Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> | Subject | Re: floppy irq unregisters itself? | Date | Sun, 19 Jan 1997 13:36:32 -0500 (EST) |
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> Is there a reason why the floppy driver unregisters it's irq handler when > the motor goes off?
IMHO this is proper behaviour - it also makes PnP support easier :-)
> This has the side-effect of irq 6 not showing up in /proc/interrupts, only > when there is floppy activity.
A patch went out long ago to show past activity in /proc/interrupts whether the IRQ was in use or not.
The PnP patch provides /proc/irq for tracking usage alone, which makes more sense IMHO.
-- Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net Linux Plug-and-Play Kernel Project http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/ XFree86 Matrox Team http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html
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