Messages in this thread | | | From | Len Brown <> | Subject | Re: spurious kernel error | Date | Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:25:06 -0400 |
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On Friday 30 March 2007 03:36, Zach wrote:
> kern.log:Mar 29 23:44:36 netrek kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
A spurious interrupt isn't necessarily a "spurious kernel error", it means that the kernel went to service an interrupt and didn't find any sources. In PIC mode, these are registered on IRQ7. Could be a race condition in a device driver that is exposed from multiple drivers sharing the same IRQ.
-Len
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