netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: irda: Replace mdelay with usleep_range in stir421x_fw

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Message-ID: <865ad04e-ccbc-6144-c6ea-fc39790f861f@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:20:22 +0800
From:   Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, samuel@...tiz.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, johan@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com,
        davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: irda: Replace mdelay with usleep_range in
 stir421x_fw_upload



On 2018/4/11 16:17, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 04:11:00PM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
>>
>> On 2018/4/11 16:03, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 03:17:10PM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
>>>> On 2018/4/11 14:41, Greg KH wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 09:29:34AM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
>>>>>> stir421x_fw_upload() is never called in atomic context.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The call chain ending up at stir421x_fw_upload() is:
>>>>>> [1] stir421x_fw_upload() <- stir421x_patch_device() <- irda_usb_probe()
>>>>>>
>>>>>> irda_usb_probe() is set as ".probe" in struct usb_driver.
>>>>>> This function is not called in atomic context.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Despite never getting called from atomic context, stir421x_fw_upload()
>>>>>> calls mdelay() to busily wait.
>>>>>> This is not necessary and can be replaced with usleep_range() to
>>>>>> avoid busy waiting.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.
>>>>>> And I also manually check it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>     drivers/staging/irda/drivers/irda-usb.c | 2 +-
>>>>>>     1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>> Please, at the very least, work off of Linus's tree.  There is no
>>>>> drivers/staging/irda/ anymore :)
>>>>>
>>>> Okay, sorry.
>>>> Could you please recommend me a right tree or its git address?
>>> Have you looked in the MAINTAINERS file?  Worst case, always use
>>> linux-next.
>>>
>>> greg k-h
>> Oh, sorry, I did notice the git tree in the MAINTAINERS file.
>> I always used linux-stable.
> linux-stable is almost never the tree to use as it is almost always
> 12000 patches behind what is in Linus's tree and about 20000 changes
> behind linux-next.
>

Okay, I now know why many of my patches were not replied.
I should choose correct tree in the MAINTAINERS file.
Thanks :)


Best wishes,
Jia-Ju Bai