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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Tom Huynh <tom.huynh@freescale.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, acme@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	paulus@samba.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf/e6500: Make event translations available in sysfs
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 21:40:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150209204019.GA13991@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150209132557.GA8099@gmail.com>

> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-09 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-06 22:43 [PATCH 0/3] Add e6500 perf events to sysfs and update perf doc Tom Huynh
2015-02-06 22:43 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf/e6500: Make event translations available in sysfs Tom Huynh
2015-02-09 10:02   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-09 10:07     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-09 12:11       ` Jiri Olsa
2015-02-09 13:25         ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-09 20:40           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2015-02-11  0:19             ` Scott Wood
2015-02-18 20:56               ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-18 21:31                 ` Andi Kleen
2015-02-16 16:10             ` Tom Huynh
2015-03-27 21:34               ` Kim Phillips
2015-03-28  0:32                 ` Andi Kleen
2015-02-06 22:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf/e6500: Create a sysfs format entry for e6500 events Tom Huynh
2015-02-06 22:43 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf/doc: Update perf_event_attr struct Tom Huynh

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