Re: 2.6.8-rc3-mm2

Ingo Molnar
2004-08-10T13:48:27Z

* Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> > 3: 251 IO-APIC-edge serial
> >
> > this is from a box that uses the serial line only for the kernel
> > console.
>
> If the IRQ is claimed, userspace has opened the port. Is a getty
> running on the port? If so, it would've written some messages to the
> port, which would have caused these interrupts.

no getty but i forgot about my rc.local writing an 'box has booted up'
message to the serial console.

Ingo