Remove an inaccurate paragraph about values in the attr.config field. This information was never true in any released kernel; it somehow snuck into the manpage because it is still described this way in tools/perf/design.txt in the kernel source tree. Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2 index cccb880..003a8b2 100644 --- a/man2/perf_event_open.2 +++ b/man2/perf_event_open.2 @@ -352,12 +352,6 @@ fields are also taken into account in cases where 64 bits is not enough to fully specify the event. The encoding of these fields are event dependent. -The most significant bit (bit 63) of -.I config -signifies CPU-specific (raw) counter configuration data; -if the most significant bit is unset, the next 7 bits are an event -type and the rest of the bits are the event identifier. - There are various ways to set the .I config field that are dependent on the value of the previously -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
