oops w/ 'SMBus nForce2 adapter at 5500' as minor 1' (Examined/Solved - lm_sensors 2.7.0 Linux 2.4.20)

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I get lastest version from cvs. After compile and install i do reboot. This is

what i find in dmesg:

[...]

i2c-core.o: i2c core module version 2.7.0 (20021208)

i2c-dev.o: i2c /dev entries driver module version 2.7.0 (20021208)

i2c-nforce2.o version 2.7.0 (20021208)

i2c-dev.o: Registered 'SMBus nForce2 adapter at 5000' as minor 0

i2c-nforce2.o: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x5000

i2c-dev.o: Registered 'SMBus nForce2 adapter at 5500' as minor 1

i2c-nforce2.o: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x5500

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000

printing eip:

e1de259f

*pde = 00000000

Oops: 0000

CPU: 0

EIP: 0010:[<e1de259f>] Tainted: P

EFLAGS: 00013286

eax: 00000000 ebx: d8e24f40 ecx: 00000000 edx: d8e24000

esi: d92d02c0 edi: d92d02c0 ebp: c158e300 esp: d60a7f30

ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018

Process sensors-detect (pid: 1133, stackpage=d60a7000)

Stack: d6445580 00000000 d6445580 c01363ee d6445580 d92d02c0 d92d02c0 d6445580

ffffffe9 c0134b63 d6445580 d92d02c0 00008000 dd8b7000 bffff620 bffff4a8

c0134a87 d8059740 c158e300 00008000 d60a7f84 d8059740 c158e300 dd8b7000

Call Trace: [<c01363ee>] [<c0134b63>] [<c0134a87>] [<c0134e23>] [<c010733f>]

[...] --- this may be a problem with CVS or with the new driver, not sure.

Be sure you also have i2c CVS and you rmmoded all old i2c modules.

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closing old ticket, no followups in my records

MDS 6/26/04