Re: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:56 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> Is the VIA IRQ fixup related to the "spurious interrupts" messages in
> any way?  Googling the 2.4 threads on the issue gave me the impression
> that it's related to broken hardware.  I think excessive disk activity
> might trigger it.

If you need the VIA IRQ fixup and don't have it, I would expect
some interrupt to be routed to the wrong IRQ.  That might give
you a "spurious interrupt" on the wrong IRQ, but your device would
probably just not work at all.


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