Re: [PATCH] perf vendor events: Remove 'type' field from mapfiles

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Feb 26 2021 - 10:50:25 EST


On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 09:08:17PM +0800, John Garry wrote:
> Included for each CPU entry in the per-arch mapfile.csv file is a 'type'
> field.

I don't like it because this will make the mapfile incompatible with
what download.01.org uses. We originally derived it from that.

It would be ok if it fixed something serious, but as it seems to be
more cosmetic I don't think there's a good reason to devivate.

-Andi