Re: /proc/interrupts question

Etienne Lorrain (lorrain@fb.sony.de)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 17:24:10 +0001


Hi,

> An IRQ might be received and not displayed at /proc/interrupts if it
> didn't register a driver.

Yes, also not displayed if the driver has been removed (module...)

> However, if there's an IRQ and a driver at /proc/interrupts,
> a driver has been registered. This means that if a total
> of 0 is being displayed, we can safely assume no interrupts have been
> received by that particular CPU.

Yes, no IRQ since the booting message "INIT_IRQ".

Etienne.
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-- ide1: reset: success
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