From: Herman Oosthuysen <Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com>
To: Zsolt Babak <zod@sch.bme.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 ????
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:56:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E308120.1090704@WirelessNetworksInc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030123221428.GA31588@gandalf.sch.bme.hu>
A glitch on any interrupt line, will cause IRQ7 to trigger on the 8259A.
It is a documented 'feature' and is not really useful, but software
has to handle it gracefully.
Zsolt Babak wrote:
>>i get it on my thinkpad 560e when using a linksys ne2k pcmcia card. i only
>>get the message once, and it's triggered after a few seconds of high
>>throughput (fast, fd).
>>
>
> Same here with an Acer TravelMate laptop, with an smc pcmcia network card. The
> message occures only once at high network load. But the system is quite
> stable, so I didn't bother to track this down...
>
> Oh, and the laptop is based on Ali, not on VIA chips.
>
> Zsolt.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-23 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-21 0:06 Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 ???? AnonimoVeneziano
2003-01-21 0:36 ` David D. Hagood
2003-01-21 1:43 ` Coax
2003-01-21 3:20 ` Alan
2003-01-21 5:22 ` Tupshin Harper
2003-01-21 7:00 ` Paul
2003-01-22 20:06 ` Ville Hallivuori
2003-01-22 20:53 ` Pavel Janík
2003-01-22 21:16 ` AnonimoVeneziano
2003-01-21 13:37 ` AnonimoVeneziano
2003-01-21 13:54 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-01-21 23:53 ` Tom Vier
2003-01-23 22:14 ` Zsolt Babak
2003-01-23 23:56 ` Herman Oosthuysen [this message]
2003-01-24 19:54 ` AnonimoVeneziano
2003-01-24 21:07 ` Herman Oosthuysen
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