[PATCH] irqchip/riscv-aplic: Register the driver prior to device creation

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, Jan 15 2026 at 16:31, Yicong Yang wrote:
> so based on above, if we use async_wq (with async_schedule* APIs) in
> acpi_scan_clear_dep_queue() for creating these devices, the issue
> could be solved since we're sure to have these devices before entering
> userspace, since the barrier of async_synchronize_full(). This should be
> a solution with a conceptual support and I did a quick test on our
> platform it solves the issue.

Sounds about right to me. The drivers core and ACPI folks might have
opinions though :)

> As for the order of console_on_rootfs()/async_synchronize_full(),
> though our issue is not directly caused by it, it will cause the
> same issue (by the console open time the async probing maybe not
> finised) theoretically and needs to be fixed, is it?

Yes, that should move past the synchronization point.

Thanks,

        tglx