On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:42:06PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:17:48PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > This is a driver for the ternary content addressable memory unit from > > Renesas. It > > allows filtering on bits, and wildcards thru the chip. > > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwal...@fifo99.com> > > What about the Cisco copyright? Has that author signed off on this?
He's not aware of the release .. I can ask him to sign off, but I think it's academic (he doesn't care).. I don't think he knows what a sign off means. > And why a separate driver, can't you do this all from userspace as a > normal i2c driver? I don't know , can I ? This is what Cisco is currently using .. > > You are creating sysfs files without the corrisponding > Documentation/ABI/ files, why? Because I didn't realize I needed to.. This release is one in about 25 or so similar drivers that I am planning to release.. I wasn't really sure of what I needed to do w.r.t the sysfs interface details. Most of the drivers have them in some form. > and most important, what is a "ternary content addressable memory unit" > and what would you do with such a thing? I asked the same question when I looked at the driver. It's in wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_addressable_memory#Ternary_CAMs It used for filtering things by 0,1 or wildcard.. In Cisco case "things" is packets. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
