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Message-ID: <1423613998.2713.16.camel@aoeu.buserror.net> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:19:58 -0600 From: Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com> To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Tom Huynh <tom.huynh@...escale.com>, "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@...radead.org>, <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>, <acme@...nel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <paulus@...ba.org>, "Jiri Olsa" <jolsa@...hat.com>, <mingo@...hat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf/e6500: Make event translations available in sysfs On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 21:40 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > 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. How is it different from describing registers and bits in driver header files? What does it mean to talk about a license on information, rather than the expression of information? -Scott -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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