--- zzzz-none-000/linux-5.15.111/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c	2023-05-11 14:00:40.000000000 +0000
+++ puma7-arm-6670-761/linux-5.15.111/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c	2024-02-07 09:27:53.000000000 +0000
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@
  *
  * ==FILEVERSION 20041108==
  */
+/* 
+ * Includes Intel Corporation's changes/modifications dated: [11/07/2011].
+* Changed/modified portions - Copyright © [2011], Intel Corporation.
+*/
 
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
@@ -94,6 +98,10 @@
 #define PF_TO_PPP(pf)		PF_TO_X(pf, struct ppp)
 #define PF_TO_CHANNEL(pf)	PF_TO_X(pf, struct channel)
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_TI_PACKET_PROCESSOR
+extern int ti_pp_ppp_vpid_info;
+extern int ti_pp_ppp_sid;
+#endif
 /*
  * Data structure to hold primary network stats for which
  * we want to use 64 bit storage.  Other network stats
@@ -3318,6 +3326,9 @@
 	struct net_device *dev;
 	struct ppp *ppp;
 	int err;
+#ifdef CONFIG_TI_PACKET_PROCESSOR
+    int ti_pp_save_dev_padded = 0;
+#endif 
 
 	dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(struct ppp), "", NET_NAME_ENUM, ppp_setup);
 	if (!dev) {
@@ -3333,8 +3344,31 @@
 	if (err < 0)
 		goto err_dev;
 	ppp = netdev_priv(dev);
+#ifdef CONFIG_TI_PACKET_PROCESSOR
+    /* Inheritance at work here. We copy the VPID Information block from the parent device
+     * to the new PPP Device. */
+	memcpy((void *)&dev->vpid_block, (void *)ti_pp_ppp_vpid_info,sizeof(TI_PP_VPID));
+	ti_pp_ppp_vpid_info = 0;
+#endif //CONFIG_TI_PACKET_PROCESSOR
 	*unit = ppp->file.index;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_TI_PACKET_PROCESSOR
+    /* Save the dev->padded temporarily while we overwrite with PPP Session 
+     * ID and send to HIL PP. */
+    ti_pp_save_dev_padded = dev->padded;
+
+    /* Send an event to HIL PP indicating that a new PPP interface is 
+     * being created. The HIL PP could use this info to create a VPID 
+     * and maintain an association between the PP session and VPID data 
+     * structures and the PPP interface */
+    dev->padded = ti_pp_ppp_sid;
+    ti_hil_pp_event(TI_PPP_INTERFACE_CREATED, (void *)dev);
+    ti_pp_ppp_sid = 0;
+
+    /* Restore the dev->padded to what we had saved. */
+    dev->padded = ti_pp_save_dev_padded;
+#endif //CONFIG_TI_PACKET_PROCESSOR
+
 	rtnl_unlock();
 
 	return 0;