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SubjectRe: 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.

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