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The main purpose of this paper is to partly answer a question of L. Z. Yang [Israel J. Math. 147 (2005), 359-370] by proving that every entire solution f of the differential equation $f'-e^{P(z)}f = 1$ has infinite order and its hyperorder is a positive integer or infinity, where P is a nonconstant entire function of order less than 1/2. As an application, we obtain a uniqueness theorem for entire functions related to a conjecture of Brück [Results Math. 30 (1996), 21-24].