netdev - Re: [PATCH] stmmac: fix sleep inside atomic

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Date:	Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:11:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	peppe.cavallaro@...com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stmmac: fix sleep inside atomic

From: Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@...com>
Date: Mon,  6 Sep 2010 05:06:19 +0200

> We cannot use spinlock when kmalloc is invoked with
> GFP_KERNEL flag because it can sleep.
> So this patch reviews the usage of spinlock within the
> stmmac_resume function avoing this bug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>

Applied, but you are extremely guilty of the sin of omission
here.

Why in the world did you not at least CC: Jiri, the person
who reported this problem?  You should do that at a minimum
when someone reports a problem with code you are fixing.

And in this case he definitely deserves a

Reported-by:

tag in the commit message as well.

Please don't fail to acknowledge a reporter's efforts like
this ever again.
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