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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: "Sebastian Andrzej Siewior" <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	"Greg KH" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Rik van Riel" <riel@surriel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
	"Ard Biesheuvel" <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	"Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Nicolai Stange" <nstange@suse.de>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>, "X86 ML" <x86@kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu: Remove the _GPL from the kernel_fpu_begin/end() export
Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 18:55:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190502165520.GC6565@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrWTCB9xLVdKCODghpeQpJ_3Rz3OwE8FB+5hjYXMYwYPLg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 09:29:01AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> I'm not saying that we should export things for ZFS's benefit.  But,
> as far as I know, _GPL means "this interface is sufficiently specific
> to Linux details that we think that any user must be a derived work".
> I don't think that kernel_fpu_begin() is an example of that.

But it is sufficiently specific. It is present on x86 and s390 only -
other arches don't have it.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-02 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-02 14:42 [PATCH] x86/fpu: Remove the _GPL from the kernel_fpu_begin/end() export Andy Lutomirski
2019-05-02 15:40 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-05-02 16:29   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-05-02 16:55     ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2019-05-03 17:21       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-03 18:07         ` Borislav Petkov
2019-05-03 18:54           ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-05-03 19:07             ` Borislav Petkov
2019-05-03 18:49   ` Jiri Kosina
2019-05-04  0:47     ` Ingo Molnar
2019-05-04  2:28       ` Sebastian Gottschall
2019-05-04  6:40         ` Greg KH
2019-05-05 16:05         ` Rik van Riel
2019-05-05 19:09           ` Jiri Kosina
2019-05-04  7:26     ` Jiri Kosina
2019-05-07 10:31       ` David Laight
2019-05-08 12:28         ` Sebastian Gottschall
2019-05-08 12:51           ` Greg KH

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