Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf/e6500: Make event translations available in sysfs

* Scott Wood [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 21:40 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:

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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. [...]

Fortunately perf is not an external firmware blob ...

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[...] CPU event lists are data sheets, so are like 
firmware. [...]

What an absolute, idiotic, nonsense argument!

CPU event lists are human readable descriptions for events. 
If they aren't then they have no place in tooling.

Treating them like firmware is as backwards as it gets.

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[...]  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?

Andi is making idiotic arguments, instead of implementing 
the technically sane solution.

Thanks,

	Ingo