Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:16:14 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: nhorman@tuxdriver.com, simon@fire.lp0.eu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
	000000000000000e (reset_prng_context)
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* David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> 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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