Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Aug 1999 16:31:03 +0100 (GMT) | From | Tim Waugh <> | Subject | Re: [patch] i386 longstanding irqs may be mistaken with spurious irqs |
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On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> We still don't know how the interrupt got generated in the parallel port, > but IMO it would be better to handle the case where there is an interrupt > pending for the device we are going to irq-probe.
When we disable irqs (nAck- or nFault-triggered), a currently-active interrupt line causes another interrupt to be generated, to avoid races. It sounds like that's what's happening, in which case there I don't think there's really a lot we can do about it.
Tim. */
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