Re: [PATCH] riscv: hwprobe: Register unaligned probes before usermode

[Paul Walmsley]

On Fri, 7 Aug 2026, Nam Cao wrote:

> Paul Walmsley <pjw@xxxxxxxxxx> 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