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Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 17:29:21 -0600 (MDT)
From: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
To: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>, Rui Qi <qirui.001@bytedance.com>, 
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    Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Jingwei Wang <wangjingwei@iscas.ac.cn>, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: hwprobe: Register unaligned probes before
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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