Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8

Logan Gunthorpe
2017-06-13T04:29:39Z

On 12/06/17 10:18 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> What test causes so many major numbers to be allocated? Is this
> in-kernel test code? Do you really have a system that requires so many
> different drivers that all want a dynamic char major?

This is a 0day kernel robot test. I'm not sure the motivations of its
design but it seems to be similar to an allyesconfig. So all/most
modules are compiled in and allocating their char device regions on boot
of a qemu instance.

Logan