From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2ADCD3A875D; Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1786727046; cv=none; b=BgIZs+6A4FH0o++YlWoaRRR1pKkk6lbkBfsIBNplegxVs+As7brsvRLRolnLKwNgLVu1kw+rka6QIGEUtwGLTPJcgIddo4FcpIa6qXOp2ELdQUfu741KwuN2VcwXqbX0tRUiDbIRxjcFovBOG4SdC3K/h9n28eQdu6O6LiuKENQ= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1786727046; c=relaxed/simple; bh=OjBE2D9pUlUHODDaomVZh4XD0ODYN275WagDkEPljJk=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=ucoC6TZ4C5eFe9CQyza7YpemWj/1MMElsbKdrKy1fg0tRLzztxDqoLIOsUpEUmLsyCRApRsO/amWnYE7GydzHNyqg2W972NpakN26sKIaLFAZuhc2fl3NFITN+Ocq/izwkUXRwoePnEGBiNAHStUy/s9lRfe1Op5qJFVS9dAKWk= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=Pu6YM4nt; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="Pu6YM4nt" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F055C1F000E9; Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:04:03 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1786727044; bh=4Pp8s4B2T9IQ9eJkN9kBjdme+RhnxVC9qs6XRtDa230=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=Pu6YM4ntzNwOqjDtVUKGkKhu1LyH2oMtpEW5N5p6/M8vY82XCe8WsT3KSfPdOMhAv OkaWVCn6j+7TGzQza+1dXqcgoOVHcbyunNaqXL80OjcKolFU4P+C9f5O9HyK9D8HCk MISHNIwnQTNE8mW9ttRrRIlRQHOtIEeMcAHFiBnP3JLPT3mJPoyJnSJFZxfLN14/Sm 5/sHtppq//1OPRVl5GXB/x5zYCuXVQkSHQGpbzquYKqqcnEXf5psmN9FTLyGVmPeJm PPPRkgQl4DdbOku5REd9mWXqnNEi5702k2l3kRuCinUHzMXGo4DVRInfDHwD30XOfG G/uVVNBH1BtiQ== Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:04:00 -0600 (MDT) From: Paul Walmsley To: Geert Uytterhoeven cc: Paul Walmsley , Nam Cao , Rui Qi , linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, Palmer Dabbelt , Albert Ou , Alexandre Ghiti , Kees Cook , Jingwei Wang , open list , Linux-Next Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: hwprobe: Register unaligned probes before usermode In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <1d36c93a-200e-3105-8ea2-36f20c382644@kernel.org> References: <20260721150511.1607105-1-qirui.001@bytedance.com> <8884ef1b-9fd2-7300-d7f1-38d061cabf0c@kernel.org> <871pcaa2g6.fsf@yellow.woof> <5a181a44-4f25-6cff-fe17-ac1995da8ebb@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi Geert, On Fri, 14 Aug 2026, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2026 at 10:45, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Aug 2026 at 01:30, Paul Walmsley wrote: > > > On Fri, 7 Aug 2026, Nam Cao wrote: > > > > Paul Walmsley 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. > > > > This commit is now commit 994dad686e755477 in riscv/fixes. > > However, riscv/for-next contains the similar but empty commit > > acf3fcb5e9199cc9. Presumably this is the result of a bad rebasing of > > for-next on top of fixes? > > The empty commit was rebased, and is now commit 4e864f1c3d8d147b. > Please drop it (it breaks my scripting ;-). Fixed! Sorry about that, - Paul