Re: 2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

[folkert@vanheusden.com (Folkert van Heusden)]

> >>My linux laptop says:
> >>irq 5: nobody cared!
> >(...)
> >>Does anyone care? :-)
> >Well, I'm getting similar stack traces with my system and those are sure
> >scary, but it seems that my e-mails to the list are simply ignored,
> >unfortunately.
> I posted a similar thing, but the problem is not that you get the 
> message. It means your hardware generated an unexpected interrupt. The 
> kernel is reporting that fact as it should.
> The problem I had (not resolved) is that after the message
>   DISABLING IRQ NN
> I continued to get interrupts! So the logic to disable the IRQ is not 
> working correctly.

In my case, the interrupt should NOT be disabled as my WIFI-interface is
behind it (via ndiswrappers).

> as you note, because the hardware is generating the condition, no one 
> seems to care, even though there clearly is a problem in the disable 
> logic. I found a way to fix my hardware thanks to some pointers I got, 
> so I'm running, but I haven't heard that the base problem is fixed.

Aight.


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