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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Zach <netrek@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: spurious kernel error
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:25:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703301525.06460.lenb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ecfa260c0703300036u5d82389apaaa735ba7de5a3bb@mail.gmail.com>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-30 19:26 UTC|newest]
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2007-03-30 7:36 spurious kernel error Zach
2007-03-30 19:25 ` Len Brown [this message]
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