Jean Delvare wrote: [snip] > Never had any report about this. Can't tell whether this has a chance to > be fixed in 2.6.11+ without the kernel panic data. hi here is what i get with CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT_LIGHT=y .. i2c /dev entries driver i2c-parport: using default base 0x378 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000378 pgd = c0004000 [00000378] *pgd=00000000 Internal error: Oops: f5 [#1] CPU: 0 PC is at $a+0x38/0x88 LR is at 0x378 pc : [<c018bca4>] lr : [<00000378>] Not tainted sp : c0a77fa4 ip : 00000000 fp : c0a77fb8 r10: 00000000 r9 : 00000000 r8 : 00000000 r7 : c001dee8 r6 : 00000014 r5 : c0262fc0 r4 : 00000001 r3 : c0262fc0 r2 : 00000000 r1 : 00000001 r0 : 00000000 Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 Segment kernel Control: 397F Table: A0004000 DAC: 0000001D Process swapper (pid: 1, stack limit = 0xc0a760fc) Stack: (0xc0a77fa4 to 0xc0a78000) 7fa0: c0262fc0 c0305e88 c0a77fd4 c0a77fbc c001820c c018bc78 c001dec4 7fc0: c0a76000 00000000 c0a77ff4 c0a77fd8 c001e200 c0018170 00000000 00000000 7fe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 c0a77ff8 c0037384 c001e184 00000000 00000000 Backtrace: [<c018bc6c>] ($a+0x0/0x88) from [<c001820c>] ($a+0xa8/0x138) r5 = C0305E88 r4 = C0262FC0 [<c0018164>] ($a+0x0/0x138) from [<c001e200>] ($a+0x88/0x174) r6 = 00000000 r5 = C0A76000 r4 = C001DEC4 [<c001e178>] ($a+0x0/0x174) from [<c0037384>] (do_exit+0x0/0x978) r7 = 00000000 r6 = 00000000 r5 = 00000000 r4 = 00000000 Code: e593e000 e0803005 e5d3c001 e5d31002 (e7de200c) <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!