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

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 01:49 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 01:44:07PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > > Note that the new crypto/prng.c driver has very bad quality:
> > I think we should merge new drivers as aggressively as possible.
> Well, I don't have strong opinion about this exact statement, but
> Ingo, COULD YOU PLEASE [...] STOP THIS
> CHECKPATCH.PL-AS-INDICATOR HORSESHIT !

Coding style conformity (easy and clinical) and quality
(hard and emotional) are only weakly correlated in software.

I think that Ingo sometimes conflates them and he should be more
selective when using the "quality" term.

I think he recognizes this, he just hasn't done much about it.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/22/307

Ingo, could you please just substitute conformity for quality
in these sorts of posts?  Perhaps you could also change the
name of your code-quality script to style-conformity?

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