Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760904AbbBIUkZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2015 15:40:25 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([193.170.194.197]:54501 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760201AbbBIUkW (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2015 15:40:22 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 21:40:19 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa , Peter Zijlstra , Andi Kleen , Tom Huynh , benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, mingo@redhat.com, acme@kernel.org, Kim.Phillips@freescale.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf/e6500: Make event translations available in sysfs Message-ID: <20150209204019.GA13991@two.firstfloor.org> References: <1423262636-12053-1-git-send-email-tom.huynh@freescale.com> <1423262636-12053-2-git-send-email-tom.huynh@freescale.com> <20150209100242.GM23123@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20150209100738.GA5461@gmail.com> <20150209121132.GB3952@krava.redhat.com> <20150209132557.GA8099@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150209132557.GA8099@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1172 Lines: 30 > I'll NAK any external 'download area' (and I told that Andi > before): tools/perf/event-tables/ or so is a good enough > 'download area' with fast enough update cycles. The proposal was to put it on kernel.org, similar to how external firmware blobs are distributed. CPU event lists are data sheets, so are like firmware. They do not follow the normal kernel code licenses. They are not source code. They cannot be reviewed in the normal way. > If any 'update' of event descriptions is needed it can > happen through the distro package mechanism, or via a > simple 'git pull' if it's compiled directly. > > Lets not overengineer this with any dependence on an > external site and with a separate update mechanism - lets > just get the tables into tools/ and see it from there... That experiment has been already done for oprofile, didn't work very well. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/