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On 2017/6/22 14:08, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We should probably add a might_sleep() to ioremap() to prevent these
> bugs in the future.
I think it is right to do this.
And it will be very useful to summarize common kernel interface
functions which may sleep into a list. When writing a new driver, the
developer can refer to this list to reduce or avoid sleep-in-atomic bugs.

>
> This bug is eight years old. You can report it, but it's going to hard
> to get anyone to fix it. I sometimes ignore ancient bugs. On the other
> hand, netxen is fairly well supported so it doesn't hurt to try.
>
> I try to report bugs as soon as they are introduced. I report it to
> the author and CC the relevant list. If people don't respond to my
> email after a month then I complain again.
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>

Thanks for your helpful advice.

Thanks,
Jia-Ju Bai

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