Re: 2.6.10: irq 12 nobody cared!

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Feb 17 2005 - 19:54:04 EST




On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Joshua Kwan wrote:

> > What was the previous kernel you ran on that machine, just out of
> > interest? If it hasn't happened before, it would be interesting to know
> > when it started happening...
>
> It used to be running 2.4.27, where there was no evidence of such a bug
> occurring. I'd rather not bother with trying to find out what's going on
> if it'll require me to reboot with all sorts prerelease snapshots, since
> this is my web server, mail server, etc...

2.4.x won't even report that condition. So if it's still working in 2.6.x,
then you can probably pretty much assume that the problem was always
there, but 2.4.x just never talked about it.

Linus
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