RE: [PATCH] LoongArch: Provide kernel fpu functions

[David Laight]

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> Also, if the old world is taken into consideration (which we normally
> have the luxury of not having to do so), consider Ruoyao's case where a
> commercial partner of Loongson wants to do this with the vendor kernel,
> but the symbols are exported GPL -- in this case I doubt the GPL marking
> will remain, thus creating inconsistency between upstream and vendor
> kernels, and community distros are going to complain loudly about the
> need to patch things. It's probably best to avoid all of this upfront.

It is pretty easy to load a non-GPL module into a distro-built
kernel and call GPL-only functions.
(And without doing horrid things with kallsyms.)
As soon as you actually need to do one, adding others isn't a problem.

	David

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