From: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
To: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>, Rui Qi <qirui.001@bytedance.com>,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
Jingwei Wang <wangjingwei@iscas.ac.cn>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: hwprobe: Register unaligned probes before usermode
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 17:29:21 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5a181a44-4f25-6cff-fe17-ac1995da8ebb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871pcaa2g6.fsf@yellow.woof>
On Fri, 7 Aug 2026, Nam Cao wrote:
> Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org> writes:
> > Now that we've queued a patch to get rid of the async hwprobe
> > infrastructure, is this patch still needed?
>
> Yes. Removing async probe only ensures probe is finished before the
> kernel is done booting.
>
> But there are usermode helpers which run while the kernel is still booting.
> This patch ensures probe is done before that.
Okay, thanks for taking a look.
Thanks Rui Qi for the patch; queued for v7.2-rc with a cc: to stable.
- Paul
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-21 15:05 [PATCH] riscv: hwprobe: Register unaligned probes before usermode Rui Qi
2026-07-22 7:52 ` Nam Cao
2026-07-28 3:57 ` Rui Qi
2026-08-06 18:50 ` Paul Walmsley
2026-08-07 6:07 ` Nam Cao
2026-08-07 23:29 ` Paul Walmsley [this message]
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