From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from na01-by2-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-by2on0139.outbound.protection.outlook.com [207.46.100.139]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5723B1A03C8 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:20:13 +1100 (AEDT) Message-ID: <1423613998.2713.16.camel@aoeu.buserror.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf/e6500: Make event translations available in sysfs From: Scott Wood To: Andi Kleen Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:19:58 -0600 In-Reply-To: <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> <20150209204019.GA13991@two.firstfloor.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: Tom Huynh , Peter Zijlstra , Jiri Olsa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acme@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Ingo Molnar List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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