Messages in this thread | | 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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