Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at000000000000000e (reset_prng_context)

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jul 18 2008 - 18:17:49 EST



* David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:33:04 +0200
>
> > i have just triggered this crash too. Please, when you know about bootup
> > crashes in your code send a patch to the lkml thread so that people can
> > apply it and have a working system.
> >
> > Note that the new crypto/prng.c driver has very bad quality:
> >
> > total: 45 errors, 21 warnings, 1 checks, 410 lines checked
> >
> > It has tons of completely unacceptable code mistakes in it.
>
> I think we should merge new drivers as aggressively as possible.

Correct.

Ingo
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