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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:59:33 +0200
To: Eric Altendorf <EricAltendorf@orst.edu>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.25: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 09:52:28AM -0700, Eric Altendorf wrote:
> 
> This is my first time trying to report a kernel problem, so I have no 
> idea if I'm doing it the right way or not.  I also don't understand 
> the problem; maybe it's my own fault.  Here it goes, though:

This is my first time trying to answer to a kernel report problem :)
 
> [1.] One line summary of the problem:    
> 
> spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. (during heavy disk reads)

There were a discussion about this warning some time ago.
As far as I remember, it's just a interrupt which is not registered by
any peripheral.
this is not a kernel bug, just a buggy hardware.

-- 
Tab
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