Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf/e6500: Make event translations available in sysfs | From | Scott Wood <> | Date | Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:19:58 -0600 |
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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
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