On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:50:16PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > 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.
You should at least ask, it's only nice to do so. > > 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 .. That doesn't mean anything, sorry. We don't want to duplicate stuff that can already be done using i2c-dev and the like, right? > > 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. That still doesn't explain what this driver is used for to me, sorry. Care to explain? thanks, greg k-h -- 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/
