Re: [PATCH V2] LoongArch: Provide kernel fpu functions

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 04:10:44PM +0800, WANG Xuerui wrote:
> again, and making the loongarch FPU helpers GPL-only works for me. However
> there's probably another question that Ruoyao pointed out: do we want to
> mark the neon/altivec/s390x helpers GPL-only right away? IMO this particular
> feature is not inherently arch-specific (the same would have to happen for
> every arch with optionally enabled extra state and instructions, not limited
> to FPU actually) so availability of such feature should preferably be made
> symmetric over arches.

In general we should, and all new code most.  For existing code please
contact the relevant maintainers first.