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

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Jul 15 2008 - 16:44:43 EST


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.
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