[PATCH] riscv: hwprobe: Register unaligned probes before usermode
Paul Walmsley
pjw at kernel.org
Fri Aug 7 16:29:21 PDT 2026
On Fri, 7 Aug 2026, Nam Cao wrote:
> Paul Walmsley <pjw at 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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