRP), but no
+ compliancy tests have been made. Use iproute2 to select the protocol
+ you would like to use.
You need to perform any and all necessary tests yourself before
relying on this code in a safety critical system!
thanks.
--
Murali Karicheri
Texas Instruments
