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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:35:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: [2.4.20][2.5.60] /proc/interrupts comparsion - two irqs for i8042?
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On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Randy.Dunlap wrote:

> Do you have a PS/2 mouse enabled/configured in 2.4?
> I do, and it shows this on 2.4.20:
> 
>   0:   78505022          XT-PIC  timer
>   1:     305438          XT-PIC  keyboard
>   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>   3:    2013477          XT-PIC  xirc2ps_cs
>   5:          0          XT-PIC  usb-uhci
>   8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
>  10:          4          XT-PIC  i82365
>  11:    2188569          XT-PIC  i82365, cs46xx
>  12:    1555382          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
>  14:     872963          XT-PIC  ide0
>  15:          3          XT-PIC  ide1
> 
> and the driver code certainly requests IRQ 12 for the PS/2 mouse
> when it's configured.

I would agree that the identification is far more useful in 2.4, but it
still takes the same number of IRQ.

Could I ask why the usage information has been de-clarified without
starting a flame war on the politics of the change? I assume there's a
good reason for not just identifying the usage to those who haven't
memorized the PC interrupt defaults.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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