Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:44:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:44:21 -0500 Received: from s142-179-222-244.ab.hsia.telus.net ([142.179.222.244]:21304 "EHLO bluetooth.WNI.AD") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:44:21 -0500 Message-ID: <3E308120.1090704@WirelessNetworksInc.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:56:16 -0700 From: Herman Oosthuysen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zsolt Babak CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 ???? References: <3E2C8EFF.6020707@tin.it> <20030121235339.GB4794@yzero> <20030123221428.GA31588@gandalf.sch.bme.hu> In-Reply-To: <20030123221428.GA31588@gandalf.sch.bme.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Jan 2003 23:53:32.0500 (UTC) FILETIME=[A2B3B140:01C2C33A] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/