From: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
To: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>, Rui Qi <qirui.001@bytedance.com>
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.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, 07 Aug 2026 08:07:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871pcaa2g6.fsf@yellow.woof> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8884ef1b-9fd2-7300-d7f1-38d061cabf0c@kernel.org>
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.
Nam
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-07 6:07 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2026-08-07 23:29 ` Paul Walmsley
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