Re: git: f0d4c2afd65f - main - pmc(3): Correct some typos in event descriptions

From: Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 13:32:32 UTC
On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 13:41, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > ---
> >   lib/libpmc/pmu-events/arch/x86/broadwell/pipeline.json        | 4 ++--
> >   lib/libpmc/pmu-events/arch/x86/broadwellde/pipeline.json      | 4 ++--
> >   lib/libpmc/pmu-events/arch/x86/broadwellx/pipeline.json       | 4 ++--
> >   lib/libpmc/pmu-events/arch/x86/cascadelakex/uncore-other.json | 2 +-
> >   lib/libpmc/pmu-events/arch/x86/silvermont/pipeline.json       | 4 ++--
> >   lib/libpmc/pmu-events/arch/x86/skylakex/uncore-other.json     | 2 +-
>
> I think these files are actually 3rd party (and should really be under
> contrib/ in that case?) so probably shouldn't be changed.  Maybe you can
> send the changes upstream to Linux instead?

Yes, these come from Linux and the fixes should be sent there. The
process is a bit cumbersome but at least well documented; I've done it
for a couple of pmu-events files before, e.g.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=28396b7df09b9565f404591c9945eac43526cb3f

The process is documented in the Linux source tree at
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst