Re: [PATCH] i386 reduce spurious interrupt noise

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 21:13, Nathan Bryant wrote:
> Right, spurious interrupts aren't a big deal on i386. They happen now 
> and then with some devices because some hardware timing tolerances are a 
> little too tight. 

It also happens on a lot of hardware on the odd instance a non IRQ code
path clears down an interrupt just as its being raised. IDE does it now
and then for example.

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