[PATCH 2/2] ath79: mikrotik: Change the moment of routerboot partition parser init

[Thibaut]

Hi,

> Le 16 nov. 2021 à 10:46, Denis K <denis281089 at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> I got it! _exit macro of rb_hardconfig_init seems to cause this kernel
> panic. Here is a patch.

Thanks; indeed that’s logical: functions marked as __exit are discarded when the module is built into the kernel: they’re no longer available when the mtd_notifier executes the remove() callback. I missed that. Since these are very small, I agree it’s ok to remove the __exit qualifier.

I see the same rationale for removing the __init qualifier from the init functions since the mtd notifier could be called at any point during kernel execution, but that bothers me a bit more because these are somewhat large functions. Then again it’s a tradeoff between doing the right thing (using a notifier) vs using a workaround (late_initcall()). I think it’s acceptable.

Anyway, I’ve refactored the patch with your changes and I added a note and edited the commit message about the point above; see attachment below. Hopefully this one is good to go :)

You are the author of this patch and you did all the heavy lifting (thanks again for that), so if you have no further changes/comments I’d suggest you submit this as a v2. I’ll ACK it then (please CC-me - this should be automatic with my SoB-line added).

Thanks,
Thibaut

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